My first thing is to suggest we stop preventing people from carrying in schools if they can legally carry in their state. There would instantly be an anonymous force of armed people protecting schools and no one would know who or where they are.
People carry everyday in public, around their kids and other kids, at the grocery store, at church. They don't screw up enough for us to notice. So they should be safe enough in schools.
The second thing is to point out the failures of individuals involved to apply common sense and current law. More laws for people not to follow will not help.
In Uvalde this kids nickname from the other kids was 'school shooter'. How much more obvious does it need to be? Teachers and school personnel did nothing.
In the past he posted video on social media of cops at his home for a domestic disturbance. In that video he is screaming at his mother. No police record of this interaction can be found. So cops dropped the ball there. Maybe more than once. Just because there was one video doesn't mean there was only one instance.
In 2018 1 or 2 students at Uvalde middle school were arrested and removed for plotting a school shooting. Plans they discussed included doing it on the anniversary of columbine and in 2022 when they turned 18. Hey it's 2022! He just turned 18! What a coincidence! In 2018 he was at Uvalde middle school. He was either one of them or he was their classmate.
Before entering the school he fired at 2 funeral home employees who had come to help when he crashed the truck. They ran back inside the funeral home. One of them called his wife and told her to bring him his gun. He did not have it because Texas banned guns from funeral homes in the 90s when concealed carry was enacted because of gangs shooting up funerals. If that ban was not in place he could have stopped it before the shooter jumped the fence.
In anyplace in the US you can call the cops on someone you think is crazy. The cops will do a Wellness check. If the cops agree that the person is not right then the cops can take the person for a mental health evaluation. Even against their will. If committed or adjudicated mentally incompetent they are prohibited from owning guns or ammo. But often this information is not shared with NICs despite the law that created NICS in 1993 and the Fix NICS act which only increased use of NICS against people who should not be prohibited.
Cho, the shooter at Virginia Tech years ago, was supposed to be prohibited. But that information never made it from his therapist to NICS. Everyone blames everyone else in the chain for that.
In NY the Buffalo shooter was investigated a year before the shooting for threatening a shooting at his high school. NY has a red flag law. The cops could have used it against that shooter. His own family and the parents of other kids and the school officials could have used it against the shooter. He would not have been able to purchase the guns he used.
Cruz, the Parkland shooter, had numerous encounters with law enforcement including the FBI. Reasons included threats, harming animals (a tell tale sign of violent mental issues), and threatening a school shooting, possibly more than once. He was never arrested or committed because the Obama Justice department was pressuring local law enforcement and school police to not arrest or prosecute black and hispanic kids.
At Parkland, at Uvalde, and at the Pulse Night Club police were present quickly, but spent significant time engaging in onanism staging and preparing while more people were shot and shot people bled out.
It's been a long time since we had a mass shooter use an unsecured family members gun. Ramos bought his, Buffalo shooter bought his, Cruz bought his, San Bernadino bought theirs, Sutherland Springs bought his (US Hair Farce did not report his dishonorable discharge or his domestic violence convictions), Sandy Hook stole his moms which was secured in a safe to which he had the combination.
Every year more people are killed across America in ordinary criminal activity than in all of the mass shootings in many decades, maybe a century.
Fatherlessness has been brought up and it is one thing the majority of mass killers have in common. SSRI use is another. Poor socialization is another. Being male is another. Being raised largely by a single mother is another
One of the driving factors in fatherlessness are the government social welfare programs. They effectively prohibit marriage and long term commitment. They create fatherless boys. They must be ended. All of them. SSRIs need to be stopped. And all laws and regulations preventing people who can legally do so from carrying anywhere need to be ended.
Easy divorce is another thing that needs to be eliminated as a creator of fatherless boys.
Mental institutions need to be reopened to house people incapable of functioning in society.
Children need to be raised and educated by 2 parents, and inflation (dollar devaluation) needs to be stopped and reversed so that a family can be supported by one working parent.
In kayaking, hiking, and camping people say "You are your own first best source of rescue." Fuck up out in the wild and you might not even get a chance to call 911, let alone wait for them to come. It is the same every where else and it is past time people recognize it.
We are all responsible for our own safety and we need to take and share that responsibility. We need to stop delegating our protection because the people we are delegating it to are not upholding their end of the deal.