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Eighteen children and Three adults killed at an elementary school in Texas
In Uvalde Texas today and eighteen year old gunman shot and killed eighteen innocent children and three adults, before he himself was killed by law enforcement. By why are we seeing so many school shootings? The answer can be found in the the gun free school act of the 1990’s. This just made the schools a soft target.
Criminals love soft targets. When they see gun free zone, they know they won’t be encountered because guns are forbidden at schools. When I was growing up and in school, I didn’t have to worry about a school shooting. People respected those institutions for one. Number two, our principal had a loaded shotgun in his pick-up truck and one in his office. Our schools weren’t locked like they are now. We didn’t have to do a live shooter drill. The only drills we had to do was a fall out shelter drill and a fire drill.
What has changed? Violent video games is one thing and kids who can’t deal with rejection. Call it cruel but when I was growing up we had to actually try out for the baseball team. Ours was not an everybody gets a participation trophy society. It seems as if the only thing that criminals target are soft targets. A ten year old child can’t shoot back like an adult can. You don’t hear of a gun range being attacked do you? But a post office you do, because guns are…