I’m against it.
We should arm principles and existing school officials. We don’t need new government employees.
Yeah, BRING THE TSA/CPA UNIONS into our school... another way of turning common sense into a rape the kiddies boondoggle, keeping pesky parents out... I can see that happening...
It’s why they were for it and now against it etc...
Let the Carnival continue and make the kiddies participate in it, Sesame street style with the gays and convicts having more say than “parents with emotional clinging chivalrous narcissistic conflicts of interests”... (sarc off)
I can see the BS happening indeed...
lets examine this a bit more closely.
For as long as I been on Free Republic I have heard the mantra that "ALL" public school employees are money grubbing, gun hating liberal, union thugs, too stupid to hold real jobs, that engage in serial child abuse. (Let me know if I left any thing off)
There have been threads recently comparing public schools to prisons and now it is suddenly okay to arm these miscreant dregs of society to save the lives of children!
In early March of 1999, right after Columbine several other teachers and myself were approached about being armed at our school during the day. Each of us had CCW permits, either military and /or security training. We met with the building principal, Asst. Superintendent and Superintendent.
The very first question we asked was "What about liability, and how will we be covered?"
Now keep this in mind: I AM NOT OPPOSED TO THIS IDEA, I JUST THINK SOME QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED FIRST.
1) Liability insurance: Will this be provided by the district, union (if there is one), employee?
2) Training: Who will provide it? Who will pay for it (See #1)? Who will be required to attend? What constitutes successful completion of training? How often will they be required to re certify and who will pay for the re certification (see#1)? What about the building official that just can't bear the idea of carrying a weapon, much less in school? Should that person be fired, demoted, replaced, transferred, lose their credentials?
3) Weapons: What will they carry? Who decides what they will carry? Will they carry concealed or open? Will the have the option of long arms? What capacity magazine? Who pays for the weapon and ammunition (see #1)? Where will the weapons be stored? How will they be stored? Who will have access to them?
These are jsut a few question right off the top of my head.
Remember: I AM NOT OPPOSED TO THIS IDEA, I JUST THINK SOME QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED FIRST.
Metmom you might want to put this on your ARTH ping list.
Don’t worry comrade. This is all for the best.
The kids need to learn to have the government enforced police presence in their lives watching over them, all for their own good, of course.
What better way to prepare minds to accept a police state than to start in schools with impressionable young minds and fearful parents.
It’s all for the children, you see........
In another generation, nobody will know what freedom is.