Chicago Public Schools know better about controlling children's safety.

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31. Prevention is not a bandaid if prevention makes the schools areas of safety in communities.

The problem of mass shooters is a societal problem. It should never be up to schools to "change the problem" of society, just to teach, protect and empower future generations.

What businesses do to protect themselves is a business problem. I've seen all manner of security systems in these businesses, haven't you?

This society is what it decides to make itself. If the few, say a political minority, have a war mentality, hoard weapons and live in their own fortresses out of fear of living with difference, we're still big enough a society to move on without them. I'd never subscribe to, defer to, or enable the worst of us to define what our society is.

I'm totally with you about taking out military assault weapons. I'm all for any of the many kinds of ways to do it -- passing national background check law, further funding and empowering the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to stop straw buyers and weapons traffickers, banning and fining and dissolving the charters of any manufacturers that make assault weapons; putting any black market sellers of assault weapons in jail, banning assault weapons sales at gun shows; ordering sheriffs to offer buy-backs of assault weapons, then house-to-house confiscations of them, then arresting any and all sheriffs who refuse to follow the law and participate in the national draw down of assault weapons.

Biden was right. When we banned assault weapons, mass shootings didn't happen; when we stopped, they tripled.