Posted on 12/31/2022 3:47:18 AM PST by marktwain
On October 1, 1997, school principal Joel Myrick (a U.S. Army Reserve Major) stopped a shooting at the Pearl Mississippi High School by holding the killer at gunpoint until police arrived. A student had assisted by blocking the killer’s car with their car. The killer attempted to drive around the other vehicle but became stuck. At that point, Joel Myrick pointed his .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol at the killer, and the killer surrendered.
At the time, it was illegal for Joel Myrick to bring his personal weapon onto the school property. He had to retrieve it from his car. No one attempted to prosecute Myrick for breaking the federal gun-free school zone act.
Thirteen years later, in 2011, Mississippi passed a bill creating a shall-issue enhanced carry permit, which allows the possessors to carry in several otherwise prohibited locations, such as schools and colleges, places that serve alcohol, polling places, meetings of the legislature, airline passenger terminals (excepting federally secured areas) and churches. This effectively allowed carrying in schools by people with the enhanced permit.
In 2016, Mississippi passed a state version of Constitutional Carry (permitless carry). The permitless carry law did not apply to schools. From Mississippitoday.com:
In 1990, the board created a policy which prohibited weapons in schools, except in the possession of law enforcement officials. The policy also allowed districts to create additional rules about weapons in their district. But in 2012, when state lawmakers passed an enhanced carry law that allowed enhanced permit holders to carry weapons on school campuses, the board never updated its policy.
The board voted in July to adopt a temporary rule change to address this issue, and after receiving and reviewing public comment, the board made
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A very good idea.
More states should adopt it.
Yes, it is common sense and gun free zones are invitations for bad guys. A Sandy Hook victim’s father is regularly seen on You Tube advertising pleading for the prohibition of assault weapons. But having some armed folks of sound mind and steady hands in the schools is part of the real solution.
Indeed. John Lott has researched the issue, and places that allow "in-school" CCW have had exactly ZERO "mass shootings".
As long as “democrats” continue to run for public office jobs, there will be school shootings. Something like this needs to be done in every state.
Democrats WANT mass school shootings. It plays well into their narrative
Bigger signs?
Myrick was one of my clients at one time. He is a very honorable man.
Several churches have had killers stopped by parishioners with weapons.
I bet most, if not all, assignments are handed in ON TIME!
Exactly. Which is why Buffalo and that shooting at that Texas school this year are so suspicious.
Thanks to a conservative legislature and Governor DeSantis, very visitor to Gulf County FL schools is greeted with:
“Staff members are ARMED and TRAINED.” “Any attempt to harm children will be met with Deadly Force.”
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