Posted on 02/22/2018 9:23:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Here in Center my kids played in a HS stadium that was nicer than the stadium the college I went to had.
Here in Center my kids played in a HS stadium that was nicer than the stadium the college I went to had.
CenTex not Center.
Just as an aside. Has anyone wondered why this stuff doesn’t happen on Friday nights every fall? I would think that would be prime time for these bad kids.
Well, I would suggest that every external gathering requires a police presence. Plus, there is always a gun or two in the crowd.
They don’t go there because people would shoot back.
Most schools already have security, like the assistant football coach. I wonder what it would cost to arm them?
A school system near me doesn’t have bus service to take kids to the high school, but you bet they have the latest and greatest when it comes to sports equipment, weight rooms, etc. Amazing.
I think any parent understands your sentiment!
Don’t forget the unarmed security and police already in many schools.
That’s ridiculous. All that’s necessary is to allow properly qualified teachers who have CCW permits to carry on school premises. Jewelry stores have armed security in most cases because the owners and employees carry. Same thing for gun ranges. I’ve been to many and there are no regular armed guards. Rather, the employees and owners just carry and security takes of itself. Same thing would happen with schools.
Just exactly what kind of “vetting” are you looking for?
Past performance. Experience. Willingness to remain proficient, test scores on practicles. Physical performance.
Security at a school is a lot more than waltzing around strapped up while attending to your class.
There’s constant vigilance, there’s eyes and ears attuned to the physical security of the premises. You can’t do that unless they have been specifically trained to do that and remain able to do that as a primary function within that school. If it’s not a primary function it’s just going to be another add-on job, a collateral duty, and that’s when it fails to be effective.
But Liberals will have a $hit fit” over that idea. (”They are not trained”)
The truth is that in their “heart of hearts,” Liberals love these school shootings, because it gives them yet another “bite at their real desire, a total gun ban!”
Dead children are just “broken eggs” in their “gun ban omelet!”
If we now need armed security guards at our schools, then we’re done as a first-world nation.
Stupid story. Relevant story is of Sheriff who offered 50 seats on gun safety to teachers and 250 applied.
I carry concealed all the time, and there is a reason that I do not want the casual observer or contact to know of that fact. I am only interested in defending against someone attacking me, especially to gain possession of my protective device.
Do you want the burden of having to figure out where you can go with it and not be arrested because of personal, business, or governmental restrictions.
Apparently you do not have to face this every day. I was just recently threatened with a fine of $1,500 for just transporting my gun, locked in my car, and out of plain sight, whilst volunteering for charitable activity on a federal site. Now, I can't even protect myself while driving to and from that avocation.
You need to get your thinking cap on. Consider the unintended consequences of your naivete.
“Past performance. Experience. Willingness to remain proficient, test scores on practicles. Physical performance.”
We have a proxy for past performance. As I already said and you ignored, CCW-holders are the most law-abiding cross-section of the population you can find, more so than clergy or LEOs, and far less likely to shoot innocent bystanders than LEOs.
You sound like a retired cop who wants to pad his pension with some more taxpayer loot and you don’t want any scabs lousing up your gravy train.
I really don’t mind so much if my child is 18 and undereducated. I am not joking. But I do want him actually ALIVE at 18. His future looks a lot better that way.
There was a special about the Indiana high school called the most safe school in the country. Tim Conway had the audio on his show last night. It cost $400,000 and doesn’t involve armed guards. It’s foolproof security, very elaborate yet elegant. One big high school, $400k. If there are 4000 students, each parent would be responsible for only $100 and some could pay more.
I want my kid in a place as safe as an airport, as safe as the academy awards, as safe as a concert, at least.
I would go with 13 billion divided by 55 million. So it is about 236 bucks per student per year. So the question that has to be asked of liberals is, is the protection of a student worth 236 dollars?
That would fry a liberals brain.
Actually I do, here in NYS the restrictions are significant. there's a book related to where you can't carry, like many campgrounds for instance where you might be likely to have a bear run in - insane. In schools, I'd be for having fingerprint safes in every classroom - alarm goes off, those allowed would retrieve their firearm. I'd have big safes, as I'd want some scoped sniper rifles to be part of the mix.
Ironically “ children of color” are probably safer in school guarded by cops on site than the white liberal upper middle class suburbanites who make their schools “ gun free zones”
Use refundable tax credits to give parents the financial ability to send their daughters and sons to private schools with great security.
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