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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIncreasing security as a defense against mass shootings
That's the reactionary, and somewhat understandable, position that some involved in the video game industry are taking in light of Sunday's shootings in Jacksonville:
Gamers plead for more security after deadly Jacksonville shooting
Its time esports events (large and small) double down on security for everyone in general and players specifically," the CEO of an esports team tweeted
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gamers-plead-more-security-after-deadly-jacksonville-shooting-n904016
And that's exactly what's happening at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, site of a mass shooting in February:
Stoneman Douglas will be patrolled by 18 security personnel in new school year
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-sb-stoneman-douglas-security-20180808-story.html
We know that having an ex-deputy as a school resource officer/security person didn't prevent the 17 people from dying in the Stoneman Douglas shooting despite him being on the scene...
Link to tweet
We have mass shootings now in schools, in churches, at video game competitions, from hotel windows into crowds at a music festival, in shopping malls, on the streets. Are there enough security guards to go around? Do we need to live in a permanent police state?
Here's a reasoned alternative, but it doesn't get traction, of course:
I went to a huge conference on school safety. No one wanted to talk about gun control
The most obvious solution to school shootings is the one nobody wanted to discuss
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/30/17518970/school-shooting-solutions-safety
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The problem here is actually not gun control per se. The problem is we are a violent society/culture. Gun control won't happen until our culture realizes that violence is not, and should not be the primary solution to conflict. Once we accomplish that, gun control won't be the political issue that it is. The problem of course is that in the mean time, our culture creates violence which then convinces us that we need to be prepared to use violence in response. So then people want to be able to own guns so as to feel they are prepared and protected.
More security guards isn't the answer. It is an interim response in the context of believing that violence will be a solution and a preventative of violence. Violence isn't the solution to our fears, it is the cause of it.
KCDebbie
(664 posts)Call for the purchase if MORE guns!