Well that was my point the only way we would have enough military resources for that to work at every school would probably be to bring back the draft which for a number of reasons would probably have issues even more so than if we had to bring it back for traditional reasons which would itself be likely to cause issues at this point.
What if they did it like they do warrants and arrests again not perfect, but would almost certainly require less manpower.
I can understand gun buy backs and bans are impractical.
I'm confused by your characterization of democratic solutions though....
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As you said, it’s not perfect, clearly we should stick to inaction until we have a perfect plan. It’s the American way.
why? If we say that the military is the soluation and you said that if we really wanted to we could make it happen and yet we only have somewhere between a 1'5th and 1/4 of people in that age range we could draft ( the only hope we would have of making something like that working that does not sound like an excuse to me that sounds like reality.
It would require less manpower and therefore may be more likely to work at least in terms of resources. I have noticed that the saying hind sight's 20/20 have really proved true in these shootings where people have admitted later that they basically should have known something was up so there is no way of really knowing how many shootings would have been prevented if people would have spoken up ( probably one of the best ways t prevent shootings if people would do it.
Because it’s a stupid wild fantasy made up to excuse our acceptance of mass shooting of children and our choice as a nation to not focus on making that not happen again.
but the fact is if you are suggesting the military as a soluation to the problem if there are not enough resources ( in this case manpower there are only so many ways that we could increase those resources quickly while still having a military for other affairs resources do not just come out of thin air and if you spread them too thin they are not effective many times.
another user did and you said if we made it a priority we could make it happen, so I took that to mean that you were suggesting that if we wanted the military to be an option to protect all the schools we could provide the resources for that which based on the facts I mentioned above would very likely be completely false.
You were mistaken.
I'm sure we can figure something out. ~30% of the population would need to visit a doctor periodically. That doesn't seem like an insurmountable obstacle.
so now that I know I was mistaken we can quit talking about using the military as a soluation I was thinking that when you said we could make it happen you meant the military "option" which for a number of reasons is not really a viable option.
the question is what is that something. Now, it would be more reasonable manpower wise to have people undergo such an envaule upon purchasing or receiving his/her first firearm.
No options are viable. We’re going to wring our hands for a few days, maybe a week, then move on because this is an acceptable loss.
Actually, we are not accountable for other people's actions even if you said we decide what the laws are the only person that are accountable for their choices to act a particular way is the person who committed the action. Driving drunk is illegal, yet we do not say that everyone is accountable when a particular person breaks that law. We can have whatever laws on the books we want at the end of the day it is up to each person to follow them or not you cannot blame others for your poor choices.
that is actually one thing I think would help in some of these mass shootings if the media would quit harping on them.
