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Improving Student Safety 20 Years After Columbine
Townhall.com ^ | April 20, 2019 | Lennie Jarrett

Posted on 04/20/2019 4:40:25 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/20/2019 4:40:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Put an end to “free public education”. It has been a disaster. A thing is what it is worth. If it’s free it’s worthless. “If it’s free YOU are the product.”


2 posted on 04/20/2019 4:47:34 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

If the schools want safety, they should have armed police officers inside the actual schools. And those officers should be willing to go into combat if needs be.


3 posted on 04/20/2019 4:47:37 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: Kaslin

>>and studies have been undertaken to find ways to identify potential shooters

Not in Florida

Thanks, Obama


4 posted on 04/20/2019 4:48:48 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Kaslin

For the sake of your kid’s soul....homeschool them or put them in a Christian school. There’s still no guarantee but the alternative is communist indoctrination.


5 posted on 04/20/2019 5:16:16 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: a fool in paradise

No one really examined how The Broward Promise led to Parkland. Public policy was a direct contributor. That kid wasn’t properly dealt with because everyone was trying to ignore bad behavior among minority kids, and he was classified as Hispanic.


6 posted on 04/20/2019 5:23:25 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: HighSierra5

I applaud any parents that can homeschool their children. I however would have never been able to.


7 posted on 04/20/2019 5:34:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

How about not putting kids on ssri mind altering drugs for which suicidal and homicidal thoughts are potential side effects


8 posted on 04/20/2019 5:45:07 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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I noticed—quite early—that the best way that liberals use to keep problems UNSOLVED is to eliminate the best SOLUTION option.
Then they just fuss about the problem doing NOTHING even a bit relevant to actually solving it.

“bullying”—A MISNOMER of the first order. It is invariably CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR by school-age kiddypoos. Crime should be treated as such. Try the little crooks—then chuck ‘em in the clink—but DO NOT KEEP THEM IN THE SCHOOL to pollute the rest.
NO teacher should have to endure the criminal or disruptive student—and YES, it should be the teacher’s call—OUT they go.

UNMARKED armed guards carrying concealed weapons—of course. Problem is—it WOULD WORK. (lIBS CAN’T HAVE that!)


9 posted on 04/20/2019 5:56:47 AM PDT by Flintlock ("FIRST the Saturday people, THEN the Sunday people"--gee whatever do they mean by that?)
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To: Kaslin

Grabbing guns is not the answer. Instead, find out why there are people who think it’s perfectly all right to shoot up groups of people.


10 posted on 04/20/2019 6:12:33 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Kaslin

Since, it is a celebration of Hitler’s birthday, there must be a way to link it to Trump.


11 posted on 04/20/2019 6:46:49 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20.)
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To: Kaslin
As a reminder to the gun grabbers, the 1994 Clinton Assault Weapons Ban was in full force when Columbine happened.

Didn't do much good, did it?

12 posted on 04/20/2019 6:58:31 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Only for the self gratification that he could point to and say he did something about it.


13 posted on 04/20/2019 7:03:03 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Kaslin

“Improving Student Safety 20 Years After Columbine..”

Nobody has done zilch...Bush’s “gun free school zones” is still on the books.


14 posted on 04/20/2019 7:23:55 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneow)
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To: a fool in paradise

Broward County Sheriff’s solution was to assign the most worthless, FIGMO, short-termer deputy in his department to Parkland School.


15 posted on 04/20/2019 7:27:40 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneow)
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To: Kaslin

This one deserves its own post:

http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/chicago-public-schools-sexual-abuse/index.html

L


16 posted on 04/20/2019 7:33:16 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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If it has to do anything with bullying than I agree.


17 posted on 04/20/2019 7:46:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“If it has to do anything with bullying than I agree.”

Worse, actually. Go read it.

L


18 posted on 04/20/2019 7:53:33 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Yo-Yo

As a reminder to the gun grabbers, the 1994 Clinton Assault Weapons Ban was in full force when Columbine happened.
Didn’t do much good, did it?


This gets to the heart of the matter. The criminal element intent on committing violence, will not obey any new laws that might be passed by liberals to make themselves feel good about “doing something”.


19 posted on 04/20/2019 8:54:35 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Trumpet 1

The author concludes:
“It’s been 20 years since the horrifying events at Columbine occurred. It’s long past time to ensure the safety of all students by creating and enhancing education choice programs.”

And these are the same folks who crow about armed presence being ineffective due to the failure of Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Neil Gardner (uniformed community resource officer) to stop Harris and Klebold.

https://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-there-be-more-armed-guards-in-schools/armed-law-enforcement-didnt-stop-columbine

We all know that Gardner is a hero (in contrast to Scot Peterson) who distracted the two long enough to limit the damage. Had the campus included enhanced security, the two would never have gained access and it would have ended on the lawn. If not for Gardner’s presence and engagement, Columbine would have literally been a massacre to eclipse what we now know as history.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/columbine.cd/Pages/DEPUTIES_TEXT.htm

Footnote: Ironic that the POS author didn’t cite the following noteworthy event and the lack of tragedy due to procedures, enhanced security and, most-certainly, armed ‘school resource officers’:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-17/columbine-high-school-lockdown-days-before-shooting-anniversary/11024004


20 posted on 04/20/2019 9:59:12 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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