As news reports revealed the tragic murder of 17 Florida high school students and teachers, liberals reacted immediately and predictably by accusing the NRA, Republicans, gun owners, gun manufacturers, etc., of having blood on their hands.
The knee-jerk responses and politicization of this horrible tragedy will do nothing to protect school kids.
We need real security in our schools and we need it now.
The next school shooter is out there somewhere at this very moment.
He is waiting, biding his time and planning. He doesn’t care about the protests, boycotts, marches or heated rhetoric.
To his cruel, twisted mind, gun-free zones are an open invitation to hit a “soft” target.
Having public schools designated as gun-free zones needs to change to armed-security zones.
For you liberals, this is called a deterrent.
On-site armed (concealed carry) and trained staff volunteers in co-ordination with law enforcement using specific active shooter threat assessment protocols need to be in place as soon as possible.
This can be done safely and discreetly.
If gun control advocates were instantly given all the “reasonable” gun control they ask for, it would not stop the carnage.
When the next shooting happens, and it will, the blood of the innocent will be on the hands of those who refuse to get serious about school security.
Ron Dearinger,
Port Angeles