THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT: LET'S HARDEN OUR SCHOOLS.

ICHEOKU says any one arguing against the proposal by the president to fortify our schools and make it nearly impregnable is doing so only to score some cheap gotcha points. The White House is hardened; the Congress is hardened; military fortes are hardened; our airports are hardened; the banks are hardened; the stores and malls are hardened; even the various homes of our celebrities are hardened. So why not our children's schools?

The question which non of these anti-gun activists, majority of who are protected by gun totting security guards, are not answering is why not also make the gathering place of our young children and leaders of tomorrow, safe enough and fully protected from the savagery that is mass shootings? Why not also defend their place of learning like we depend and protect other areas of our common interest. What value do we actually place on our children not to want to protect them accordingly from harm. Like President Donald John Trump rightly articulated, those cowards who go about shooting up our schools and killing innocent children will not dare if they knew they will also be fired at and possibly killed in the process. These animals are terrorists who are afraid of being confronted and are always looking for easy targets of opportunity; hence they creep in and waylay innocent school children who are unarmed, defenseless and cannot fight back. 

How often do those crazy bastards go shooting their way inside an airport or prison or military formations or police stations or at government offices. The only reason they do not try it is that they know what the ruthless consequences of their action will be and most times, as we are finding out from Nikolas Cruz, the Florida High School shooter, is that they do not want to die. They are cowards and they have no liver; but simply acting out their fantasies and inexplicable machismo by attacking soft targets with defenseless children. They can be checkmated with fortifying the schools to make them harder if not impenetrable and hence frustrate their murderous mania. It will not take too much to build up the required defenses and only a prioritizing of our issues is required to mission accomplish on this. Such fortification can be funded through government and private sector participation where the government cannot afford to fully fund it. 

If the government cannot do it, every home owner within every school district should be made to come up with the much needed funds with which to make our schools safer and more difficult for these animals to prey upon. 

It will not cost too much when compared to the lives lost as a result of inaction.We can start by fencing the schools, installing metal detectors at all entry points of schools and hiring armed guards to patrol the schools in a their security vehicles; and holed up in their offices when not on patrol, until summoned either by gun shots fired or call for help. They will be there to distract the attacker by engaging him while waiting for the police to arrive. Also such a security details should be fully uniformed in order to avoid their being mistaken as the attacker by the arriving police. The solution to end this scourge is simple and it is also affordable; and it should therefore be implemented immediately. Our children are our best and most valuable assets and they should be protected with all we have and can summon. We should do it now and we should do it right. Let's harden the gaddam schools now and make our children safe and as a correlation guarantee the future of our civilization.