President Trump: Have Education Department Mandate Active Shooter Protocols

Townhall.com ^ | February 15, 2018 | Lawrence Myers

[Kaslin]

Great column

[RandallFlagg]

There is the FASTER program. They’ve been doing this for years.

http://fastersaveslives.org

[Alberta's Child]

I disagree.

Sending children to school in prisons is a characteristic of a totalitarian society.

Eliminating compulsory education laws would be a far more effective approach. You cannot have kids coming home from school talking about the deranged loser who everyone knows is just a powder keg waiting to explode -- with nobody able to do anything about it except wait for the explosion and hope he doesn't take too many victims with him.

[Candor7]

You want to protect our children at school?

Be prepared to defend them against evil.

Put aside your foolish anti-gun crap and qualify all teachers to be prepared to return fire.

Our schools are nothing but stock yards full of bleating sheep in shooting gallery gun free zones.

Train teachers to be securely armed so they can protect our children. And if they refuse.....fire them.

[iontheball]

Put aside your foolish anti-gun crap and qualify all teachers to be prepared to return fire.
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I keep thinking about the assistant football coach who shielded the children as he was mowed down. How much better would it have been for the man who bravely put his body in front of the fuselage to have been armed. You know he would have put the shooter down, if he had to die doing it.

[Kaslin]

If only the school had allowed him to carry a gun and use it.

[P-Marlowe]

There should be at least 1 armed police officer or armed deputized civilian for every 250 students at large schools.

If a school is as big as the one in Florida (3000 students) the police department should have an on-campus satellite office.

This high school had more people there than the population of most towns in Middle America. Apparently they had one armed guard who wasn’t near the shooting at the time.

They should have had at least 5 or 6.

[Dr. Pritchett]

I would like to see a comprehensive list of everything this school has done to enhance its security since Sandy Hook.

[bunkerhill7]

Q. What`s the difference between an armed teacher and a cop?

A. 18 minutes

[familyop]

"If the shooter gets in, the kids should take whatever they’ve got and attack. They can’t just sit there frozen or they will die...says Goldstein,...'then the child needs to run as fast as they can AWAY from the shooter.'...Crazy people are obviously not being dealt with properly – students at Parkland even predicted this would happen."

Yes. And criminals dealt with properly. The boy was a criminal and had been alleged to have committed several crimes.

First, our family laws and policies are wrong and need to be repealed. The young man was spoiled rotten. Someone had been defending his abuses against others.

The classrooms need doors between them all--not only doors into classrooms from hallways. Distance is needed between railed/cabled parking lots and school buildings with no vehicle access near doors. Egress windows--large enough for students to get outside--should be installed, as is required by the International Building Code for houses (fire code). The students need unhindered mobility.

The students need training to disarm attackers. Desks can be used as weapons.

And no, we don't need whacked out commie public school teachers on dope carrying weapons. They're an incompetent menace. Hire and train former military servicemen from combat-intensive or security-intensive specialties (and background checks, examples being Army or Marine infantry, Navy SEALs, combat engineers--not construction but combat type, military police,...) as armed security guards instead.

[familyop]

"Train teachers to be securely armed so they can protect our children. And if they refuse.....fire them."

I've gone to classes with them and worked with them. Most of them are on the far left and are as competent to carry weapons as Cruz was. Most of them will claim to be conservative when speaking to an outsider. Nearly none of them would refuse to carry. They would talk with each other in private about killing conservative parents.

[Keyhopper]

In this country we have thousands upon thousands of men and women that would gladly answer the to call to arms if only allowed to. They have served this country honorably and would again do so now. Allow our retired police and military to patrol these schools, ARMED!

[Vendome]

That...

[siberianheat]

I keep thinking about the assistant football coach who shielded the children as he was mowed down. How much better would it have been for the man who bravely put his body in front of the fuselage to have been armed. You know he would have put the shooter down, if he had to die doing it.

This is what normal, sane, empathetic people feel and think when they hear about the heroics. Why did he have to use his body as a shield? Why wasn't he armed. Hell, even a taser might have bought him some time. ANYTHING! (note, I'd prefer a gun). I thought this same thing back in 2012 when that guy shot up the movie theatre and stories came out how some guys used their bodies to protect their lady friends. To me, that is reason enough to let people carry concealed in those movie theatres, but my liberal friends came to the opposite conclusion. They think the guys would have been saved if the shooter wasn't allowed to have his gun. Logic is never a factor with them. I'm sure we're going to hear stories of how things would have been different if the teachers had those bulletproof chalkboards or whatever that they can use like Captain America. Somehow that makes more sense to them than a big, bad, gun. Half of America just doesn't live in reality.

What I don't understand is why sheepdog men and women aren't stepping up and demanding they be allowed to protect their kids on these gun-free campuses. After Sandy Hook I went to a local school meeting where they discussed security. I heard snide chuckles from law enforcement when it was suggested teachers have the option to carry firearms. They also dumped on the idea of having armed volunteers. I suggested having a room where volunteers who work from home could spend some time in a school media room/library to do their work. Every time they came back with the basic tenant that we would only make things worse because we were dumb rubes with guns. This is why nothing ever changes.

[Bodega]

Yes, the time is NOW. It is important to empower kids to self protect. And guess what, it will work at home, too.

[Bodega]

Yes, you are correct. Almost every child I know including the girls are capable of being protectors.

IIf the shooter gets in, the kids should take whatever they’ve got and attack. They can’t just sit there frozen or they will die...says Goldstein,...’then the child needs to run as fast as they can AWAY from the shooter.’...Crazy people are obviously not being dealt with properly – students at Parkland even predicted this would happen.” know many “children” perfectly capable of doing this”.

[i_robot73]

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There should be at least 1 armed police officer or armed deputized civilian for every 250 students at large schools.
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Why does there NEED to be any such thing? Why not acknowledge EVERY Citizens inalienable Right (2nd)?? Then, any number of STAFF can arm, as they so choose.

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If a school is as big as the one in Florida (3000 students) the police department should have an on-campus satellite office.
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Christ, what’s next? Every stadium? Every concert hall? Every?

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This high school had more people there than the population of most towns in Middle America. Apparently they had one armed guard who wasn’t near the shooting at the time.
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And, last I heard\remember, the 2hr. response time? What was said guard DOING in the interim?

Sorry, no. The ‘solutions’ that exist when the Constitution is adhered, followed and enforced are *amazing*.

[i_robot73]

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Sending children to school in prisons is a characteristic of a totalitarian society.

Eliminating compulsory education laws would be a far more effective approach.
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BINGO.

As if any PRIVATE institution would have put up w/ violations of policy, acting out, disruption of education....Not when it could/would effect their BOTTOM LINE (IE: parent/guardian pulling their brood out and the $$ stops flowing)

Terminate the DoEd, terminate any/all property taxes & make parent(s)\guardian(s) responsible for the education of their children as they would do if they went to college.

[lepton]

The NEA has been telling us for decades that none of their membership is mentally stable enough that be trusted with a firearm. If that is so, then the shooters are a lesser problem.

Though even if it is true, there’s the kitchen and janitorial staff.

[lepton]

5-6 is a good minimum. That’d protect against preemptive strikes, sick days, and the argument that one of them might lose it.