The deputy secretary for driver and Vehicle Services at the Pennsylvania Department of transportation on driverless vehicles. Host reporting this morning that democrats are serious over actions by Senate Democrats and how they handled the shutdown in a result for daca. And Chuck Schumer says there will be no money for a border wall, as part of an agreement that would have resolved the docket issued. Daca issue. That happening on washington in washington. Is go shooting this week in the New York Times reporting that there has been a School Shooting every day since the beginning of this year. We will ask your thoughts and how to best deal with the topic of schoolhootings. We invite you to call various lines. If you are a parent or a student, give us a call at 202 7488000. If you are an educator, 202 7488001. If you are in Law Enforcement, 202 7488002. And for all others, 202 7488003. If you want to post on our twitter feed do so at cspanwj. You can also post our Facebook Page. These are the headlines from newspapers stemming from kentucky. This is the lexington Herald Leader this money with the headline kentucky has go shooting leaves two dead, 17 injured. This shooting taking place at the Marshall County high school. Killed. , two 17 injured and five tickets in nashville for treatment. Unnamed suspect taken into custody. If you go to the pages of the daily beast, in writing about this, these shootings, they highlight the fact that they were to shootings this week and 14 wounded, adding the shooting occurred in benson, kentucky, a 15yearold male opened fire with a handgun, 14 people shot and two of them, to students, killed. Another shooting in texath week as well, in austin. , a gunman shot a 15yearold girl at italy high school. The victim was hospitalized. Studentnd shooter, a charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. That is according to the District Attorney on tuesday. The suspect not named in that shooting. With those in mind, your thoughts on School Shootings and how to address them. For the hour we invite you to call in on specific lines. For parents and students to give your thinking, 202 7488000. For educators, 202 7488001. For those in Law Enforcement, 202 7488002. And for all others, 202 7488003. Again, if you want to post on our twitter feed you can do so at cspanwj. You can also post on our Facebook Page. Whichffords law center, deals with shootings, the composite report taking a look at can violence in schools across the United States, when it comes to reducing at k12 schools, shooting shock us because these are safe havens. A report issued by the u. S. Department of education and betweenfound that 19922006, 50 times as many murders of youngeople occurred away from schools rather than at school. 140 times with many suicides performed off school property. And are in the 2010 school year, at least one homicide of a school youth for 3. 5 million enrolled students. It also talks about gun free zones, saying that federal and state laws ensuring that schools are gun free has helped make the12 schools even safer, reducing gun violence in these places. Schools associated with homicide when these rules were adopted and fewer students are carrying guns. That is some of the things that, as far as the facts, that we will show you during the hour when it comes to School Shootings. When it comes to that act, it was signed in 1990, president bush, and under the ruling prohibits the carrying of a loaded or unlocked firearm within 1000 feet of a public, private or parochial k12 school could in reference of the shooting school. In reference to the kentucky shooting, this was on the floor, before the full extent of those killed and injured were known, here is senator Mitch Mcconnell from yesterday. [video clip] this might be in with reports of a tragedy at Marshall County high school in benton county, kentucky. Officials have confirmed at least one death in several injuries. My staff is at the high school and is in close contact with local officials. They are monitoring this situation and will be providing you with updates throughout the day. I know that i speak for communities across my home state and sending prayers of comfort and healing to students, faculty and everyone affected by this violence. Our hearts are with the entire community of Marshall County, and our gratitude is with the First Responders who rushed into harms way. Host kentucky senator rand paul sending out a tweet, deeply saddened by the news that a benton, kentucky, closely monitoring the situation we are praying for those that are injured, as well as family, friends and heroic First Responders. We start on the topic of School Shootings and how to address them with riley in germantown, maryland, in educator an educator. Go ahead. Caller i think it is so crazy, because we all know the things that should happen in order to prevent this kind of violence at schools, and yet it is not happening. We need more intelligent gun control laws and we need to be putting more money into the counselingepartments at schools. There is a Mental Health issue in this country that is not being addressed and we keep cutting funding to education, and of course you cannot make the class sizes any bigger, so they start trimming down on things that seem unnecessary, like a counselors. Host you list yourself as an educator, what grade do you teach . Caller the seventh grade. Host when it comes to your school, as far as preparedness, what is the plan in place for Something Like an act of violence with a gun . Caller it is a disturbing plan, they make an announcement, we going to code red, and we walk all the doors to the classrooms and the children are supposed to crouch on the floor in an area where somebody, if they broke through the window with a firearm, they would not be able to shoot