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To: Cyclops08

I seem to recall the common sense argument that some adults in every school in America should be armed. It's that little notion of self defense. Terrorists can't rig explosives to blow up your children if they are dead on the floor, riddled with bullets.


6 posted on 09/04/2004 2:48:56 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

That plan - provided the armed adults have the training and will to IMMEDIATELY begin shooting (which is unlikely in our procedure-based, lawsuit happy modern socities)- would deal with the odd nutball or two. In this case, there were 20 to 30 terrorists armed with AK-47s, suicide belts, and bags of explosives. Essentially, it was a platoon assault. No reasonable school security force could or should be expected to deal with that.


34 posted on 09/04/2004 5:49:50 AM PDT by Captain Rhino ("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
some adults in every school

Big, centralized schools. Great idea for another time. Bad idea when enemies are looking for soft targets. It's a luxury to have such institutions.

70 posted on 09/04/2004 9:44:55 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
I seem to recall the common sense argument that some adults in every school in America should be armed. It's that little notion of self defense. Terrorists can't rig explosives to blow up your children if they are dead on the floor, riddled with bullets.

You know, that makes so much sense that you know in your heart of hearts that it cannot be implemented. There is not a sufficient amount of smelling salts in this country to revive the liberals who would faint dead away if they heard such a proposal.

74 posted on 09/04/2004 11:11:54 AM PDT by OldPossum
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