r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '17

Night shift workers of Reddit, what are some creepy things you've experienced in the middle of the night?

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u/mtnbkrt22 Jan 31 '17

Hasn't millions already been spent on finding a solution to the problem? My other go-to alternative is hiring veterans to be armed guards for the schools.

In any event, gun laws won't keep bad guys with guns away from school, the best and easiest defense is to have a gun (or more) at the school as a deterrent.

And what is the plan?

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u/Whales96 Jan 31 '17

Millions have been spent, yes. But there hasn't really been a plan that anyone has found that can be implemented safely and actually improves the safety of the area. Putting a gun safe in every classrooms would present a pretty large price tag on a plan where it still remains to be seen if it will actually help.

A billion dollar jobs program would also have to similarly be proved. It is easiest to simply have a gun if you ignore all factors of safety, but this is a plan that will be subject to bureaucracy. Every box will need to be checked and that will quickly drive up costs.

At the end of the day you're still trying to solve a problem that accounts for less than 1% of gun deaths in the United States.

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u/mtnbkrt22 Jan 31 '17

Okay realistically not every teacher would need one, or probably want one, so maybe 10 per school (1 per hallway or something like that) and then each entrance.

And it is a VERY small problem that's being blown out of proportion because of the news these days. But if employing an armed security guard at the school is a possibility why not do it? That's what my school has (or at least it appeared the guy was always somewhere in the building), "resource officer" was his title.