I do not like a special interest, such as the NRA, to ask the United States Congress to spend more of my tax dollars. Like our current Republican congressmen, the NRA lacks cogent thought and are spineless. Spending more money that we do not have will not solve this problem. What needs to be done is getting rid of a lot of the gun laws we have on the books. This is at the state and federal level. There should be no gun free zones. Teachers, parents, and administrators should be allowed to carry weapons anywhere they want. Criminals certainly do, and they do no go through background checks. The problem will never be fully solved since you can't ban mental disease.
There was a time, not so long ago, that students would bring shotguns and rifles to school (left in their vehicles) to go hunting after school. That was normal for where I live in PA. It was also at a time there there was far less school security. Now, there is a resource officer at my daughter's high school. There are no gang problems, rampant drug problems - just kids being kids and a lot of mandatory anti-bullying programs.
This is teaching boys to rely on government to solve all of their problems, making them timid and weak and not to stand up to the real world. Meanwhile the lard ass resource officer lacks all ability to truly protect the students. Police are only minutes away when you immediately need them. Lard ass police officers take even longer.
that is not conservative either. Personal responsibility is not blaming someone else for ones lack of self control . Watching violent movies is no excuse for mass murder
Your ideas are great. Obamacare and social security should also be repealed. Too bad they will never happen.
US politics is a like a NASCAR race, speeding to the left , politicians are forced to do what they can as they struggle for pole position, turning right is not an option unfortunately
Better a fat, old guy than a buzzcut juicer! Already we see stories all over the country of these school cops arresting little kids for things that we used to stand in the corner for. The combination of public school "zero tolerance" tyrants + bad cops is a recipe for disaster. Just what we need. Mary's Little Lamb follows her to school one day, and the cop blows it away because it appeared threatening. ;)
Seriously. Perhaps cops in schools make sense in some places. But, I don't like it. And it definitely shouldn't be federally mandated.