Law across the Entire USA is you have to be 21 to buy or own a hand gun , there are already laws in place . Dont hear you accusing the Parents for not securing a Handgun and or Ammunition . So is it the Guns fault or the Gun Owners fault ? Could it even be the 15 yr olds fault ? ......by age 14 i already had a perfect score on my concealed carry test and thats a fact . That Kid had mental issues .

Eliminate the gun-free portion of the concealed carry law, change school policy to allow (not require) those teachers and staff members who have concealed carry permits (with the training and background checks they require) to have handguns in schools. Nobody will know for certain if or how many armed defenders a school will have.

Mass murderers will likely opt to hit other gun-free "havens", where getting shot back at won't be a potential problem. They are crazy, not stupid. There's no media glory in assaulting a school with firearms and bombs only to get taken out by a kindergarten teacher who's on the Rock County County Pistol and Rifle Club's Thursday night Bullseye League.

Yes if the shootings were happening at school crossings or in buses i may suggest it but they are not are they ? We lock our homes we lock our cars and garages we have alarm systems for all of these , But for the most valued thing of all we open the front door point them to where school is and tellem dont be late . Then one something happens to them you blame an Object not the person that planned it . Ya im the crazy one .

Why have schools? Close them all down and make students go to school online from home. End of problem.

Let me remind you that 6 adults died at the elementary school trying to stop a deranged individual with a gun, if any of them had a weapon they would have stood a much better chance of stopping him.

Maybe the NRA will support giving ALL "bad guys" guns so they kill each other leaving only "good guys" left in this world. Then, we all live happily ever after....

Maybe an alternative yet equal idea would be to build moats around all schools?

Encrypted radios, not open frequency, MIGHT [we need italics] thwart a would-be killer. Briefly. Slow him down, perhaps. Whatever the reaction time might be for police to arrive, it will be too late. Create a diversion as did the terrorist in Norway, and then hit the real target . . . radio becomes a handsome paper weight.
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Take away all the firearms. Little matter. Determined psychos will use machete, knife, hatchet, molotov cocktail [such as the attack on a Madison bus not long ago]. It’s what lies in the killers heart and mind folks, not the scary looks of this rifle or that one. In my mind, any “body count” total will be too many.
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Perhaps armed staff IS [we need italics] a partial solution. You and I rub elbows in various stores, work place, eateries, and bars with folks who are “carrying” and we have no way of knowing. He or she might be our salvation in the event of violence. Left leaning mass media conveniently do NOT publish stories of how armed resistance has stopped or prevented shootings, including recent one in Oregon. [ And why is it, do you suppose, that the majority of Left media fail to tell us how firearms served the public good? ]

The radio is a feel good solution. It feels good that something, anything was done. But the feel good will last only until the bad guy with a gun shoots the radio.

It's easy for public agencies to carelessly spend the taxpayers money. Why are the taxpayers left out of the loop when it comes to their own money? This knee-jerk reaction is just another example of government spending gone wild.

The radios are a knee jerk reaction and will have little if any effect. The fact is that kids, as well as adults could be shot ANYWHERE.

Where is this radio going to be? in the front office I would assume. So that if anyone wants to shoot up a school they walk in to the front office first and kill everyone there. then what? A radio in each classroom? Maybe a micro-radio implant in each teacher? it never ends....
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Shatter proof glass - No match for the front end of even the smallest of cars.
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Bottom line is; if a nut job wants to cause chaos...they will. If you take away all the guns they make bombs, use airplanes, cars, silverware, snakes....you name it. Its not the tool the nut job uses.... its the nut job. But they have equal rights and walk amongst us and we cant do anything about it. A person that demonstrates road rage is i typical example... obviously can be set off and potentially cause harm. Cant lock up people for road rage, whats to say they take some meds or drugs.... now what are they capable of?

Weapons with 30 round clips can do great damage before anyone can even get to a radio. Most educators know that the first line of defense is teachers and counselors. Many have taken weapons away from kids before a crisis arose. There is no defense against a "nut-job" who is intent on doing serious harm. We have to hope that teachers and counselors can be trained to deal with critical problems and prevent further loss of life. I do not think teachers should have to teach with a loaded gun secreted in the lectern. We can only hope for a change in treatment of mental health issues. We are unlikely to see change in the near future. I've hunted and have never needed more than two shots to dispense a small, frightened animal. We shouldn't need to hunt with machine guns and AK47's. Is gun control the answer or better mental health care and facing those issues within families a better avenue of treating modern societal problems? Do we need armed policemen in every building? Are this country's children an expendable commodity because we are tax- cheapskates? Perhaps, it is at least time to start a wider public and political dialogue.

If Parents and Government dont want to pay for shatter proof glass and a better more secure entry way into schools, or some kind of "Defense System nothing will change .

Their will always be Innocent Victims.

It's the gun free Zone telling all Phyco's no one here who can even attempt stop you .

Good Intentions , Bad Results .

Every One and their Brother has a cell phone is that Helping ?

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein.

Shaving "precious seconds or even minutes off the time it takes police officers to respond" might make a small difference, but only if there was an actual situation.
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Having trusted people armed at the location is a better solution because there is a deterrent aspect -- a criminally-inclined person could not expect to find a confined group of "sitting ducks." The perception that the grownups at schools are likely to be armed is more important than if they really are.

The best way to handle this is to do nothing at all. Why waste the money and resources on a problem that doesnt exist? Aiplanes have crashed into buildings, why dont all schools and public buildings have aircraft radar and incoming aircraft warning alarms? If there ever was a case of something being dragged out way to far.... This is it.