There Has Been Fast Action on Guns Since Parkland

RUSH: Not long ago CNN reported something. This is kind of schadenfreude. It’s not really schadenfreude, but I could see if some people reacted to it that way. Since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, there has been a lot of action taken to make schools more secure and to reduce the risk of another mass shooting.

And all of this was demanded, was it not? I mean, this school shooting for many was the tipping point. We’ve gotta deal with this now. We can’t just treat these as one-offs. We’ve gotta deal with it, and so everybody got in gear. And I’m not talking about the students. I’m talking about the adults, policy makers, everybody wanted to be seen as being first to have substantive ideas.

And a lot of people started working feverishly to come up with ideas, and many of those ideas have been implemented. And, in fact, many of them have been implemented at the Marjory Stoneman school in Parkland. Now, you would think that’s good, right? I mean, normally government and other agencies operate at a snail’s pace. Here are just some of the things that have seen either the beginning of quick action on or actual substantive action having taken place.

In addition to bans on bump stocks, more money has been made immediately available for armed school resource officers. Despite the debate about it, the fact is that there are many more security people in schools now who are armed. They’re called school resource officers. And in fact they were at Parkland.

In addition to the armed school resource officers, perimeter security measures are now taking place, being set up around many schools. There are even some new systems allowing for the anonymous reporting of students or anybody else who might be exhibiting dangerous behavior or making threats or what have you. And these systems, in many places, have already been put in place. They’ve already started.

Now, individually these things are not being reported on. You see, many of these improvements are not being reported on at all because as far as the Drive-Bys are concerned they want you to think that nothing positive is happening. They want you to think the only positive happening is all the students and marching and raising hell. But they want you to think the NRA is succeeding in making sure that nobody does anything.

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