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Originally Posted by carlsonjok
It only fails to make sense when you accept individual arguments on a stand-alone basis and don't need for them to hang together as a coherent whole.
There are two propositions here:
1. It is nearly impossible to identify individuals that represent risks.
2. It is trivially easy to identify individuals that don't represent risks.
Surely you can see the contradiction here.
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It fails to make sense because it is so easily proven false.
Every major venue in the United States manages to find qualified security. Most universities have entire police departments that mainly exist to fine people for traffic and harass students for minor victimless crime. It is not difficult to put a security guard or officer in an elementary school - there are already tons of them on our colleges. Why is every other venue able to do this, except for K-12 schools?
It is not very difficult to find security or police personnel who are very unlikely too shoot up a school. Has this ever even happened? What risk do you think these security professionals bring to a K-12 school? What do you think a policeman in a K-12 school is going to do?
I am not really big on this idea, and not even really a supporter, but this is not a rational argument. It is provably false as every other large gathering space is able to do this perfectly fine, every single day, in all 50 states.