Emily Jashinsky
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It happens all the time.
Yeah, I think that's right.
I mean, I think armed guards would make me feel a lot safer with our schools.
I don't have kids in schools, but that would make me feel way safer because we know, you know, you could do a full gun buyback in this country and there would still be guns.
So long as there are these memetic copycat type events that have been happening for, what, 20 years now, deal with it and put armed guards in schools, absolutely.
And on top of that, the institution...
Yeah.
And the institution point is so, so important.
I mean, it is beyond obvious to everybody that particularly young men are in a mental health crisis.
And one of the best prophylactics in that case is having strong civil society and social safety nets and people
noticing red flags in their community and doing something, doing something.
I mean, in so many of these cases, we find out that at least, you know, five, six people, even if it was just because of people's online activities, students' online activities, had some suspicion.
that there was something going deeply, deeply wrong, and they felt too weird to say something.
The police dropped the case.
The FBI didn't follow up on all of the leads.
It happens time and time again.
And when you don't have strong families, which again, this is just a reality.
We don't have strong families anymore in this country.
That is not a given.
We have