What's wrong with that as a strategy? If we want to screen STUDENTS, who are the shooters 100% of the time, we have to SCREEN them.
Staggered start times are a good strategy, IMO. Businesses use them commonly for traffic management. \
I think it's worth looking at, for big schools. Prevents too much backlog in screening, and prevents a vulnerable crowd from forming at the screening points that becomes a BIGGER target of unscreened people with nefarious intentions.
I will do whatever it takes to keep kids safe. But I don't see how turning our schools into prisons is a viable option.
When I was a teen in the 80's school already felt like an oppressive prison to me. I was kicked out of two schools, went to a continuation school and ended up graduating two years late from night school.
I hated it. And I didn't learn.
Once I went to community college which was open and felt free, I excelled and ultimately went to law school.
The thought of how we are turning schools into actual prisons and treating kids as prisoners all ready to shiv a prison guard, feels like insanity to me.
We need to do better than this. We need to stop glorifying mass murderers. We need to provide our citizens with low cost, high quality health care, including mental health treatment, like every other civilized nation does, instead of having a profit-based system that punishes people for seeking help. And we need to stop melding our national identity with gun ownership and acting like that's not one of the main issues.
And caveat. I am not against gun ownership. I've enjoyed shooting. I am not for a gun ban. But we have a culture problem. We've allowed a lobbying group to link gun possession in the American psyche to faith and guts and liberty. To us against them. That has caused a massive uptick in gun ownership, and an increase in ownership of the types of guns that allow for more mass casualties.
When I was a kid most people bought and had regular old handguns and hunting rifles. Now everyone has to have 9 millimeters and AK-everythings as if they're soldiers or cops.
As a result of this national obsession, there is access to dangerous weapons by mentally disturbed people whose relatives, in past years, might have prevented such access. Today, gun ideology has led to people with a troubled child or other relative, stubbornly refusing to limit access because any common sense limit to access of firearms, even voluntary, is considered the taking of a right or the destruction of identity, nowadays, instead of just common sense.
Maybe we need to start seeing more people losing everything they have in lawsuits from victims' families because they had firearms in the home despite knowing "Johnny" was disturbed.
We need to change our culture. Guns are tools or sporting equipment, not a badge of honor or an emblematic symbol of identity. I wish we could go back to where people used guns to hunt and target practice, not to play soldier, militia man, or monster.