everyone. And that is what we tell children, but it is not worth it to have intelligent gun control laws, you need to just crouch on the floor and hope you are ok. Host when it comes to the door of the classroom, is it barred or is it a basic lock on the door already . Caller basic lock on the door, and if you have those windows, i just had wiring in them, but im sure you could break right through. Host arlene, a parent from cleveland, ohio. Go ahead. Caller thank you. Our children have no so forth. Self worth. Anytime you find a child willing to die at an early age, there is something wrong. Weve educated all these people at harvard and yield and so forth, but they have no common sense yale and if so forth, but they have no common sense. There are no neighborhoods and no fathers in these homes. Anytime you find young people willing to die at an early age, you cang is wrong and do whatever you want with these activated, i get so it is common sense. We didnt used to have that. They took fathers out of the home, now the mothers want to work and you are putting them in day care, and when you come home you are on the phone and you do not talk to kids. Host you think those factors are leading up to these of School Shootings . Caller yes, these are young children. They are just beginning to learn and know who they are. You talk about selfworth from day one. Host an educator from washington, matt. Caller yes, ok, there are so many factors to this problem. I just want to comment on one. It is about time we have security cameras throughout our schools, including in a very classrooms. Host you are breaking up a little. Can you get closer to the phone . Go ahead. Caller we need security cameras through all of our schools, including our classrooms. That is one solution. It is not the solution, but secured cameras are everywhere but security cameras are everywhere, why are they not in our schools . It would help to solve the problem. False allegations against teachers, and anytime there is any kind of suspected improprieties, we could have a camera and it is either on the camera or it is not. That is one possible solution. Cameras in the classrooms and in the school as a deterrent. Host so where you teach there are no cameras or anything like that . Caller i am not authorized to comment, but iieve each School District has their own policies, ok . They have their own licies. I think that School Unions would fight back, classroom cameras and one of the things they would fight is they would say it would be used unfairly evaluate teachers, but the thing is think about it, if there is a gas station and there is a camera, you look at the camera. Host what about the idea of maybe a School Resource officer states the idea by some about Arming Teachers . Caller again, it comes down to budgets. They are flatlined, so how will you find it . Fund it . I think it is great, but can you really fund it . Host we will go to a parent. Zachary, good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. I wanted to comment, i disagree about the camera angle. But i think actually it is more the mentality of how you have treated these tools of modern times. A caller mentioned Mental Health issues, that is part of it as well. It is the way that we treat students and children and how they are brought up in the tedness. The regiment i you could look at the compulsory education, it is like a prison for students to come into. They are told where to go, what to do, they are constantly monitored. Ice to work in a i used to work in a Public School, i trained teachers in i. T. And seeing it from that side they have programs inside the schools, but the way the Public School system works is they have a calendar load, all the standardized testing and the environment is not conducive to raising young people to be really productive, it is more to educate them to become these memorization entities in society, so they are good at working at their jobs and listening to direction and that sort of thing. Host according to Campus Safety magazine, they have a statistic from the center for disease control. The cdc counted 120 preinstances of students using guns between july of 1992 and june of 1999. Shootings,school 93. 5 of the shooters were male. Shootersthe perpetuated homicide, and of those, 15. 6 of shooters killed multiple people. Off of twitter, the school where i talked had a grt protection, so if anybody who was carrying a gun across the large campus, sounds would go off. We never had a shooting. The killings are a new normal. If somebody cannot say how they feel about being charged, the action is left to killing. I know it. We have caroline on the line. Caller good morning. Say, untiled to congress can do something and change the law, they have had one of their own shot. They do not follow through. And until that is done, and the pockets,out of their nothing will be done or changed. Host specifically, what should they do . Bush and congress do then what should congress do then . Caller they need to make the laws stronger or improve them some which way, because we have it here, it is all over. And it has to quit. Thank you. Host a parent in darlington, pennsylvania. Sue, go ahead. Caller hello, my comments is i think america should start where we are and where we are in this country for our entertainment, child toouth, for any put the tv on is nothing but sex , guts, violence, is treated like a sports. What are we showing, what are we teaching our children in this country . We have parents that were two jobs. The father, the mother, who is teaching our children today . Host why do you believe all of those factors contribute to gun shootings . Caller why do you think they do . If that is all you see on tv and a young child loses their innocence as soon as they are able to comprehend what they