Letter to the editor: Solution to school shootings

Solution to horrific school shootings:

Make every school a hard target with one entrance with an armed guard and a metal detector; keep all other doors locked. Protect a school like a Tiffany jewelry store.

Allow teachers with training to carry concealed pistols. Problem solved.

The government can ban guns, making everyone feel better, but this will result in failure just as the “war on drugs” has failed. A ban will allow organized crime another way to earn money, and criminals will still obtain guns. Private citizens who turn in their guns will be totally dependent on the police for protection. No matter how great a local police force is, they cannot be everywhere 24/7 . Citizens in low-income neighborhoods will be the most affected.

Unfortunately, as we have seen with past terror killings, a car can be used to kill, along with knives, hammers, etc.

Several years ago an armed churchgoer stopped a gunman who opened fire inside a Texas church and killed two people. He was awarded the state’s highest civilian honor, the Governor’s Medal of Courage. If this law-abiding citizen didn’t stop the shooter, many people would have been killed.

Russell Dejulio

Mt. Lebanon