Never mind that such proposals are fundamentally unserious, impractical or have been tried and proved insufficient for preventing mass murder. Never mind that 96 percent of U.S. public schools already conduct lockdown drills; that many schools are already heavily surveilled fortresses; that there is already a multibillion-dollar school-security industrial complex.
Never mind that the same factions who have argued that mask-wearing and books about Tommy’s two mommies are unacceptably traumatizing for young children are now implying that kindergartners should be kitted out with makeshift body armor.
Perhaps, with unlimited funds and an indifference to child psychology, every school could be converted to something akin to a maximum-security prison. Perhaps a moat and a round-the-clock occupying army could thwart a few more evildoers hoping to gun down children.
But even if all that were practical, schools are hardly the only “soft” targets that regularly serve as backdrops for butchery.
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