Jersey town adopts schoolhouse Glocks

Don’t mess with Marlboro Township. The leafy, well-heeled New Jersey suburb will station a permanent armed cop in each of its nine schools starting Jan. 2. * * * The mayor and other town officials had approved the initiative before the chief of the National Rifle Association ignited a firestorm on Friday by calling for armed guards for schools.

No it isn’t. It was made in the knowledge that educators, most likely most educators aren’t capable of dealing with a pistol, don’t want to learn and it is not their job.

Number one rule when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

What makes you think that ALL educators will be FORCED to carry firearms and aren't capable of dealing with it? What about those who VOLUNTEER and have the training? No, there's never been a former military type to take up teaching. No, there isn't a single teacher in the country with a CCW license (don't tell that to my CPL holding teacher wife.)

You're showing your ignorance with such broadly sweeping remarks. Will they cover the majority of teachers? No doubt. Does it apply to ALL teachers? No, by at least one teacher in my household. How many armed teachers does a single school need? Any number >zero.

I think calling for armed guards in all schools is an overreaction out of panic that will bite us in the end. After all, there are some 100,000 plus schools in America and these mass shootings amount to a tiny fraction of a percent.

I checked today and found that there are 13 different school districts in my county with multiple buildings, 6 Catholic schools, 3 Christian non Catholic schools, 3 charter schools, and 3 private schools. Not 1 has ever had a shooting of any kind.

Better to go state by state to change laws and allow school staff to be armed if they so choose. My thinking is that I would rather keep a potential threat guessing than putting one person out there that they can spot.

Another concern is the volunteers. It won’t take long for the left to figure out that a ringer firing a couple of shots into a school ceiling will be great PR for them. The ringer will get a slap on the wrist and the media will do weeks of show blaming the NRA for unleashing these crazies in our schools.

If you leave it up to the individual staff of schools you will end up with some schools unprotected but no one will know which are and aren’t.

In the case of the Middle School, there are five wings with 2,200 students. The High School has 1,500 students. I’m not saying that all schools should have armed guards, nor do I think they all need them, but having a presence is a positive thing. The retirees employed by our local district are former police officers with decades of experience, mostly in NYC. One thing that should certainly be banned are those “GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONE” signs. Whoever thought that was a good idea is clueless.

There are definitely plenty of inner city schools that need and currently have armed police onsite. There are cops onsite in Detroit schools and the gangbangers still shoot each other.

I agree that we need to ditch the gun free zones and stop advertizing them with the idiotic signs that might as well say “GAME RESERVE”.

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