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shockey80

(4,379 posts)
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 02:52 PM Feb 2018

What about the school buses?

You can arm the teachers, you can have security guards, it will not solve the problem. Someone with an assault rifle can pick another target. They can walk onto a loaded school bus and kill everyone. What are you going to do put an armed guard on every bus.

The American people have lost control. We are no longer making any sense. A madness has spread throughout our entire country.

Guns are the problem. All stop.

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Vinca

(50,261 posts)
2. What about the grocery stores? What about the movie theaters?
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 02:55 PM
Feb 2018

The local hospital? The bus stop? Walking down the country lane with your dog? This isn't something that is happening only in schools.

demigoddess

(6,640 posts)
8. I lived in Spain when Franco was in power. there were armed men with
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 03:20 PM
Feb 2018

machine guns on a lot of corners. Not a comfortable feeling.

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
4. The single point of entry to the school
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 03:07 PM
Feb 2018

with lines like at airports to pass through metal detectors.

Mass shooter never has to enter the school... we have conveniently grouped all of the targets into a tightly confined space to make the mass killing even easier... much like Las Vegas.

BTW... the new/old term for the 15 to 19 year olds... target demographic of the NRA outreach

hunter

(38,310 posts)
6. Armor too! And bullet resistant glass!
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 03:18 PM
Feb 2018

The oil companies would love it too, these monstrously heavy buses sucking up the diesel fuel.

DrDan

(20,411 posts)
10. none of these folks calling for arming teachers have ever walked into school hallway between classes
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 03:22 PM
Feb 2018

chaos

oxbow

(2,034 posts)
12. Dont forget the crossing guards!
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 04:19 PM
Feb 2018

And also, guards to guard the entrance to the school. The absurdity of people pushing this idea can’t really be stressed enough. Debunk them, mock them, and support the kids.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
13. Bus stops must have pill boxes!!!
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 04:23 PM
Feb 2018

I used to wait at the bus stop for up to an hour, fully exposed to an attack. Scared the hell out of me. Either construct pill boxes, or at the very least place tanks at all the stops.

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