Posted on 12/28/2012 1:06:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Twice, I have had the unpleasant task of assisting school districts in the aftermath of school shootings. First, Columbine, and then in 2006, an intruder took a classroom hostage in Platte Canyon just west of Columbine, and killed a student. The news from Newtown, Conn., last week was both sickening and infuriating.
Everyone, including the gun industry, acknowledges that a risk of catastrophic loss is created when irresponsible persons are given access to firearms. The industry's response is that we can negate this risk by placing more guns in the hands of responsible persons. It's a nice piece of marketing, but I don't buy it.
The notion that if only Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had been confronted by someone with a firearm, the massacre at Columbine might have been diminished ignores that Harris and Klebold were confronted by someone with a firearm, someone trained to use it -- the Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy assigned to the school. Harris and Klebold, however, were better armed. They laid down a fusillade, retreated into the building and began killing in earnest.
When irresponsible people with guns expect to be confronted by responsible people with guns, they get bigger guns. The Aurora theater shooter, armored and armed with high capacity magazines, was the high school shooter as a graduate student.
If the gun industry is to be taken at its word, it seeks to put firearms in the hands of responsible owners. Nonetheless, 30,000 gun-related deaths per year is compelling evidence that the gun industry consistently, and profitably, oversells its intended market. Yet, the consequences of these over-sales are borne by victims. We should place the risk of over-sales on the people who profit from the sales...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
Mr. Stuller is admitted to practice law in the State of Colorado, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He has also been named a Best Lawyer in America® multiple times. Practice Areas: Schools & Education (60%), Civil Rights/First Amendment (20%), Appellate (20%)
Folks, this is Boulder.
Their joke of a Police force couldn’t even find a murdered child in the home of their parents...after the parents claimed she had been “kidnapped.”
Not only are we not looking at the sharpest knives in the drawer...but...“... You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.”
Simply writing a law or statute, with no intention of actually enforcing it except on the unwary, is not a good allocation of resources. It clutters up the law books and serves only as a rule to be broken for the convenience of criminals, at the expense of their potential or very real victims.
One more obstacle for taking charge of your own personal safety has just be erected.
Response time for a call to 911 to arrive on scene - five to thirty minutes.
Response time for a slug to arrive in the perpetrator´s chest when the trigger is pulled - approximately 0.08 seconds.
so little time... so much stupid
Well, sounds like ‘ole ambulance chasin’ Stu has a racket. Got a good thing goin’ on Stu-pid?
I suppose that if one were to park a car bomb at a school then no amount of armament would be enough to stop the slaughter. With that in mind, the only solution is to decentralize schools, perhaps start encouraging parents to home school (as if poor performance and normal everyday school violence isn't enough motivation). I'm sure the NEA would jump all over that....not.
There was no Deputy assigned to Columbine. He was a Security Guard whose gun was locked in the trunk of the car two blocks away.
This is ole Stu’s bid to bring back the sue the deepest pockets initiative. It is about nothing more than money in his pocket.
Not going to happen Stu, Esq.
Stick it, Stu!
None of these firearm statistics address the LARGEST cause of death to innocent victims, which remains atheistic/Marxist/socialist governments once they have achieved dictatorial rule. Consider:
Mao: 75 millions dead;
Stalin: 50 millions dead;
Hitler: 25 millions dead;
and then we have Castro, Pol Pot, Lenin (the destruction of the white Russians); and others.
These numbers are 6 orders of magnitude higher than the sum of homicides committed by individuals.
The US Founders, in the wisdom of their recent experience and Christian values, realized that the ONLY safeguard against such atrocities is an armed and vigilant society of free men.
When someone explains how else we will prevent tyranny (which is fast gaining ground) I will consider revising my stand on the 2nd Amendment.
LandShark Stuller is a stellar example of fully developed “Boulder Dementia Syndrome”.
Folks in Boulder deserve what the predators in two feet like Stuller do to them, as they richly deserve what the predators on four feet do to their children and pets.
“that the gun industry consistently, and profitably, oversells its intended market. “
Lawyers are to blame for many deaths. As in Rome, maybe we should kill the lawyers first?
The cop at Columbine ran away instead of trying to confront Dylan or Klebold.
Casey Anthony would not like that ban...
If the gun industry is to be taken at its word, it seeks to put firearms in the hands of responsible owners. Nonetheless, 30,000 gun-related deaths per year is compelling evidence that the gun industry consistently, and profitably, oversells its intended market.-I think it’s estimated that there are a thousand legally owned guns in the country for every (annual) gun murder. If that is anything like accurate, it is patent that the vast preponderance of guns are bought - and used - strictly for defensive purposes. And it is scarcely to be thought that the gun is useful or needful only for defense against other guns; nowhere is it written that people who have no offensive intent are immune from violence if neither the defensive nor the offensive combatant has a firearm.The “logic” of weapon control does not therefore end with high-capacity magazines or even with repeating rifles/pistols - it leads into knife - and tool - control. Which no one supposes is of any help for the senior citizen confronted by a fatherless teen . . .
Mr. Stuller is admitted to practice law in the State of Colorado,
I wonder if he is smart enough to read the history of the last century
? well over a hundred million people murdered by the governments because they had no fire arms.
When seconds count, LEOs who are not obligated to prevent any killing small or large, are just minutes away!
Any honest cop will verify that.
When seconds count, LEOs who are not obligated to prevent any killing small or large, are just minutes away!
Any honest cop will verify that.
On the flip side: Liberals, including lawyers, acknowledge that there is a risk of catastrophic impact when right-minded, Freedom-loving People practice the 1st Amendment. Their response is that they can negate the risk by having more left-wingnuts writing articles and by suppressing the use of the 1st Amendment for those who love Freedom. It's a twisted and evil concept and I don't buy it...
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