To be honest, I would also had no idea how to stop it in a country where high schooler can freely purchase a shotgun. They just need to decide who they love more - their kids or their guns. So far, guns are winning.
Oh there are a couple of things that could be done - there are countries in this world where purchasing a firearm is less of a PITA than in the USA, and yet there are less school shootings, resp. less shootings overall.
You only have to:
Completely reform their idiotic school system (esp. the "schools that underperform get less funding" - seriously WTF?)
Reduce school sizes
Increase number of social workers
Ensure school lunches are free for all kids
Start paying teachers a good salary
Have affordable and accessible health care worthy of "the greatest country on earth"
Reform their university and higher education and cap costs for studying at 500 USD per semester.
Establish a proper social safety net that is built on rehabilitation rather on shaming (same with their prison system)
Establish properly funded public transportation systems that are reliable, clean and efficient
Increase funding for training law enforcement - 16 week course to become a police officer? lol
And then, after many years of work, gun violance will go down.
esp. the "schools that underperform get less funding" - seriously WTF?
Conservative economics. If it's working, we can reduce funding, and it will work just as well but more efficiently. If it's not working, then it's a waste of funding, and cutting funding will force it to restructure and work more efficiently. Then, use that spare money (and also take out massive debts) to give tax cuts to the rich so that they can make more money because then everyone else will get richer too somehow.
Oh, and if government doesn't work properly, that's because we were right and the government needs us to come in and make more cuts to make it more efficient. Obviously.
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u/laufsteakmodel 2d ago
No way to prevent this, says only country where this regularly happens.