If the airlines could do it, why not the schools?

Seriously locked down? That's too paranoid.

The rest is OK.

There's just so much wrong in all that, that it's hard to know where to start.

Let's see, Stewardesses don't have to teach classes while aloft. And, most of the folks that they're looking after are adults.

Then, there's the fact that schools HUGELY outnumber airports. Parents want to be able to go and talk to the teachers who their kids are being taught by. No one's coming to the door of any aircraft in flight.

Then, there's the MYTH that armed guards are effective in such mass killing incidents. Yet, no such attack has ever been stopped that way, and studies show that the effect of surprise (The attacker is, after all, able to choose when they will attack, info that the guards will always lack. It's not possible to be vigilant 100% of the time) massively diminishes defenses, especially when the defense is one or two people.

Heck, Japan surprised thousands of trained military personnel at Pearl Harbor and wiped out much of the Pacific Fleet there. It's not rational to expect that rent-a-cops will do any better.

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One question lies at the heart of the public health and safety approach to gun control: Do the risks associated with firearms outweigh their benefits?a The question is particularly acute with respect to handguns, which are responsible for most of America's gun violence.

The gun industry's answer is clear. Over the last 30 years it has promoted the putative value of handguns for self-defense more than any other benefit, such as recreation. The gun business argues that this supposed self-defense benefit outweighs the risk of harm from pistols and revolvers that is demonstrated year after year in America's unparalleled handgun death and injury rates.

This report is not a primer on the law of self-defense and lethal force, but a brief survey of basic principles and how experts view the matter, as it is popularly interpreted. It illuminates the patent danger of our present practice of allowing citizens to carry concealed handguns with only minimal screening and hardly any educational requirements. Based on the work of widely recognized pro-gun experts on the use of handguns for self-defense, it demonstrates that the industry's position is false. These experts' own words are quoted at length in this report. They show that for entirely practical reasons handguns in particular are a dangerous choice for all but a tiny minority of exceptionally well-trained people who maintain their skills with regular and intensive practice. The vast majority of handgun owners put not only themselves, but their families, their neighbors, and wholly innocent bystanders at unreasonable risk of harm, including death and catastrophic injury. The costs of this harm are borne largely by the non-gun owning public.

you are correct sir.

we should lock up the children in a small room.

and pilots are shootin hijackers all the time now.

jet plane = school ... same thing.