Yeah, sure...can't wait to see all those suburban and urban school systems in blue states happily greeting elementary school teachers who pack heat.
As to citing a homeschooled kid being murdered in their home, no I cannot give you a statistic or cite a specific case.
I'm not surprised.
Fortynine states have concealed carry. Last time I checked, school shootings were happening in them and I can't recall the last one that happened in my home state of Illinois, the only remaining state where carrying concealed is against the law. Unless you can force school systems to do with their employees what it took us decades to get state governments to do with voting citizens and do so with way, way fewer restrictions than "concealed cary" states like New York, your point makes no sense.
And yeah, it's an outrage that conservatives are criticizing public schools. How dare we.
re: “Unless you can force school systems to do with their employees what it took us decades to get state governments to do with voting citizens and do so with way, way fewer restrictions than “concealed cary” states like New York, your point makes no sense.”
But, that is exactly the point!! Concealed carry is not legal EVERYWHERE within a state! That’s the problem. That’s why all public places are targets because concealed carry isn’t permitted there.
It’s not just a public school issue, it’s a public place issue. Just because a state allows concealed carry, it usually still restricts it to only certain places. If all schools, public and private, including universities allowed concealed carry it would definitely help stop the nut cases from doing this kind of crap.
You are correct that it will probably never happen - just as democrats will do everything BUT cut spending - they will blame everything but spending on entitlements. But, even though that is true, do we not still tell the truth and proclaim that cutting entitlement spending and taxes are the only way to get a handle on the mine shaft of a fiscal hole we are in??
Getting rid of public schools will probably never happen either, yet you have no problem with constantly calling for its demise - so, why can’t I point out that having concealed carry on public school campuses would help put a stop to these murdering bast##ds in public places?
So, even though allowing concealed carry in public schools is greatly resisted by the dems, should we not still point out the obvious answer to protecting, not just public schools, but all public areas where large numbers of people congregate?
By the way, where did I say that conservatives should not criticize public schools?? I never said nor implied such a thing.
I only said that some of the homeschoolers on this site are rabid about turning each and every negative story on public - or private - schools into a soapbox for homeschooling. Homeschooling is great, but some of you guys are exactly like the gun-grabbers in using your agenda to interpret every tragedy as a case for your pet issue.