are watching on tv, what happened to all of the shows that shows heroes . What happened to all the news that shows the goodness in this world . Is there not any left . Why is it that we are letting our children run the streets and being picked up with drugs . Our doctors are putting out these opiates. Why isnt all of this managed . Then you havthese kids that have no selfrespect, ty have no honor, they have no pride. Who is there to teach them that . Jersey. Rsha in new caller good morning and thank you for cspan. Toant the School Shootings be stopped. The government has to properly laws. S gun control, pass politicians have become too involved in shutting down the addressingand not what is important, our children. The nra has to stop being political and start thinking of people. I am very upset with what is going on. Host how far should the government go as far as the issue of guns and gun control, would you say do not allow any guns in certain situations, do you talk about Mental Health what aspects . Caller i am talking about Mental Health, we have an opioid crisis, we have children who may be taking drugs. The government has to start with enacting laws and looking at gun control. Too many guns in the hands of many children. Host Campus Safety magazine also put out information for in another report, researchers from the department of education, study and 37 incidents of schoolbased violence, between 19742000, some reports according to that, says all the attacks were committed by males, some of them with a major loss, 78 of attackers had a history of suicidal thoughts prior to attacks, 71 of attackers felled a bullied, threatened, or injured by others prior to the incident, adding that in several cases the harassment was longstanding or severe, also that all the attackers, 95 , were karen students at were current students at the school. Hello . Caller i have a comment about the School Shootings. I feel some of these students, for example this last one, possibly was due to a girlfriend, boyfriend, jealousy kids do not know how to handle reallife. Y lot of them are raised, the are raising themselves because their parents both work. When they come home they are too tired to teach them anything. So schools teach them education, skills andthese life how to handle problems and more laws is not going to solve the problem. I think it starts at home and hopefully people will understand that, because most schools probably do have cameras. A resource officer might be able to stop sometimes, but i do not think that is the answer either because there is only one in a large school, so they cannot be everywhere at one time. And so these kids getting the guns from their parents, or whoever, and they are angry. There is a lot of anger in these kids and they needed someone to need someone to see the signs and understand and try to resolve them in some way. Site that puts the information in graphic form has taken a look at School Shootings between 19822017 tech universin blacksburg in 2017 with 33 fatalities, 23 injured, newtown, connecticut with 28 killed and 200, columbine with 13 killed and 24 injured, and the list goes on. This is from 2007 into close all the way to 2017. A number of information. Linda from colonial beach, a parent, hello. Caller yes, i want to comment on the School Shootings. I think a lot of it has to do with bullying in the schools. Ca if they can get that lmed down where the kids are not coming into the schools and shooting is the answer, i think that would have a lot to do with it. Host do you have schoolage children . Do. Er yes, i ive won in middle school and one in elementary school. Host when you talk about bullying, is that something you hear firsthand from your children . Caller yes, my son there is a lot of bullying in his school. He has a resource officer there and has beenubjected to bullying in school. And we have talked to him. I agree with some of what is being said about the parents. We both work. Today im off. To talkalways take time to him and tell him that there are different ways to deal with bullying. And host you mentioned a resource officer, what if the school was to go further with may be metal detectors or say the arming of teachers, is that something you feel comfortable with . Caller i would be comfortable with that, as long as they are properly trained on the situation of how to handle themselves when they are carrying, and i would be fine with that. Great. Etectors would be as long as there is a way to keep the guns and knives out of the school, i think it would be fine. Host those are some of the comments we have heard in the first 20 minutes of our program. Two shootings this week, the latest in kentucky. We are asking you to give your thoughts on how to address School Shootings. You heard from parents, teachers, from others, and here is your chance to give us your input. If you are a parent, 202 7488000. If y are an educator, 202 7488001. Members of Law Enforcement, we invite you to call 202 7488002. And for all others, 202 7488003. John andhers line, westminster, maryland. Hi, i have a followup to a previous caller that mentioned cameras in schools into my thought was that if amazon can develop a system that can track people going in and out of a store, taking items, why couldnt they develop Something Like that for schools that could sense if a firearm is brought near a school, in a school, near the entryway to a school, and may be set off an alarm . Host do you think that technology or some somewhere technology, if it existed, the question would come to if it is incorporated . How would that go over . Caller it might be a cost, but i thinks its systems think since the systems have already been developed a figure could be implemented and if it was proven through testing, it could save lives. And i think that