Posted on 05/16/2019 11:18:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well, the debate is over. The voting is done. And the bill has been signed into law. Florida will now permit armed teachers in the classroom. It’s a win for gun rights advocates. Florida is still reeling from the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland from last year, where shooter Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people. It’s the reality we live in, folks. Since we’re not going to repeal the Second Amendment or enact a policy of confiscation, everything must be on the table to keep schools safe. Also, we cannot forget that America is not a shooting gallery. Schools have never been safer. With proper training, a policy of arming teachers isn’t an extreme policy. Having armed guards staffed by former military veterans or the local police are also a fine alternative.
The fact of the matter is that Parkland was avoidable. The list of the times local, state, and federal authorities failed to act on Cruz, who was deeply disturbed, is lengthy and maddening. If the government had done its job, there is no doubt he would not have been able to purchase the AR-15 rifle he used to commit the shooting.
Well, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the legislation into law. On October 1, armed teachers goes into effect, with participation based on approval by the various school boards (via Tampa Bay Times):
[T]he 54-page Senate Bill 7030 sparked days of debate and was one of the most contentious bills of the 2019 legislative session, DeSantis drew as little attention as possible in making it law, holding no news conference or ceremony. Instead, his office blasted a late afternoon, two-paragraph email stating that he signed it at some point Wednesday, the same day that he had received it from the Legislature.
The law goes into effect Oct. 1.
For teachers and other staff to be armed, school districts must opt-in to the so-called “Guardian program,” which allows teachers and other staff to volunteer to carry a gun on campus after getting screened and trained by a sheriff’s office. That program was passed by state lawmakers last year in response to the Feb. 14 Parkland massacre, but it didn’t allow teachers who “exclusively perform classroom duties” to carry guns, partly on the urging of former Gov. Rick Scott.
There has to be more on mental health, but this is a good start.
They will find another way to attack.
How is that relevant when we're trying to defend against THIS kind of mass school shooting attack?
The crazy, like the poor, will always be with us.
It is a tenet of the Liberal Religion that it is much more righteous that many students be killed than that a teacher be armed or, even worse, shoot back. I am not being satirical. Liberals believe that it is not immoral for a killer to mow down a lot of people because the killer has mental health issues and is thus not responsible for his actions. It is highly immoral for a person to defend himself or others with violence because that person is acting rationally and is obviously not crazy and is therefore responsible for taking a human life. I have had this argument with liberal acquaintances, one a now deceased professor at UF. A liberal who thinks all the way through will even posit that those students and teachers who would have died had the killer not been stopped by a citizen with a gun should have died and are therefore wrongfully alive.
FEWER victims. Less victims would be inferior victims. If the noun being quantified is plural FEWER is correct. If the noun is singular LESS is correct i.e. Less water and fewer gallons of water.
It will be hard to undermine in Florida. Arming teachers will not be permitted in South Florida. It is a local option thing, I think.
Bombs are easier to detect beforehand and historically are less likely to to go actually bang than guns.
That’ll just be the opening salvo. The intellectual and rhetorical pretzels they will make will put the midway soft pretzel vendors to shame.
Remember, with liberalism facts are irrelevant. It's all about the narrative.
Wonder why we're not hearing more about the most recent school attack?
The perps didn't fit the narrative. They were obama loving, Trump hating white kids...one was transgender.
Fewer attacks and less bloodshed. Attacker has skin in the game.
Fewer attacks and less bloodshed. Attacker has skin in the game.
Better to be judged by 12 (or fired) than carried by six...
Lesser would mean inferior.
True, less is used for uncountable quantities, and fewer for countable quantities. Fewer dollars, but less money. Since victims are countable, they could be fewer but not (except in an informal sense, which everyone understands) less.
So precisely what are you recommending as a remedy as you seem thoroughly intent on convincing us any action we take would be thwarted by shadowy ner-do-wells?
My point is no matter what we do the Left wind media is going to spin it negatively.
We need to be prepared for that.
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