Do you agree with this analogy?

The schools here have security systems on the doors, even the nursery's...You have to buzz and say who you are and have a reason for being there to be able to get in....The children and babies Hospital wards are the same here too.

Don't know where you live, but that's not the case in California. There may not be an armed guard, but the schools are fenced and you're forced to walk past the administration office to get on the campus.

I guarantee someone will stop you and ask you what you're doing. Several of my friends have listed me as someone allowed to pick up their kids in the event it's needed, otherwise I'd never be able to take them off school grounds.

Your analogy doesn't take into account that you are comparing two private, for profit enterprises with a non-profit, publicly funded institution. Apples, and oranges. Schools are struggling just to keep the doors open-several of my friends in education have taken pay and benefit cuts-where does the money for armed guards come from? Are you amenable to even more taxes?

Edit: @ Mr. Disney. Your question was whether we agreed with your analogy, not your position-two completely different things. An analogy implies that you are making a connection between two similar things, or points-you didn't IMO, so I don't agree with it. Whether I agree that we should do more to secure schools wasn't what you asked.

I don't consider which you could examine squaddies with mothers. Both will have to be respected and both have made sacrifices, however in one of a kind approaches that can't be in comparison. With the aid of selecting to be a mother, you might be giving up 18+ years of your existence to make sure your youngster is a good-rounded healthy character in an effort to optimistically make this world a greater position. Infantrymen, on the other hand, give up a minimum of three years of their existence to the provider of the nation. Yes, it is risky and there is invariably the hazard you would die in the line of duty if sent to a post where there's clash. It is the soldier's notion that they are doing what is right for their nation. Neither job is effortless and each and every job has it can be possess set of risks. But to compare the two is like comparing apples to oranges.

Hey DD, unfortunately we live in a capitalistic consumer society, we steal and abuse the poor, the rich get rich and all that matters is materialism, the contract between western consumers and third world slave producers is sickening, it's a sad sad sad f*cking world (excuse my language). The future is secondary these days, sad but true :(

You know what's sad? That you, I and many others think it's normal to install metal detectors at school.... I'm not a doom thinker but the world is definitely guiding me into that direction.

You should read Karl Marx - Capital and Naomi Klein - no logo if you're interested in this subject. Then again maybe you shouldn't, it's truly depressing.

I totally agree with you, I thought that having some sort of security at every school in the US would be a wise thing to do. But I guess it will take a V.I.P.'s child to be murdered until any security measures are put in place. I'm British and find it hard to believe that some places are not better protected in America where people are allowed to own guns.

No. People have been in the habit of stealing money and cars for a long time, but slaughtering a bunch of kids is a pretty recent concept. In other words, the need for guarding the cash has been around for a while, but guarding the kids wasn't needed until recently. It's a shame, just a horrible shame.

It's true in most countries, not just the USA. The only thing I can add is that America seriously needs to review it's gun laws before more innocent people are killed. Human life is precious and no one has the right to take it.

Money is more important than the vast majority of things to politicians and big corporations. Not just in the US either.

I'd like to point out the media in particular. This man made an excellent video on the media coverage of the shooting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwAo8lcAC4

I highly advise everyone to watch this video.

Yes I agree with you 100% DD. It's sickening, money is more important than a little ones life..

There isn't really any point in trying to disagree, because sadly it is only too true ... the USA is not alone in having this problem though :S