Posted on 05/21/2018 5:08:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Santa Fe is the latest tragedy in a line of catastrophic school shootings.
Our children are sitting ducks in their schools these days.
Our children are everything to us. They are our future. Our happiness. Our light.
Why is it that we do not protect our most precious humans like we protect our banks, or police stations, or courthouses? Why are Americans so lackadaisical when it comes to school security measures?
The Problem:
I attended a City Council meeting and observed PTA mothers ask City Council to NOT place any armed police officers in their kids’ school. They said they did not want anyone armed on school campus. Parents, whose children go to that school, did not want anyone at that school who would be able to stop a shooter. Their reasoning, or lack thereof, still pains me months later.
What’s the point of school security? To protect children’s lives. Why be against the protection of your child’s life? This boggles my mind.
I believe that an overwhelming majority of parents value their children’s lives above all else. That’s how humans survive - we protect our children so that they can live on and have their own children, and so on. To protect our children when we are not in school with them, we need to be able to hire armed, trained security. But to this date, very few schools in the US have hired full-time armed security guards.
We hear smart advice from security experts about instituting Israel’s school security measures. But we don’t implement them. Why?
Israeli schools, by law, must post armed guards to check anyone who enters the school. These guards engage threats, and they work at the school every day. There is only one entrance into each school, and everyone who enters the school must pass through one entrance. Israel has diminished their school shootings. It looks like this works.
So why don’t we do this on a large scale? Democrats.
Instead of enacting immediate, effective measures to stop school shootings, Democrats are encouraging “policy change” for background checks on gun purchases. Democrats are successfully convincing Americans that the longest road to the least tailored solution is the optimal response. Democrats have convinced Americans that asking the government for policy change and waiting many years for policy change to take effect, asking for a law that does not directly shield children from any immediate harm, is somehow a valuable use of their adrenaline.
But a law does not physically manifest itself and magically appear between a shooter and his victim to prevent the shooter from killing his victim. A law does not instantaneously defend; it merely creates deterrence. In this case, the law they are seeking would take many years to have any effect, and the effect would be indirect. The result would certainly not provide any assistance to the children asking their government to protect them. Why are parents not demanding immediate protection, physical protection? Why are kids not demanding armed security to defend them? Because they are publicly encouraged by liberal media and liberal educators not to think via rational self-interest, but to support this groupthink Democrat cause of “gun control.”
While encouraging this far-stretched concept of “gun control,” Democrats are simultaneously discouraging immediate response measures. This appears to be because the immediate response to bad guys with guns requires good guys with guns. That’s where the Democrats retract. They have spent so much time and effort on vilifying the inanimate object that is a firearm, that admitting it can be used for good becomes a political nightmare for them. So they don’t do it.
Democrats need to stop capitalizing on school shootings to promote the idea of policy change on gun ownership. This approach to school shootings has done NOTHING to prevent school shootings, and in fact, cannot stop them. They need to prioritize children’s lives over their political games. This call for gun control after every shooting is an unethical waste of opportunity to call for the immediate protection of life.
That City Council meeting I discussed in the beginning, it was in a city that votes over 78% Democrat. Odds are that those PTA moms were Democrats or listened to liberal news. That’s the only reason I can think of that would cause an otherwise rational parent to have asked the City to keep armed security away from their school.
The Solution:
An armed, trained security guard can stop a shooter. But one is not enough. Each school needs to be evaluated based on its size and entrance points to determine how many guards are necessary to safeguard the school. These security guards must be posted at all times school is in session. School entry points must be limited
But don’t just listen to me. I’m not an expert. Listen to security experts. America has thousands of trained security experts. So do our allies, the Israelis, who instituted the most successful school security measures in the world.
I read, listened to and spoke with some of our American experts before writing this article. They studied and implemented security, and they studied shootings from around the world, including Breslan, Russia (334 killed), Ma’alot, Israel (25 killed), and Colorado, USA (15 killed). They all have advised the same thing: schools need dedicated, trained, armed security and limited entrance points guarded by armed security.
Well, our experts have described the exact system that Israel has implemented. It looks like the solution is unanimous. But Israel has been successful at implementation because their government is on-board with immediate response to assaults on children. They listened to the experts.
