Let's shift the focus to "IF ONLY THERE WAS ONE LEGAL GUN OWNER IN THE SCHOOL OR A POLICE OFFICER?" How about police officers in every school? How about the mentally ill psycho problem?
It's too hard to try and make sense of a senseless event. Adam Lanza's merciless slaughter in Connecticut has forced everyone with a microphone to insist we have a "national conversation" about why this happens.
But this urgent need to talk is not an excuse for a reckless discussion. Sadly, that is where we're headed, with pundits hysterical, naive or both.
Predictably most in the media went straight to the Left's Alpha and Omega: blaming excessive "access" to guns. It was also an excuse to open fire on the National Rifle Association. For example, author Joyce Carol Oates...
This would be far less expensive than trying to take arms from innocent Americans. Protection will cost money, complete gun control will cost money and LIVES.
Locking a barn door after the horse is stolen costs money. What is so dandy about spending millions on sheer hindsight?
I'd rather everybody home-schools their own kids. We'll have a black helicopter patrolling the neighborhood.
Spare no ideas or expense -this should not be up for any debate anyway.