Posted on 05/21/2018 9:42:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Much like they did in the 1960s and 70s when plane hijackings were happening. They wanted new laws to prevent it, but NO GUNS! NO ARMED PILOTS! NO ARMED GUARDS!
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And what did we get? 9/11 and almost 3,000 dead Americans. Same thing is what’s been happening in schools.
Now THAT is funny.
The point is competence. I know several female Marines that are short and as vicious as a Mastiff. Were your wife to be trained and carry concealed, she probably would not have been a target. Would you agree that your wife was so unaware of her surroundings that she would be targeted? I certainly hope not. With proper training, I believe she would be as much a deterrent as one of my Marines.
And that is the ultimate goal of CC, anyone COULD be armed.
While red flagging psychotic students hasn’t worked in the past it is due to complacency by both school and law enforcement authorities. The Parkland shooter could have been removed from the school, commited for mental health treatment or even placed on no admittance list. School shooters going back to Columbine have exhibited warning signs and even telegraphed their intentions on social media days if not weeks before acting and no one picked up on these signals or acted on them. Arming teachers is not unreasonable, but many of these school shooters could have been identified and dealt with before the tragedy occured
Then again, I had a few who I believe would have been fearless protectors and very suitable for carrying firearms.
Best to accept volunteers only, with careful screening for temperament, and many hours of live fire training and scenario training.
If I am not mistaken.If you are in school and still being raised, housed and financed by your parents, then the parents should be held responsible for their children and their actions. This means that every time there is a school shooting and they use their parents guns .They need to be prosecuted as accomplice’s .Parents should know what their kids are into at all times. Start throwing these parents in prison and you cut half the shootings out. Wake up people and raise your children! The TV can not do it for you.
I get your point. Anyone can be properly trained.
I don’t think EVERY teacher needs to be weaponized. But if a teacher wants to be, and shows the initiative to be certified, then let them.
We have tried the idiot liberal approach since Columbine back in 1999. Yet school shootings continue.
Lets try a sane conservative approach and arm those teachers who can and will do something.
Watch and see if school shootings don’t cease.
Absolutely. But at the very least, teachers should receive hostile action training.
Great article. The argument is effectively made that arming teachers is the best solution to prevent public school from remaining the soft targets they are today.
However, there will always be soft targets. Killers will generally go for them.
After 911 and the stupid TSA and invasive body scanning at airports I observed that the lines to reach security at my local airport would be a killer’s dream come true. They could kill far more people now that they are all lined up and disarmed. And someone did follow through with a similar line of thinking by attempting to kill people at baggage claim. He killed 5 and wounded 8 more.
What would stop a kid from getting on a school bus, going to the back and then picking off everyone?
We are not going to get rid of guns, and we are not going to get rid of all soft targets. Best strategy is like this article says though, be prepared.
The safest solution for public schools is to abolish them. Or, at least implement vouchers.
Hire an honorably discharged/retired vet with some arms experience - 2 or 3 at every school on patrol. I wouldn’t trust teachers - mainly because they are at work in a classroom and not on patrol.
The #1 thing that would reduce school shootings is to shut down the Deep State. The MK ULTRA program is probably responsible for at least 90% of these events.
Absolutely. But at the very least, teachers should receive hostile action training.
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Dittoes on that. I work for a bank. In a highly secured office complex requiring ID badges and no one comes in without prior authorization.
I had to watch (required) a video on how to react and respond if there was a active shooter in my building. Then take a 5-10 question test afterward. Standard stuff. No big deal.
But I kept putting it off. I had work to do. No time for a silly video. But I finally took it on the last day possible. And that was Feb. 14. The day of the Parkland shooting.
That video along with the tragedy in Parkland is still with me. It’s all about situational awareness. At home, at work, at school, wherever.
Our kids at school do fire drills all the time. They - or the teachers at least - need to do active shooter drills.
Teachers have plenty of teacher workdays. They all need to spend one day (at least) each year in coordination and prepping for an active shooter. And be sure all staff members know who is and isn’t armed.
That one is debatable. It could be used against someone.
Here’s Real, they need one entrance in the morning with 2 metal detectors and 2 police K9 units standing by while facility monitors the metal detectors. Criminals fear dogs. Any student walking by them each morning would think about that.
If I know teachers, and I do being married to one for 38 years, I know that they will know - soon enough - who is and isn’t armed.
Teachers are a close-knit gossipy bunch.
OH you are SO on point! When i was a student nothing was thought or said about parents monitoring classes at any time. Parents were invited! When my children were in school I made it a point to assert my right and monitor classes from time to time. I had to insist/fight to do it, was not disruptive in classes but not welcome. When my older grandchildren were in school parents were not allowed so older daughter became a volunteer teacher's aide so she could monitor and be abreast of the teaching. The younger grandchildren are awash in a socialist system of leftist learning that must be counteracted at home. (Dad is active military, mom is primary breadwinner due to low enlisted salary so no home school feasible)
IMHO If teachers are so leftist they refuse to carry guns in school they shouldn't be teaching. My grandchildren are worth having their teachers armed. I think a properly trained individual can determine when/where to get kids safe and when to fire. Just my $.02
But then does that bring politics into the event and create workplace tension??
I haven’t seen many middle and lower school shooting except Sandy Hook. Let’s face it folks he was a mental issue long before that incident and I wonder is his Mom or Dad in jail for giving him access to your guns?
Actually if you check things out, you will see all these school shootings are either mental issues or bullying. All of them should have had someone intervene prior to the incidents, especially the parents.
agreed
No argument, just would not want a published list.
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