Proposal to directly address the school shooting:

[Eleanors38]

Pass a Safe Schools Act (a la Clinton) to provide grant monies to beef up trained, armed security/LEO (2 or more per school). American schools can choose to:

(1) Use the money for more security;
(2) Opt out in favor of other plans (say, training staff to perform security duties;
(3) Opt out and continue a "gun free" zone.

Schools all over the nation can take the option they prefer. Obama can push this now. Personally, I think he would succeed and be widely supported. And millions of parents can take concrete action.

Are we serious about school shootings?

[teddy51]

1. I totally agree. This is the only way that we can secure our schools.

[tk2kewl]

2. i want laws that create a safe society where you do not need armed gaurds for children

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that includes:

economic justice

education

public health care

public investment

I want a world where FDR's 4 Freedoms are no considered pie in the sky, but real goals

Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear

[Eleanors38]

3. Agreed. Yet those Democratic Party goals and plans take a backseat to...

gun control. I wonder if the out-of-control hateathon here is a deep frustration with the Party's turn to the right, and gun-control is one of the few focal points remaining in a party whose goals are increasingly hazy, but pro-corporate/finance.

Boy. Big turnout for a discussion of this proposal!