Posted on 11/18/2004 3:52:21 PM PST by MaximusRules
It's about 8:42 in the morning, and you have just sat down at your desk with a cup of hot coffee. As the sheriff of this small rural community, you are reviewing the overnight reports from your graveyard shift deputies. It was, as usual, a relatively uneventful night.
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
I smell something......
Start a Boy Scout Troop?
/sarcasm
We could arm teachers, but they'd complain that they're not paid to be law-enforcement officers. The same folks who were against arming airline pilots would reappear to oppose arming teachers. Michael Moore would have his next screenplay for a sequel to 'Bowling for Columbine' cooling off in his HP Deskjet's output tray before the news media even got cameras on the scene.
The 1994 Crime Bill's "3000' Gun-Free Zones Around Our Nation's Schools ' policy would be another reminder of the pre-9/11 mindset.
Nope, there's no plan to produce a countermeasure to this scenario.
Outlaw hooded men or try homeschooling.
There are no plans other than to try to negotiate with the terrorists, pre-911 style and to pick up the body parts after it is done.
Yeah and wait until they get into the schools and find survey information like this.
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIT/forms/fs57.pdf
Sorry for bringing this up but the school has no need for this info and yet parents fill it out and I'm concerned about it.
Kerry has the plans.
Wrong. It's called by various names, including "Rapid Response to Active Shooters," but LE has been training and planning with it nationwide since Columbine.
It's working. One reason we've had less workplace violence in the news is because the cops are responding and dispatching the bad guys to the land of 72 virgins before they can do too much harm. If a guy walks into an office building and kills his boss before the cops wack him, it's not national news.
Gee I dunno. It seems the schools are too busy expelling students for trying on earrings and other such "zero tolerance" nonsense to worry about real terrorists with real weapons invading a school:
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=2579621
Don't laugh. The scenario in the story is a good candidate for a terrorist attack. It would afford all the drama and high public exposure that they could want.
Now let's see... where are those 26 or so suspected al Qaeda members that supposedly entered the USA via Mexico?
Our plan is to not get attacked in the first place, I hope.
One plan for all schools....Nuke Mecca.
Sorry to be picky, but that wasn't the scenario.
If a guy walks into an office building and kills his boss before the cops wack him, it's not national news.
Are you in the news business?
Yes, The best defense is a good offense. Take the fight to the enemy.
I just used that scenario because I know several office rampages have been stopped by an active response from the cops. The mechanics are all still the same. Actively engage the terrorists. Their planning, whether it's the office guy, or Issac Islam, counts on the Columbine siege mentality... anything else throws them off.
Are you in the news business?
No, I'm a good American, not a leftist traitor.
No, I'm a good American, not a leftist traitor.
Well I hate to tell you this, but stand-offs ARE national news. Perhaps not the network mini docu-dramas like Abu Grahib, or Mattew Shepard (depending on what else is in the news cycle), but of national interest none the less. Can you site any situations where the response you describe made local, but not national?
Be that as it may, your "lone gunman" answer doesn't really address the "Beslan-like" question... Are you really claiming the current response doctrines call for assaulting a school full of children wired to jellied gasoline covered by a dozen or more terrorists?
I understand and agree with your reasoning: at least for the "lone gunman." I just don't think pre-empting a planned, multi-threat, multi-layered, actively defended, assault like Beslan is credible. As such, it's not really a credible response.
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