Excuse me, but I'm 64 and I'm not old.

Truth

Another bad day for society in America .Only someone with mental health issues would deliberately set out to kill 8 to 10 year old children. There always seems to be no end to throwing federal money at all types of so called social problems. But when it comes to helping those people that truly are in need of mental health problems they never seem to get the real help they need .This month is Mental Health Awareness Month .Did anyone know that? It saddens me that everyone knows we need to help some people to deal with life .But somehow that help is never provided to them. It is here take some more drugs that we call medicine .Everyone is paying a price for the total lack of really addressing this issue

Heart wrenching. Prayers for the families.

54 billion to defend uke, maybe a few million to defend American children.

If the left wasn't angling to disarm all of us they'd say it's high time to put armed adults in schools. Why won't they budge?

40 billion? That was just last week! Try over 800 BILLION! Can’t afford to protect Americans but let’s keep trying to protect other countries that only want us when someone is kicking their door in!

This one hits home as I have 2 grandchildren 1 is in 4th grade the other one in 2nd Makes me sick to my stomach what these families are going thru The 60,000 dollars per year for a SRO officer doesn’t look that expensive now does it

Last weeks shooter was RADICALIZED by the internet according to the left Bet this nut was by video games That is the start to a lot of these young shooters.
I have never questioned my faith or Gods purpose. But this action can make one pause and wonder , has to .

The kid was born in North Dakota, fought often with his Mom and had fistfights often with schoolmates. No mention of a father. The school/town is 80% Hispanic, 60 miles from the Mexican border, truancy was a problem with him, he stuttered and had a lisp and was bullied in school. More problems than you can shake a stick at. Sounds like the system failed him a long time ago as well as every other person in his path. Wonder how many lawyers are lining up to get their fingers in this case to sue the school....

Our POS President again used this terrible event to push his anti gun agenda. How many guns are protecting him? The real problem is mental illness.

Nailed it.

I am fortunate enough to work for a city that allows SRO's in their schools. But not all cities are the same. I truly don't understand the backlash against SRO's in schools. In addition to having officer presence within the school you also have a role model for the students that's able to create rapport with the students and debunk that "cop fear" the country seems to so desperately want our children to have.

Our school system does too. Great guys who really care about safety and have good relationships with the students.

I have gotten to know them well enough to form the opinion that it would be unwise for a bad guy to screw with them.

We have SROs here also. I have gotten to spend some time talking with the one in the grade school and I believe this man would be a force to reckon with to anyone aiming to harm the children. I do however believe that as one man in a large building he is limited, and I would support letting teachers also be armed if they so choose. I understand that some teachers would not and some should not be armed, but many are more than capable and would defend our children with the same vigor as their own.

We need to return to a time when the absolute worst thing a principal could do to student wasn't a paddling, those were welcomed instead, but to call your daddy down to the school.

That happened to me ONCE.

Or a time when teachers lived side by side with their students and went to church together as my mother did with most of the three generations she taught.

Or that same mama packing a 38 most of her life school or not.

Gentlemen I don't mean to stir the pot here, but as someone who has been through a school shooting the police presence on the campus does not stop a school shooter. The officer may be able to respond and save some lives, but they will not be the determining factor in if a shooting does or does not happen. To be very clear, I am not saying an SRO should not be there. I think they are worth having around for sure, just don't put all of your eggs in that basket.

The proper investment is in access restriction and clearing before entering a building with metal detectors or other methods. I was on a college campus with its own police department. Cops crawling everywhere. Shooting still happened. People still died. Could it have been more people if the campus police didn't respond? Probably so. Did the police presence on campus stop the shooting from happening? No.

Nowadays it goes like this.
Teacher calls parent to tell them their kid has been diciplined.
Parent goes to the scool,kid tells parent "daddy,the teacher was mean to me".
Parent lays a beating on teacher.

I see gun control coming for the US

I completely agree with you. My department offers a citizens police academy with a small graduation and luncheon at the end. It's a super way to encourage and empower the community while educating them about the ins and outs of our department, it's quite amazing really. Our community loves, respects and trusts us because of things like this. I think it would be a fantastic idea for teachers to be able to conceal carry, it would also be a excellent idea for them to have to qualify with said weapon they wish to carry in the school and be proficient in the use of that weapon. When introduced to high stress situations your fine motor skills go down dramatically. If you're not proficient in the use of said weapon to the point that it's second nature to function that weapon and be able to trouble shoot malfunctions, your survivability of that situation can go down quite a bit. Just a thought though!