I think we need to do something even if it’s a bad or dumb thing because school shootings are gaining a reputation as an intractable issue and THAT’S the thing we gotta get rid of because school shootings are so anomalous there’s no way it could possibly be intractable besides assuming it is.

I’m not anti-security theater in principle. I could do the Matt Yglesias take “acktually school shootings are an infinitesimally small fraction of violence”. eeeeeh yeah ok but it is extremely terrorizing. My hot take (and remember my first paragraph, I favor ANYthing much more than I favor my OWN opinion) is that millions of kids spending their childhood being afraid with zero say in where they spend their weekdays is as atrociously evil as the gunmen they’re scared of. So here the only security theater I’m against is if it’s unconvincing.

I’m not going to go through mental health, outreach, suicide. There’s so many things we could do that we have choice paralysis.

More doing, less thinking. More experimenting, more failure and lots lots more action that kids see we’re doing for them and can understand and follow.

Kids have zero say in most aspects of their lives so it’s impossible to exaggerate how unjust this whole thing is. It’s so unjust that I’d even support multiple TSA’s worth of security theater (9/11 had justification so I don’t support actual TSA security theater).