98% of mass-shootings occur in gun-free zones.
Posted on 06/04/2022 6:27:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
We Can Defend What We Choose to Defend
In response to attacks and tragedy from terrorists and from psychos, we’ve “hardened” many potential targets, including the White House, the Capitol, federal office buildings, and airports. The French have even made the Mona Lisa a hard target. All this is fitting and proper. If something valuable is “soft” or vulnerable, then it needs to be defended.
So now, in the wake of the mass murder in Uvalde, TX, on May 24, we must do what we should have done a long time ago: harden the schools. America’s children are worth it.
Many proposals have been put forward. Here, for example, are ideas from A.W.R. Hawkins of Breitbart News, from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and from House Republicans. Also, here’s a 2018 report from the U.S. Secret Service. The various proposals have a common thread: Effective hardening of a target involves the interplay of identifying, deterring, and neutralizing the attacker.
Even a Washington Post columnist, Kathleen Parker—a onetime conservative who has moved fashionably, if not completely, to the left–agrees with the idea of active, armed defense:
The very least we can do is make sure every school in this country is safe from predators, no matter the cost. And, yes, train and arm the teachers who are willing. No more fooling around.
Indeed, a new poll out shows that a majority of Americans favor arming teachers as an option.
Needless to say, it would be better if the police were handling school security. And yet the apparent failure of the Uvalde authorities is a sobering reminder that absent strong leadership, a deterioration of professionalism can happen to any organization. As they say in the U.S. Army, a low standard becomes the new standard.
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Let’s hope the armed teachers will do a better job than the armed cops did. But I’m not optimistic.
Wouldn’t it be more effective to re-open our psychiatric hospitals and get the mentally ill and addicts the help they need, and put/keep the criminals in prison?
98% of mass-shootings occur in gun-free zones.
98% of mass-shootings occur in gun-free zones.
Abolishing them seems like a logical thing to do first.
The problem is, that the Leftists who are apoplectic over these nutjobs killing people DO NOT Care about any solution other than disarming all Americans of their Rights.
They do not care about these atrocities for any other reason than as vehicles to justify their obsession with rendering us, defenseless serfs. The Hoi Polloi they desire to establish complete and total control over.
Leftists hate the entire concept of We The People. They consider We The People as their personal property that they own and can totally control as they wish.
That would be common sense and there doesn’t seem to be any in DC.
Maybe we should fight them rather than saying "the problem is."
Just a thought.
Mass shooters are mostly cowards, sick and tired of perceived bullying who want to literally go out with a bang (suicide or suicide by cop) AFTER racking up the highest body count possible by targeting places where disarmed people gather.
Best deterrent is to eliminate target-rich “gun free zones” and introduce the element of uncertainty that any “target” might have any number of armed people ready, willing, and able to take the coward out.
Ping to post # 9.
Thoughts?
Arm everyone. We’ll sort it out ourselves. Government has done a horrible job of...
Well...
Everything.
When a gun is pointed at YOU, you have an entirely different attitude than when it is pointed at someone else.
If the gun were pointed at them, the cops would not have stood there discussing equipment they wanted.
YES! YES! YES!
This. We can harden schools all we want and the next school shooter will simply target a football game.
+1
A good start to be sure.
If I recall correctly Governor Engler shut them down here in Michigan back in the 80’s. That’s my recollection.
Why?
The attacker has the element of surprise. The attacker can choose to strike at the weakest part of the defense.
We're looking for a 100% solution to this problem and that unfortunately isn't reality.
I'm not saying we don't try....just have to be realistic.
January 6. Look at gubmint’s response. National Guard. Fences. Uber security.
Correction. It was Engler, but in the 90’s.
It occurs to me to ponder the consequences of requiring every American to undergo thorough arms and self-defense training, and to always be armed. Seems to me that would put a stop to this nonsense PDQ.
Totally agree.
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