RI To Put ‘Threat Assessment Teams’ Into Schools To Combat Shootings

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, TJ Mullinax, File

The one thing none of us want to see is another school shooting. If that era of American history is behind us, then good riddance.

Regardless of any political ramifications, the truth is that school shootings hit many of us in the gut because we have children. We’re torn by competing emotions. On the one hand, we’re sorrowful over the loss of life and mourn with the grieving parents. On the other, we’re thankful that our children will be coming home.

Since Parkland, the only real thing we’ve heard out of many has been to restrict gun ownership, as if punishing law-abiding citizens for the acts of a maniac is somehow the reasonable solution to a horrific problem. Anyone opposing gun control has been accused of enabling the next mass shooter, despite clear efforts to find some other kind of solution.

In Rhode Island, legislators are trying something along those lines.

As gun-control advocates push for action on a proposed school firearms ban, House lawmakers Wednesday approved a different approach to preventing school shootings: new rules requiring local school districts to create “threat assessment teams” to look for potentially dangerous students.

These teams of guidance counselors, administrators, …Read the Rest

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