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Rep. Tony Cornish: Schools need firearms
Mpls Star Tribune ^ | 12/27/12 | TONY CORNISH

Posted on 12/28/2012 11:03:59 AM PST by rhema

As one of your state representatives, I back the National Rifle Association's proposal 100 percent, inasmuch as it calls for an armed guard of some type in every school.

No. I'm not an NRA pawn, and I don't take a dime from them, directly or through other channels.

It's interesting how some legislators speak to the public with what they think might be a popular response for the media. U.S. Rep. Tim Walz recently said he was shocked with the NRA's proposal to put an armed cop in each school, in what he thought would turn schools into "armed encampments."

Actually, Walz's home school district in Mankato, where he taught, has had armed cops in its schools for years, partially paid by the district. Three surrounding rural school districts also pay to have armed cops in their schools. They are accepted well by teachers, students and staff and give a measure of security.

Churches in the metro area have had uniformed cops walking through the halls in back of their sanctuaries and around classrooms full of kids for years, armed with .40-caliber Glocks and with Tasers. If churches feel comfortable protecting children with cops, shouldn't schools?

Then we heard from the education community, which claimed to have "experts" in the field of security and doesn't want "armed teachers." These alleged experts don't seem to realize that armed teachers have been allowed by state law for years in Minnesota and that some have taken advantage of it. I know there are teachers who carry while instructing.

Here's the bottom line: When a psycho pulls up out front, you have seconds to act. A camera won't do any good unless there's a gun behind it.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: banglist; cornish; guncontrol; nra; secondamendment; walz

1 posted on 12/28/2012 11:04:09 AM PST by rhema
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To: MplsSteve
The flaming libs who frequent the Strib didn't like this reader's comment: I'm amused at some folks' negative responses to this idea. Sure, there are still some devils in the details. But after 9/11, there was overwhelming support for providing armed Air Marshalls aboard aircraft and arming pilots. Parents, have you taken your kid aboard an airline flight lately? Have you taken your kid to a sporting event or concert where there were also armed guards and police? Seriously, did you or did you *not* feel safer because of their presence? Of course you did. Why then, do you same people balk at this same idea? I'll tell you exactly why! It is because you desperately want to cling to a fuzzy-wuzzy, idyllic vision of care-free school days. Bah! No matter if you like it or not, these days, our schools have become the soft-targets of-choice for wack-o's and terrorists. So tell me now, which is your highest priority, parents? To protect your cherished, sappy-happy, idealistic dreams of a Beaver Cleaver school-days yesteryear? Or to protect your kids from today's real threats?
2 posted on 12/28/2012 11:09:56 AM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: rhema

The proposal makes a lot of sense. An armed guard or cop at the school not only will deter crazed shooters from showing up but may suppress crime generally on the premises including drug dealing, assaults, etc. The cop doesn’t even have to be full-time for deterrent value to be effective but simply frequent but variable visits.


3 posted on 12/28/2012 11:15:47 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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To: rhema

If guns are all evil, why do most Congresscritters have armed security at their kid’s schools?


4 posted on 12/28/2012 11:19:38 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: rhema
Amazing how many of the brain-dead commented rebuking the idea.
One with sense said:
"If its O.K. to have armed cops at the school AFTER a shooting, whats wrong with having them there BEFORE?"

as in 'they might prevent the shooting'...
Derp!
5 posted on 12/28/2012 12:45:06 PM PST by 45semi (Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from existential evil.-Packwoods Law)
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To: 45semi
"If its O.K. to have armed cops at the school AFTER a shooting, whats wrong with having them there BEFORE?"

Don't a good many schools already employ capable security at athletic (and some social) events?

6 posted on 12/28/2012 1:04:30 PM PST by Baynative
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To: rhema

Responsible security might be a good moving. Arming teachers is out of the question; 95% of them are so liberal they would never go near a firearm for any reason.


7 posted on 12/28/2012 1:08:49 PM PST by Baynative
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To: rhema

Tim Walz seems like a first class, A1 PUTZ:

Walz received a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood in 2012, from the ACLU in 2011, from the American Immigration Lawyers Association in 2009-10, from the AFL-CIO in 2010, from the Teamsters in 2009-10, and from NOW in 2007. In recent years he has received one-digit ratings from the National Taxpayers’ Union, Citizens against Government Waste, Americans for Tax Reform, and Freedom Works. The US Chamber of Commerce gave him a 25% rating in 2010.

Wikipedia


8 posted on 12/28/2012 1:35:48 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
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To: Baynative

” Arming teachers is out of the question; 95% of them are so liberal they would never go near a firearm for any reason.”

Not correct. There are many CCW license holders in our education establishment.


9 posted on 12/28/2012 2:33:53 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: rhema

> If churches feel comfortable protecting children with cops,
> shouldn’t schools?

The bigger and most important question is, if the politicians can have armed protection in their office buildings, travel with armed bodyguards, if virtually every place these politicians go is protected by armed security with REAL machine guns and body armor, then why would they deny that same security for your kids? Also, if they can send their kids to private schools with armed security, why can’t they extend that kind of protection to the “public” schools?

The REAL answer is that they are cynical, lying, hypocritical, filthy, demonic TYRANTS who want to strip us of our liberties, MOST especially the right to self-defense, and protecting the public schools with armed security does not promote that goal.

We need to repeat their motto to every leftist and liberal we see.

“Armed security for me and mine,
Gun-free zones for thee and thine.”


10 posted on 12/28/2012 2:58:36 PM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: buffaloguy
” Arming teachers is out of the question; 95% of them are so liberal they would never go near a firearm for any reason.”
~~~~~ Not correct. There are many CCW license holders in our education establishment.

There might be "many" when you look at numbers. But, when you tally percentages, I'll wager dollars to donuts they are few ... very few.

11 posted on 12/28/2012 3:17:21 PM PST by Baynative
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