Posted on 04/17/2007 8:10:21 PM PDT by Sam_Damon
EDITOR'S NOTE: This exclusive interview, copyright © by JPFO, puts to rest the ongoing debate of how to deal with the ever increasing violence and bloodshed in America's schools, by showing proven solutions (not just theories) to the problem. Rest assured the answer is not in more "gun control", as the gun prohibitionists would want to brainwash America into believing. In fact, the problem IS gun control.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpfo.org ...
Article itself is an excellent summary of the "Israeli Solution" to creeps who choose to shoot up schools in order to gain attention. The author interviews a one-time RAND corporation researcher. He references the Maalot massacre in 1974 as a turning point concerning the armed citizen in Isreal. Indeed, the Israelis came to realize the problem with school protection was gun control. One sentence is well worth quoting:
"When the message got around to the PLO groups and a couple infiltration attempts failed, the attacks against schools ceased."
Prayers for the families at Virginia Tech who lost loved ones, or have one right now in hospital.
Bull$hit.
Schools get attacked a lot; police stations don't.
Interesting point. Police stations do have guns and don't get attacked. I haven’t thought of that.
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
—Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and Punishment (1764).
Allow faculty to carry and offer incentives for those that do. Problem solved.
Rank them on markesmanship and pay them accordingly.
I trust you will be forthcoming with your own solution consisting of more than one quasi-word.
How about...
Require faculty to carry and offer incentives for them to "hone their skills".
It won't happen in todays liberal schools but I can dream.
The creepy part is, I was in class while the shooting was going on(before we found out) and the professor was talking about how most of the faculty in the department had guns on campus and went to ranges together "ages ago". My prof bought a gun back then just to fit in.
How times have changed.
Exactly right.
If all or most of those kids have grown up around guns, knew how to use them and carried, the gunman would have gone down in the first two minutes, while most of the students surviving.
This is no reflection on the victims, because they were victims not only of the gunman, but also of our culture, that teaches them that they need to fear guns, instead of learning to use them, not to mention the laws, which prohibit them from carrying and using them, to defend themselves against crazed gunmen and terrorists.
Gunmen, terrorists all prey on the defenseless.
Fortunate that such men were crucial at the founding.
Glad you are safe.
Get a concealed permit and practice,practice,practice.
Gun control is hitting what you aim at. That’s the only kind of gun control I’m for.
EXCELLENT ARTICLE.
THANKS.
Are you an anti-gun troll or what?
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