Georgia school shooting, one solution

By John GlavinRetired Cincinnati teacherThe simplest step that likely would have stopped the murder of four and hospitalization of nine more at the recent mass shooting at Apalachee High School in northern Georgia would also have been the most disruptive. And yet it may become the way of the future, including in Cincinnati.& No, I’m not talking about identifying mentally imbalanced people. Or arming teachers. Or putting a police officer in the school. All that was available at the school. Even better, the school staff were recently equipped with state-of-the-art badges with buttons that immediately alerted authorities of a lethal emergency, and one was used. And two armed police responded who did prevent higher numbers of horror.& And no, assault rifles like the one used in this situation are not going to be banned, especially in Georgia, where gun laws are as wispy as a morning breeze.& The fact is the 14-year-old murderer had been previously identified as a threat because he’d been reported for online threats to shoot up a school, and his father was interviewed as well, who followed up by buying the same son the assault rifle used in the shooting only months later.& None of the...