An elementary school in Israel."Within the realm of constitutional options, the most practical remedy I can think of would be to require that a certain number of teachers or administrators in each school be trained in the use of firearms and armed at all times."
An elementary school in Israel.While I agree that the news coverage of these horrors doesn’t really help to prevent other twisted people from being inspired to copycat...
It’s still a reactive fix.
I want a more proactive fix:
Arm more good guys.
I think what the liberals overlook is *why* people want to own guns and *why* so many are ardent supporters of the 2nd amendment.
They don’t trust government. Maybe that’s a start. Why don’t people trust government.
My first instinct is to intitiate the most thorough investigation of psychotropic drugs in history. The suicide rates in the military and every one of these insane shootings have these drugs in some way connected to them.
They suppress the brain’s natural inhibitions, shut off the conscience, and allow those taking them to act out their anger without any feeling of guilt or remorse. They depress normal emotions and magnify anger with no protection as a buffer to stop them from letting their rage explode into absolute madness. They treat normal emotions as abnormal, medicate them, and never ever get to the reasons for those feelings. Rather they suppress them and treat the symptoms instead of the problems which only causes worse problems.
There are intermediate bouts of rage and finally an overload.
Psychiatry and psychology are guilty of malfeasance and should never be in charge of deciding what constitutes ‘mental illness’.
My prayer is that some school administrators and school parents have seen the threat and taken the actions which will protect the students not based on what has already taken place but actions which were put in place many years ago with armed, numerous armed, teachers and parents or grandparent going in and out on a rotating basis, all under the radar. If not, and the trend of attacking schools continues, there is no chance without having armed people in place to give the innocent a chance. A prayer common sense measures are in place in a whole host of local and there are those at the ready if the necessity should arise.
Actually what we need is immediate and drastic... politician control. Thorough background checks, a five day waiting period before they can spout off their stupid mouths, and a three comment magazine limit.
In Israel, the parents must volunteer every so often and takes turns guarding their child’s school - armed with UZI’s and do perimeter patrols so the free loving Palestinians don’t commit acts of terror on what otherwise would be a “soft” target.
I think we have enough former-retired military personnel - retired police officers - and other “qualified” parents in each school district that can cover this.
You have a concealed carry permit - legally own your handgun - get some police firearms training from one of the local LE instructors for liability - and post them in the school. The only purpose of these people: Stop an Active Shooter.
May never happen in your school - but once it is hardened by experieced personnel - they will go somewhere else.
2nd Requirement: (and most of you won’t like this) Police Departments are going to have to profile and come up with a list of wacko’s that may pose a threat - basic human intelligence requirement - may not ID the actual threat - but the list may serve as a early warning indicator.
Just saying from an experience Anti-Terrorism Officer with 4 tours in Iraq and qualified MP Captain - who also served with Blackwater and still in the Intelligence community fighting global terrorists...
Recall that some people regard the shooter Nidal Hasan as insane rather than a terrorist. I don't doubt Hasan is insane, as you have to be mentally disturbed to be a muslim; but, that does not refute his terrorist activities & sympathies.
Such a restriction on the media would require they evaluate every murder to determine if it might be the acts of a criminal, a terrorist, or an insane person. The media is not qualified to make such a determination. Their job, as poorly as they do it now, would be immeasurably harder & prone to frequent error.
Fleeing shooters would benefit from not having their picture immediately on the news, aiding their getaway.
Would the survivors, family, & others involved be silenced? Not likely or enforceable. The Net would reveal all the info the media is prohibited from reporting before restrictive authorities could react.
This idea is as unworkable as it is unconstitutional. And what parent would choose to remain ignorant when such an atrocity has occurred nearby?
Arm the school staff and/or provide armed, capable security guards. This is the only way lives may be saved.
BUT THE GUARDS ARE NOT ARMED !!!!
I have a friend who was a teacher in Alaska. The polar bears became a problem. Think about it. Your kids are waiting at the bus stop for the school bus when along comes the hungry polar bear. The parents and teachers were required to take turns riding shotgun on the school bus to protect the kids. And you had to have a rifle capable of stopping a polar bear. I don’t know if that’s the best solution, but it is a solution.
