Friday, December 21, 2012

Violence in America: Treating the problem, not the symptoms. Pt. 2: Security


You know what would have prevented Sandy Hook from ever occurring? Security. And I don't mean armed guards, although those are located at courthouses and government buildings, but not school. Not sure why that is. But had they designed the school with security in mind, there would have been only one way to enter the building. Controlled ingress, screening for weapons to actively exclude them from the building. Restrict entrance to the building until potential entrants are deemed not a threat instead of granting entrance until a threat is presented. Strangely we value our court houses and banks more than our children and then when shit hits the fan as it did at this school we seek to ban guns when this could have easily been prevented without the issue of gun control ever being addressed. But no one wants to talk about the other problems we have because attacking guns and the right to bear arms is the easy thing to do. We can point at guns and say, there...that's the demon we must exorcise when in reality guns are nothing but a tool and gun violence is nothing but a symptom. If you break a bone, do you just take some pain killers and say fuck it, this will work? Absolutely not. You go to a doctor to have them fix the problem. Yes, there will be pain in the process, but once you face reality and treat the real problem, the pain will go away on its own, organically. However, if you just take pain killers and ignore the problem, A. the problem is still there. B. The pain killers over time cause their own set of problems that are just as bad, if not worse, than the original problem. There is a reason why science and medicine work on the premise of treat the cause, not the symptoms.

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