Posted on 12/21/2012 2:57:02 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray said his city should “double down” on gun laws that are among the most stringent in the country, as leaders in the nation’s capital and other cities view the sudden debate over guns as a pressing issue that afflicts youth both inside and outside of school walls. ....
In the District, Mr. Gray pointed to an incident at the Family Research Council in August, when a gunman entered the conservative think tank’s downtown offices. A security guard, Leo Johnson, was hailed as a hero for wrestling the man to the ground before he could inflict any violence inside the building. Using the incident as evidence, he said leaders need to “do whatever we can to get guns off the street.”
Mr. Gray dismissed talk of armed guards in schools as akin to the “O.K. Corral” and expressed concerns that children could take possession of guns that are introduced into a school setting. Ms. Henderson and D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier also waved off such talk, saying the community would not stand for it and many safeguards are in place already, including an active-shooter program that was implemented after the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado in 1999.
“I think (the training) lends a lot of comfort to the educators because there is some sense of what can happen, what should happen, and how to react if something does happen,” Chief Lanier said.
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What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
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Just a fact.
Don't expect a liberal to accept evidence unless it supports what they have been conditioned to accept as reality.
What? Children could take possession of guns introduced to a school environment? Only a liberal idiot would conceive of this, And as a matter of fact I got this very argument from a liberal idiot, as a reason to keep guns out of teachers hands! The morons seem to expect that arming people in schools means putting the guns in a drawer or locker. I told the liberal friend of mine that would be asinine, the only way to defend yourself with a gun is to have it at hand in a holster not locked away.
So the District of Columbia becomes one huge “Gun Free Zone”?
Tell the denizens of Anacostia that.
Mr. Gray needs to meet up with Duddits.
“Gun prosecutions under Obama down more than 45 percent”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/gun-prosecutions-under-obama-down-more-than-45-percent/article/2516175#.UNCXuHfZ-pc
Exclude the Distrcit of Corruption,Chicago,L.A., Philly, E.St.louis & Baltimore and we’d probably have the gun murder rate of Switzerland.
Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
*** and expressed concerns that children could take possession of guns that are introduced into a school setting.***
Better to have a school full of dead kids than allow a teacher to be armed-with a gun!
Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
Relax, eh, TurboZamboni? The self-styled "progressives" are working on that, too, by doing everything imaginable to worsen the national economy, increase unemployment, and drive up the cost of motor vehicles with new regulations. They're big believers in public transportation for the commoners.
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