School Shootings #15

     I emailed Alabama's US Senator Doug Jones today. I am now using the metaphor of an Army fort about to be attacked by Indians and pointing out that the commander of the fort would first try to strengthen the defenses of the fort as much as possible. Then might he ride out to the approaching Indians in a quixotic effort to get them to shorten their arrows (bow control). Only a severely
intellectually-challenged or psychotic or perverted commander would ignore his fort defenses but ride out to see if the Indians were interested in bow control.
     Unfortunately, the latter is what I am finding in my responses from US senators, governors and local schools. Not one has mentioned defending schools from the direct threat of a shooter but only mention gun control. This is a perversion of the problem. The problem is shooters getting into schools not the issue of gun control.
     I am also mentioning that I believe the political elites are open to personal lawsuits by the parents of school children injured or killed by school children on the basis that the elites were knowingly negligent in having metal detectors and gunpowder-sniffing dogs at school entrances. The big city schools have been using metal detectors for years because of armed gang members. They have proven effective. They are also widely used in other buildings such as courts and Social Security offices. The elites cannot plead ignorance of them. The elites cannot plead ignorance of the prevalence of school shootings either. Something like 240 of them over the years. So the political elites are highly vulnerable to criminal negligence suits.
     I am also suggesting individuals call or email their local school board members. Get their addresses too so you can demonstrate, legally of course, in front of their homes when the next school shooting happens in America. Demand detectors and dogs at the local schools. These school board members must be held accountable. They get a salary, prestige, and power. They should be
strengthening the defenses of schools against allowing angry, young men walking in with guns, not blathering about gun control. Peter "Nick" Nickerson.
Redneck with major in philosophy. 352-359-0850. peternickerson12@yahoo.com