Trump to seek to "harden" schools against shootings

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5. Hard to harden

I watched the experts come into a few of the schools I've worked at. They can really lock down a front office entrance if they want to and if they have the funds. But go around to the back of the school, to the PE field. Chain link fences, four-feet high, separating the school from roads, houses, and apartments. Yeah, you can harden that if you want using razor wire and higher fences, but even then these are still chain link fences through which one can easily point a weapon should one be disposed.

Hardening schools, while necessary (if only to protect them from temporarily deranged parents) is fine. But the only thing that will really work in the long-run is hardening our population against weapons on steroids and against weapons in the hands of those who shouldn't have weapons.