Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "Multiple fatalities in shooting at Texas High School | Special Report" video.

  1. You can't really say that our children are our most precious commodity anymore. Money obviously means more to the populous, in general. Everyone agrees that it's acceptable to protect money with armed guards. Bring up doing so for the children and half the room loses their minds. Actions speak louder than words and our nation's priorities are obvious.
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  2. 5Mariner I mentioned paid, armed guards and you try to derail my thread to talk about private gun ownership. No. Bad troll! Back under the bridge with you!
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  3. Regular Insomniac Wrong. Workplace shootings are full of adults who are responsible for their own place in this world. School shootings are full of children who rely on the rest of us to secure their place in this world until they're old enough to do so for themselves. Furthermore, trying to use vanity to discourage protecting children is despicable. "Is this Iraq?" Why? Do Iraqis take the safety of their children more seriously than we do? No but people like you are more concerned with public image than with doing what needs to be done. While you're working to implement a system that creates kinder, gentler authority figures, there are people out there, right now, working themselves up to a boiling point. Why pretend it has to be one or the other? Implement guards now to protect all of the kids who will be vulnerable for the next several decades before your program proves out. That's the problem with most of these "solutions." They don't solve anything for tomorrow's victims or the ones after that. They only (maybe) help people years from now. We have a problem now, so we need a response now (or at least, as soon as possible). Any answers dealing with vague notions of what it might solve in the future are irrelevant until the children are protected. The future is theirs, anyway. You can't promise a better future - filled with kind, gentle authority figures - to a single one of the kids that died today. It's too late for them. Of course, we could have protected them and given them lives to look forward to, but then someone might have compared us to Iraq. How unappealing...
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