they want the schools to become more welcoming. if we create the trust and we connect in terms of relationships, particularly in a post-covid era, that will be really helpful. that s what teachers are thinking about. not hardening schools. not arming themselves. but how we can create a safe, welcome environment. dan: part of the problem is how this generation of kids are formed mostly online. kinds lack a personal human connection. they see actual violence portrayed in the music they listen to and the video games they play. the screen, a tablet, computer, is taking the place of genuine human interaction face to face. person to opinion.
elementary school. one of the complaints is it s hard sometimes to get administrators to focus on the elementary schools because offenders are usually high schoolers and they expect them to go to the high school. now we have had two. we don t need a third. but this summer business to get here. most schools are going to be out. if you are not running war games on your school to see if someone can break into it and you are in charge of security. if you are not running war games to see what little thing you can do to secure your school, you are wrong. i am going to be walking through the schools in a couple weeks in case there is anything i see that is an obvious fix. another set of eyes for someone that temperatures trained in this. i hope they will do more by the end of the summer and i hope every school district does. dan: some of these fixes can be
i hate to say this, but there are more people shot every weekend in chicago than there are in schools in texas. and we need to realize that people who any maybe if we just implement tougher gun laws, chicago and l.a. and new york. if you are looking for a real solution, chicago teaches what you are talking about is not a real solution. dan: there is no simple solution. here is the hard truth. there is not one thing that will stop this from happening. like any threat you can take steps to mitigate the risk. but evil exists. it s real, and it will always be here to playing heart since the first conscious human being. that s what this was. it was evil.
played war with toy gurns all day. a specific friend of mine group around shot guns and rifles. their friends would bring them to school in the back of their trucks in a gun rack right there in the parking lot. parents were paralyzed with fear every time their kids board bus to go to those schools. they didn t even think twice when they waved good-bye. now parents have anxiety. so what changed? there isn t one simple answer to what changed. anyone who says that is lying to your face. but that doesn t mean there aren t answered. our culture is rotting. we have applying of broken homes, an entertainment culture sat righted with glorified violence. throw this into the witch s brew. children isolated and pulled
children. these babies who were attacked yesterday. dan: joey, i will go to you next. the secret service. the gnat national threat assessment center did a study, one of the things that creeped up, in 81% of the cases the shooter has told at least one person they were going to attack the school. in 60% of the days they told one or more people. if anything this study is a glimmer of nope a dire subject. if we do the work, we can prevent some of these. that s been the case the whole time. gun legislation becomes a policy question everyone wants to talk about. that may be the direction we go. but couldn t we harden schools now and develop plans to interdict? that s where the frustration