Arm the Teachers.
Armed teachers. Controversial to liberals.
Who are OK with having teen girls shot in the head because of their irrational fear of school teachers protecting them with guns.
What a crazy world we live in.
<><>Twice the FBI failed to follow up on alarming tips – when Cruz vowed on social media “to be a professional school shooter.”
<><> local police made 39 trips to his home because of violent and erratic behavior.
<><> Even his schoolmates knew he was nuts.
Yet the 19-year-old somehow (A) passed “background checks,” and, (B) legally purchased the rifle he used to kill 15 students, a teacher and a coach.
Bleeding heart Obama weighed in by monetizing the "hands-off minorities" program for which Broward collected $53 million federal dollars.
The braindead NAACP also weighed in to protect minorities....thus, aiding and abetting the massacre.
If they are too incompetent to carry, then they are too incompetent to teach.
Sorry Joy you are wrong. In the seventies I attended a high school that made national news for being shut down because of violent race riots. The following year it was reopened and the entire student body (1500) kids entered through one portal past armed security (remember this was the seventies, not long after Kent state). The sense of security was prevalent, and the regiment made the bad actors very docile while on campus. While I think having armed staff is a good idea, you must temper that by looking at the faculty in these schools. How are a bunch of progressives (mostly women ) going to handle being the vanguard of security. Controlling access is the key ( pro-action not re-action).
How quickly can a class of 30 kindergartners move to safety, and how far can they move in "seconds to act"? My .45 responds at 900 fps. For the longest straight line of sight in my local elementary school, that is 1/6 of a second. I'll go with the .45 every time.
I would add, cameras in every classroom and hallway. Classroom cameras would be with sound so parents could also see what is being taught to their kids.
The reason you’ll never get approval to arm some of the teachers is twofold:
First, you’re dealing with a true and deep phobia. Leftists FEAR the object, the gun, irrationally.
Second: leftists want TOTAL CONFISCATION of all privately-held weapons, and can not admit to them being an effective deterrent to a mad shooter. Secretly, they fear they can not ram the full socialist agenda down the country’s throat as long as any credible ultimate means of resistance still exists.
Close the schools. These schools are far to big to manage students safely. Home schools, computer schools, small charter and magnet schools would be much better. But since we really just want someone to babysit and socialize our kids, this is what we have.
***Leftists who refuse to allow willing and well-trained teachers to protect their students reveal to all that their compassion is nothing but hollow hypocrisy. ***
Much like they did in the 1960s and 70s when plane hijackings were happening. They wanted new laws to prevent it, but NO GUNS! NO ARMED PILOTS! NO ARMED GUARDS!
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Close the warehouses. Complete separation of education and government. Private pay or private charity.
While red flagging psychotic students hasn’t worked in the past it is due to complacency by both school and law enforcement authorities. The Parkland shooter could have been removed from the school, commited for mental health treatment or even placed on no admittance list. School shooters going back to Columbine have exhibited warning signs and even telegraphed their intentions on social media days if not weeks before acting and no one picked up on these signals or acted on them. Arming teachers is not unreasonable, but many of these school shooters could have been identified and dealt with before the tragedy occured
If I am not mistaken.If you are in school and still being raised, housed and financed by your parents, then the parents should be held responsible for their children and their actions. This means that every time there is a school shooting and they use their parents guns .They need to be prosecuted as accomplice’s .Parents should know what their kids are into at all times. Start throwing these parents in prison and you cut half the shootings out. Wake up people and raise your children! The TV can not do it for you.
Great article. The argument is effectively made that arming teachers is the best solution to prevent public school from remaining the soft targets they are today.
However, there will always be soft targets. Killers will generally go for them.
After 911 and the stupid TSA and invasive body scanning at airports I observed that the lines to reach security at my local airport would be a killer’s dream come true. They could kill far more people now that they are all lined up and disarmed. And someone did follow through with a similar line of thinking by attempting to kill people at baggage claim. He killed 5 and wounded 8 more.
What would stop a kid from getting on a school bus, going to the back and then picking off everyone?
We are not going to get rid of guns, and we are not going to get rid of all soft targets. Best strategy is like this article says though, be prepared.
The safest solution for public schools is to abolish them. Or, at least implement vouchers.
Hire an honorably discharged/retired vet with some arms experience - 2 or 3 at every school on patrol. I wouldn’t trust teachers - mainly because they are at work in a classroom and not on patrol.
The #1 thing that would reduce school shootings is to shut down the Deep State. The MK ULTRA program is probably responsible for at least 90% of these events.
Neither of those, as he has sitting ducks in a row for easy mass assassination. He just sits and waits until he is ready to open fire.