Posted on 12/16/2011 10:51:22 AM PST by marktwain
To the editor,
When will the educrats and activist judges learn that THEY, not guns, put young folk in harm’s way?
When “gun free school zones” were created, huge targets were painted on every child and young adult that goes to public school or attends our universities. In some places, since Gun Free School Zones Act took effect persons intent on mayhem have murdered innocent students and teachers. Because of the law, children died, with nobody prepared and able to defend them.
The proof is written in blood; since the law took effect 1/29/1991, and reported through 2010, here in the United States there have been 43 school shooting sites with 312 direct victims resulting in 128 deaths. Universities, colleges and schools with the help of judges intent on legislating from the bench, in defiance of state law, are upholding unlawful bans on firearms that might have saved lives. Where there is a chance of someone being armed and capable to defend themselves and others, these events do not happen.
Look to Israel, and how they responded to school shootings; teachers were armed (yes, with GUNS) and charged with the safety of the children in their care. They also train the upper classmen in the use of firearms so that they, too, could protect their fellow students. That successfully prevented the kind of bloodshed that America has dealt with. This is how America should have handled school shootings.
People lawfully carrying guns to school will not place anybody in danger. It will make our campuses safer places. It will remove the target that the educrats and activist judges want to keep painted on our most precious resource, our children.
Antonet C Piper
Ashland
“Look to Israel, and how they responded to school shootings; teachers were armed (yes, with GUNS) and charged with the safety of the children in their care. They also train the upper classmen in the use of firearms so that they, too, could protect their fellow students. That successfully prevented the kind of bloodshed that America has dealt with. This is how America should have handled school shootings.”
When I am at work, it is the only time that I don’t have any guns around. And that really bothers me. I don’t like the thought that my only weapon in case anything goes bad is a broken yardstick.
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