When you have a toothache, you go to the dentist. When charged with a crime, you go to a lawyer. When you are afraid of school shootings, you go to security experts. (When faced with any of these problems, you definitely don’t go to Congress and ask for a long, drawn-out process of policy intervention that may or may not take effect in the next decade, and which may or may not have any effect on your problem.)
Our experts go into significant detail as to how security can be improved for each school. They discuss everything from limiting entry points to forcing everyone to pass through metal detectors. Experts also recommend ALICE drills for the students. Security experts advise that security measures must be tailored to each school. They have spent the past two decades developing these ideas as our school shootings have been increasing. We need to listen to them.
Take Action:
You need to take action in your schools and communities.
Ask your child’s school about security. Demand armed, trained security permanently posted at each entrance. Attend town meetings and council meetings, and tell them that you want armed security.
One school resource officer is NOT enough. Ask for the school to hire an expert to evaluate your school’s needs to recommend a customized security plan, everything from reducing entrance points to adding metal detectors to implementing the adequate number of security guards for each entry point.
I practice what I preach. I’ve already notified our school of our security demands and our school tells me they are listening. I need to do more. I will continue to do more.
Don’t be shy and don’t worry about offending the school. Protect your children. Protect America’s children.
As a pundit said this weekend, we have strict security for airports, concerts, courthouses, etc. We should spend at least that much effort and money on protecting the country’s kids.
I know we long for the says when chewing gum was the worst “crime” committed in school. Sadly, God was taken out of schools and circumstances have changed. We need to change along with the times.
The Solution?
HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS.
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You mean like the one in Florida??
I never posted that “an armed, trained security guard can stop a shooter”. Perhaps that was another poster?
My post had to do with screening checkpoints before a person can enter a facility.
Isn’t the local school board responsible for the children’s safety? Can’t they be sued for loss?
I wonder why there has never been a mass shooting at a homeschool?
Ridiculous response that sounds good on the surface but every one cannot afford to stay at home and school their kids.
The other thing involved here is that the Dems (and the rest of the political and media classes) will keep on sending their kids to very expensive and exclusive private schools, but then are still able to receive money and support from the teachers’ unions and not do anything to upset that relationship.
Among the last things that the teachers’ unions would likely want would be to start really cracking down on the discipline problems (beginning with the petty incidents in the manner that Rudy Giuliani took when mayor of NYC), because increased suspensions and expulsions and even criminal prosecutions would cut student numbers down (that unions depend on greatly for money). It would also run counter to what many ones like Broward’s Robert Runcie want in place to deal with blacks and other racial minorities (Hispanics, etc) in keeping disciplinary actions towards such students to a bare minimum if any.
The Dems (like Andrew Cuomo and many others who lecture about the NRA) and their friends have the best of both worlds in this situation because habitual problem students and their potential threat are among the last things to be worried about at the expensive, exclusive private schools.
The problem if there is a problem is limited to high schools.
The remedy is well known and widely practiced.
Limit entry points. Provide armed security at the entry points.
The school killer in Parkland was home schooled too. Now what?
The school killer in Parkland was home schooled too. Now what?
How many victims constitutes a mass shooting ?
Maybe one of the family murder/suicides of the past involved a home school kid(s)but we dont know that do we ?
If it was, we’d certainly know it.
And the answer is four bodies.
Why is it “ridiculous” to suggest that people raise their own children? It’s foolish to me to hand over our kids to strangers for the majority of their childhood. If we can afford to homeschool our kids, anyone can. It’s a matter of priorities.
Many of the homeschool moms in our co-op work part time so they are able to be there for their kids and still contribute to the family’s income. It’s a defeatist attitude to simply say it’s unaffordable and give up your child to be trained by the state.
The real problem is the large schools. There is no way any teacher/ administrator can keep track of all the students. The students just become a number.
Large central schools were created to indoctrinate students to the guberments thinking. The repercussions were never thought about. Cookie cutter results do not always happen.
“Democrats need to stop capitalizing on school shootings to promote the idea of policy change on gun ownership.“
The issue is never the issue.
The Left hates you. The Left hates your kids.
They want you dead. They want your kids dead.
Plan accordingly.
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I recall back when terrorists began their attacks on the US and stated to my wife, “IF someone wanted to make a major impact on the US, start with the schools”. Horrible statement and thought but seems my thoughts were hacked and put into use.
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