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America, if it wants to reduce the chances of, and occurrences of attacks on schools by lunatics needs to listen to folks like Mr. McDaniel. Because reality matters Not talking points, not repetitious propaganda. Protecting our children IS the top priority
How best to secure schools against active shooters? Politically, there are two trains of thought: the made up reality view and the based-in-actual—reality view.
Among the most rational and grounded purveyors of actual reality are the members of the Secret Service Presidential Protection Detail. They know if someone truly wants to kill the President, and is willing to die in the attempt, they’re likely to succeed. What does this piece of real reality have to do with school attackers? As I’ve previously written, they’re difficult to detect and stop because there is no single set of sure, trip wire, warning signs. However, we do know:
1) They are determined to kill as many children and teachers as possible.
2) They are attacking “gun free,” free fire zones, not hard targets with an unknown number of people present who can and will shoot back or shoot first.
3) They usually intend to die, either by suicide or by the guns of the police, who will never show up in time to prevent as many murders as attackers want to commit.
Everything McDaniel notes there is true. Laws will not stop school shootings, nor will noble sounding ideas that are not based in reality. No matter how depraved, disturbing, and repugnant the truth is, it is still the truth. Here is a reality we cannot change, evil, and evil people exist
The most important concept for those actually interested in securing schools to grasp is a clear-eyed understanding of ultimate reality: the existence of evil. Those who construct their own reality and demand everyone else live in it must deny the existence of evil. Such people commonly reject God, because nothing and no one can be greater than the self-imagined elite and their political reality. Therefore, their version of evil, divorced from the spiritual and religious, is opposition to their intellectually and morally superior policies. Their reality consists of inventing a narrative and making up whatever is necessary to support it. They do this with rhetoric and feelings, which is why “gun free” zone signs make them feel safe.
Those who live in the real world, the world God created, have no doubt of the existence of evil. They didn’t create it, but they have an obligation to fight it. Since they didn’t create it, they know there is no political solution. Evil doesn’t obey the law. Evil will always exist, thus reality-based steps must be taken to deter, and when necessary, destroy, evil. They use evidence and logically based action to address threats, not feelings. Their solutions allow people to the greatest possible degree, to be rather than feel safe.
Please go read it all. I believe McDaniel is correct, too many want to find a way around the facts. The fact is schools are targets, very rare targets, thank God. But, targets for evil people they are. That is a bitter reality, and feelings, or “passing a new law” are never going to change that truth. It is far past time we accepted this. Again, go read the rest, Mike puts forth some ideas that will help in stopping the next attempted school shooting.
