All the way back to the UT Tower shootings. Typically, mass shooters get shot when armed cops arrive, either by the cops or by themselves. Armed cops routinely end all kinds of gun violence; that, after all, is why they have guns, and there is nothing non-sensical about that. A federal program (which is what I understood to be on the table) would not financially burden school districts, and even local programs would place the financial burden on the local law enforcement agencies guarding the schools, not the school districts. You think our old high school pays the cops who cruise the parking lot in squad cars at lunch?

You would rather fund training and certification, which the NRA says is ineffective and too expensive; they would rather fund police guarding schools, which you say is ineffective and too expensive. Those both sound less like rebuttals than excuses. I am truly sick and tired of the irrational fringes on both sides shouting each other down with strawmen and canards while the vast majority of America desperately seeks a rational effective policy amid those shrill hyperbolic distractions.

Lemme simplify this: The SOLE reason ANYONE listens to the gun lobbys alarmist hyperbolic claims about confiscation is because radical fringe gun control advocates make them credible. Likewise, the SOLE reason ANYONE listens to the other sides alarmist hyperbolic claims about all the people trying to turn their backyards into Ft. Dix is because radical fringe gun rights advocates make them credible. They are not rebutting each other, they are VALIDATING each other. And getting in the way of the vast majority who categorically disagrees with both as we try to draft effective reasonable national gun policy. Anyone who wants people to dismiss the pro/anti-gun lobby as delusional should stop making its fears so plausible to everyone else.