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Parents Hesitant About NRA Armed Schools Proposal
ABC New ^ | December 21, | CHRISTINE ARMARIO AP Education Writer

Posted on 12/21/2012 11:06:23 AM PST by mdittmar

Parents and administrators' reactions are ranging from hesitation to anger over a proposal by the nation's largest gun-rights lobby to put an armed police officer in every school.

Superintendent Hank Grishman of the Jericho, N.Y., schools on Long Island says he is outraged by the idea. He says putting more guns in schools won't make children safer, and could even put them in the line of more gunfire.

Parent Helen Gym in Philadelphia believes the proposal is "extraordinarily opportunistic."

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KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; nra; secondamendment
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That was quick;)
1 posted on 12/21/2012 11:06:30 AM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Gungrabbing horseshit. They, the supposed parents concerned over their children’s safety wouldn’t think twice if a police officer entered their school with a (gawd, dread!) gun strapped to their waist, would they?

Why would a trained, sanctioned, checked-out, dedicated protector of their children be any different. Horseshit, just liberal horseshit.


2 posted on 12/21/2012 11:11:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: mdittmar
That was quick;)

Very quick. "It's almost like they were organized."

Community organized, that is.

Mr. niteowl77

3 posted on 12/21/2012 11:13:05 AM PST by niteowl77 (Oh, crap.)
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To: mdittmar
reactions are ranging from hesitation to anger

No approval, no thoughtful consideration. Nope, the entire range of reactions is negative.

Superintendent Hank Grishman of the Jericho, N.Y., schools on Long Island says he is outraged by the idea. He says putting more guns in schools won't make children safer, and could even put them in the line of more gunfire.

Hey, stuperintendent, the Newtown shooting didn't stop until the cops showed up and brought whole lot more guns into the school.

4 posted on 12/21/2012 11:13:23 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: Gaffer

I might add that IF these ‘parents’ are legitimate and not politically inclined against guns, then one’s only conclusion to this is that the only way they can assure their children aren’t shot, is that they expect that each and every goddam gun in this country is banned and confiscated. Something that only a complete idiot would assume possible.


5 posted on 12/21/2012 11:13:46 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: mdittmar
Even though the most liberal President in history was just re-elected, I think this current debate is going to work in our favor.

There's too much information getting out there about how guns aid in self-defense.

I do believe that many, many schools and other institutions are going to employ armed guards in the wake of this debate thereby cutting down on gun violence.

And much more of the public will see that the NRA and gun advocates have been right all this time.

6 posted on 12/21/2012 11:14:21 AM PST by what's up
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To: mdittmar; Grampa Dave; tubebender; dixiechick2000; Liz; marsh2; AuntB; calcowgirl

Oh sure! This crappola from the same network that gave us George Steponallofus in the debates with his non-sequiter and irrelevant questions designed to trigger a “GOP War On Women” smoke screen. You bet they are quick!!!


7 posted on 12/21/2012 11:14:36 AM PST by SierraWasp (Blessed are they who prospect, dig & drill, for they are the primary producers of new, real wealth!!)
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They aren’t quick...they planned this -— as soon as the first news came.


8 posted on 12/21/2012 11:15:24 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: mdittmar

Quick response indeed! You couldn’t find an school administrator or teacher this time of year. Christmas vacation & “snow day” on top of it, doncha know?


9 posted on 12/21/2012 11:16:32 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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Let's look at flying commercially. The airport perimeter is secure and you have armed sky marshals on board the aircraft.

Let's look at schools. You have a porous perimeter that isn't very secure, even with the doors locked, and you have no armed presence inside.

Are leftists that stupid? Are they so brainwashed that their irrational fear of guns trumps the lives of the children entrusted to their care? This is where the debate needs to start. Schools have no control over external factors such as the mentally ill, violent video games that desensitize, the number of firearms owned by the public, the amount of ammo out there, etc. School administrators only control their respective schools. They need to start thinking in terms of securing their perimeter and having staff available as first responders, because when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

10 posted on 12/21/2012 11:16:51 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Hank Grishman, if we follow what he said very carefully, doesn't want MORE guns in the schools ~

So, where are the guns that are already in the schools?

His statement is rather self-incriminating ~ because he clearly implies there are a lot of guns in the schools he knows about.

11 posted on 12/21/2012 11:18:17 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: mdittmar
I say we should arm the lunch ladies.


12 posted on 12/21/2012 11:19:01 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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“Superintendent Hank Grishman of the Jericho, N.Y., schools on Long Island says he is outraged by the idea. He says putting more guns in schools won’t make children safer, and could even put them in the line of more gunfire.”

Freaking a-hole. The only thing that wouldnt outrage him is to punish hundreds of millions of gun owners for the action of a lunatic. Better to lock up the lunatics and leave the rest of us alone.


13 posted on 12/21/2012 11:19:15 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: mdittmar

There are schools that are in high crime areas that have low rates of crime on campus. I went to a private high school in one of the worst areas of Los Angeles. The campus is surrounded by walls and there are armed guards. The University of Southern California is another example. Newtown type massacres don’t happen there like they do at gun free schools.


14 posted on 12/21/2012 11:21:28 AM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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Superintendent Hank Grishman of the Jericho, N.Y., schools on Long Island says he is outraged by the idea. He says putting more guns in schools won't make children safer, and could even put them in the line of more gunfire.

Hank is irrational and should be fired immediately.

Hank is inviting a Sandy Hook style massacre at the schools of which he is the superintendent.

Shame on Hank!

15 posted on 12/21/2012 11:22:07 AM PST by TheDon (Criminalizing self defense contributed to the Sandy Hook massacre.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

If I were a kid, I’d rather be in “the line of more gunfire” if the gunfire is coming from someone trying to kill the lunatic who is trying to murder me...rather than just be taking bullets from the lunatic. This “superintendent” is insane.


16 posted on 12/21/2012 11:22:48 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

There is a guard with a gun in every public building.


17 posted on 12/21/2012 11:23:00 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: mdittmar

Of course there “Concerned” . They always are. /s.


18 posted on 12/21/2012 11:23:14 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: mdittmar
He says putting more guns in schools won't make children safer, and could even put them in the line of more gunfire.<<

Sure..instead of having trained armed people already at the school....let the cops show up 15 minutes after the shooting starts and disarm the cops at the door so the cops wont “put them in the line of more gunfire”

makes great liberal sense to me!....Geez!..../s (Cops aren't trained nearly as well for those situations as many ex-military NRA members...)

19 posted on 12/21/2012 11:24:14 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: KarlInOhio

Let us follow this to its conclusion. These parents are adamantly opposed to duly approved firearms in their schools. Even if all the good guys in the country were to hand in their guns tomorrow, the bad guys would still have theirs or would be able to buy them in a newly thriving black market. Therefore, these parents must be satisfied waiting for the police to arrive on the scene twenty minutes later. A this point they don’t need the police, just the CSI folks.


20 posted on 12/21/2012 11:25:43 AM PST by dogcaller
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