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In reply to the discussion: Criminals will still be able to get assault rifles. [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)during the Polly Klaas case, our white, middle-class, formerly safe, suburban community ... as a whole ... kept their kids inside, no street soccer games, after school baseball games ended, the TV and video games inside became the "safe places" to play. Her body was ultimately found in a ditch within a couple of miles from our neighborhood.
The neighborhood never did get back to those "safer" days. Yes, we felt better every time we saw a police car go by whereas before, one hardly noticed. And even though it did not directly affect the schools as she was kidnapped from her home and murdered later, they sponsored parent meetings, experts talking to us, tips on how to keep kids safer, etc.
Mark Klaas, her dad, and the non-profit he formed out of his grief, set the stage for networks on child abduction and safety.
Now retail malls have "security" and I don't stay away afraid I'm in a Nazi Germany. Go snark to the folks in Connecticut. They have 26 times the reason ... as do schools, kids and teachers everywhere ... to welcome a bit of "security" other than the tasking the Principal and the teachers to start packing heat.