Knee jerk reactions are rarely the right answer. No matter if you love, hate, or are indifferent about guns...a mass killing in an elementary school is scary as fuck. I've heard the knee jerk reaction to ban guns. From the other side, I've heard the knee jerk reaction to arm all teachers. These are both fucking terrible ideas. The question everyone should be asking is why would a mother train her son to be proficient with weapons...a son who she, and the school feared was mentally ill??? We are going to hear a lot more about this as the investigation develops. I think identifying and treating mentall illness is the ultimate solution. But it's not going to happen overnight. Schools are gun free zones. Apparently, psychos interpret this as a place to inflict damage with little resistance. Onsite security guards or police could change that perception, but that would cause other problems. 1. Schools can barely afford books and they can't afford to pay armed guards either. 2. Do we really want children growing up thinking they need to see an armed guard to feel safe? Of course not. What if the Air Marshall model was applied to schools? What if 2-3 staff members at each school were trained to be school 'Marshalls?' They could have access to a weapon stored in a safe in a secret location within the school? They would be able to respond faster than the 10 minutes it took for CT police to get to the school? Plus, just like an Air Marshall, their identities could remain secret until they had reason to reveal themselves...which we all hope would never be necessary. I am not 'married' to this idea, but I think it's worth discussing. It may be enough to make a badguy think twice about targeting a school.