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Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide.

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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I’m all for gun control. As in, significant reforms, nationwide reforms. Real background checks. Limits on the types of guns. Insurance requirements. Safety training requirements. The list can keep on going…

That said, I’d still want an emergency alert system in schools. There are other threats and other situations where it could be needed, there is nothing wrong with having both.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

As in, significant reforms

See: Australia.

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- curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Juuuust about ideal, definitely.
  
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  - CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sure, except we are defenceless to the rampant dropbears. /s
    
    Australia is a funny example for gun control. Yanks seem to think we have no guns at all, but the reality is that as long as you are mentally sound and store your guns safely, they aren’t that hard to get.
    
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    curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    as long as you are mentally sound and store your guns safely
    
    Yeah, that’s a pretty substantial improvement to what we have in the US.
    
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Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Could distract us from the real solution and delay it further

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- curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good.
  
  It will take a lot longer to get proper gun control in place in the US. We’ve already got the GOP and their “Well it sucks, but too bad, move on” rhetoric going.
  
  There is no reason not to minimize risk during the time it will take, even to get to where we we were 20 years ago.
  
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