Posted on 02/01/2013 6:52:19 AM PST by FR_addict
"The Newtown Board of Education will be asking the town to make room for more armed police officers in its budget.
In a meeting Thursday, the board voted to request the town to add full time uniformed school resource officers to its four elementary school s for the next fiscal year was approved this evening. The officers would be Newtown police officers.
“Our parents are demanding of us that things are made safe and secure and certain measures areput in place,” said Chairwoman Debbie Leidlein. “So we’re being very thoughtful.”
Multiple police officers have been stationed at all Newtown schools since the December 14th shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary killed twenty children and 6 teachers. Those officers will remain at the school through the remainder of the school year. For the next fiscal year, resource officers were budgeted only to be at Middle and High Schools. ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...
You’re going to call down the wrath of the frightened bunnies who believe there’s a deranged gunman hiding in the bushes of every school in America.
Statistically the number of school shootings (aside from inner city gang violence) is so low that we can never really effectively bring the number down.
Personally I think the best thing you can do is eliminate the gun free zones and allow staff to carry. These shooters don’t appear to be risk takers. They plot and intend to die. Make them gamble and you may just deter some of them.
Watch Obama doe something like install armed TSA agents in the schools....ha!
“...this won’t make tonight’s Nightly News..”
Nah, of course not. No little kids’ bodies to generate moral outrage over.
This is something that will actually WORK, proving OUR side to be right (as we knew anyway).
Can’t have THAT, now, can we?
Home invasion suspect arrested after woman opens fire
Suspect arrested at hospital
Author: Camille Williams, Reporter, cwilliams@kprc.com
There was a 100 million dollar lawsuit request made at Sandy Hook and then withdrawn.
I suspect they are going to have to withstand some lawsuits or settle.
It appears there were issues about locks on some classroom doors and keys.
One of the teachers is a stepdaughter of a reporter for a local paper. Lauren Rousseau
Reports are that as a substitute She didn’t have the key to lock her door.
Had she had the key, she might be alive as well as the children.
“”We became aware that not all substitutes had keys,” Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson said Wednesday.”
The father of the teacher said she did not have a key
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/12/18/quebec-lauren-rousseau-conn.html
If true, He has grounds for a lawsuit and I think they will settle.
It happened yesterday in Atlanta in a school with an armed guard. Granted only one student was shot, but unfortunately, in these situations, there’s going to be that first person to get shot before anything happens.
Agreed. Just like my niece & nephews in Newtown.
Never bring a rubber bullet (that may not faze a lunatic) to a lead bullet fight.
Never bring a taser (that can be defeated with a heavy coat) to a lead bullet fight.
Always bring a lot of big, fast lead to a lead fight.
I agree. Take down all gun free zone signs and let the staff do as they wish.
What good would keys do?
I don't know the details at the school, but I think large glass windows in doors are pretty standard in schools, as well as windows in classroom walls in some. Principals like to walk the halls and see what is going on in the rooms. (These days it is also due to fears that teachers might more easily molest kids if they can't be seen from the hall.)
With a glass windowed door, all the perp has to do is break the window, turn the inside knob, and walk in.
I don't think keyed deadbolts in a classroom would go over well with the fire marshall.
Maybe an emergency device that could be secured would be feasible (similar to the old 2x4 in brackets setup but harder to defeat. Also, school doors must open outward). Again, there are very strict fire laws about school doors due to some horrible tragedies years ago.
Can’t open the door by turning the knob after it has been locked by key.
But you make a point. If there is no where to hide and there is not bullet proof glass you could just stick your gun through a shot out door window and kill them.
For that matter, you could be outside, pop up, and kill them all through an outside window.
But the reason a lawsuit will prevail if allowed to continue is because they did not follow adequate security procedures by giving the teacher a key so that she could lock the door . That was the Standard Operating Procedure for a lock down and they didn’t give her what she needed to lock it down.
How are those freepers who are convinced this was a hoax with crisis actors going to handle this news?
Oh, never mind, duh. The school board that called for this is also filled with actors, or they have had their families threatended by the government, if they do not do this to continue muddying the water, as calling for more guns is unexpected in liberal CT.
“Can’t open the door by turning the knob after it has been locked by key.”
This may not be true. That would be a fire marshall issue. How do the kids get out if there is a fire and the door was locked from outside.
And why does the door have to be locked from the outside and not inside?? Not quite understanding that yet.
We defend our country ————with guns
We defend our president-———with guns
We defend our banks-—————with guns
We defend our courts—————with guns
We defend etc., etc —————with guns
We defend our children——with a sign that says
“THIS IS A GUN FREE ZONE”
and then call someone with a gun when there is an emergency.
You preach to the choir. I just foretell what they will be doing.
well that’s odd, I thought the democrats gun bans were going to make everybody safer. While that nasty evil NRA guy who called for more security in schools was all wrong.
huh
Looks like the media was full of &%#$ again.
“What they need is to find out which teachers are ex-military or ex-police and/or which teachers or administrators are safety trained CCW carriers”
Over in Newtown (about 10 miles from me), I doubt you’d find very many individuals who fit the above qualifications. Probably none at all in the elementary schools.
Pretty much the same wherever you look, at least in the northeast...
The CCW issue is a different one. Considering how many state level “People's Republics” we have in this country, most of the Northeast and West Coast school folks don't have a chance to arm themselves.
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