An American Beslan?

IBD Editorial ^ | 20 Mar 07 | Unknown

[Mom MD]

that and the media is still excoriating them here in Denver for not going in right away. In retrospect, they should have gone in Columbine right away, they may have saved lives that way.

But up against muslim terrorists whose only goal is to kill as many as possible, I'm not sure any strategy is effective. They will not be 2 novice teenagers randomly shooting. I could see them waiting to get as many LEO's as possible in the building before they blew it up. I'm afraid once they get in a building or bus, there is zero chance of anyone coming out alive. You simply cannot defend agaist people who are willing to die bringing about their desired end, and rushing the building the LEO's would find themselves fighting against a professional army, not inexperienced teenagers. I'm afraid there is no good answer.

[Teacher317]

Perhaps it is time to arm all bus drivers and teachers

Ummm, if the problem is Muslims becoming bus drivers, then I think handing them the authority to carry firearms might add to the problem, not solve it.

(By the way, I'm have my CCW.)

[mdmathis6]

Are we prepared to shoot the so called leftist American "body shields" who are sure to try to block access to mosques against evil right wing "vigilante" types,,,?

Guaranteed there would be a bunch of peace-nik types who will try to "blunt" our anger!

[ohioman]

You got that right. And of course the Russians don't have groups like the ACLU do deal with, which wants to make the U.S. act like wussies.

I wish Al Quadea would attack the ACLU - of course it would be silly for them to attack a friend.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"Instead of using hearings to score partisan points, Congress would best serve constituents by using that power to investigate the terror threat to schools and how best to protect our children from attack."

This is a prime example of how irrelevant Congress is. Nothing should be higher on the Congressional agenda, given this FBI report, than holding these hearings.

[sauropod]

review

[George from New England]

Don't forget that one of the Demorat's goals is to create and build societal dependence on government. They'll seize the day our schools are attacked and our kids are slaughtered - they expect we will all come/go crying to them to save us. They will use that opportunity to grab all guns (or try to) and blossom the government growth like never before. That's why the libs don't want to stop this from happening; they'd much rather have us crawling to them needing their help.

Prudent people do everything possible to prevent - the libs wait til after it's already happened to pick up the pieces.

[sauropod]

Agreed.

It's coming.

[sauropod]

read this

[nmh]

I suspect they want the PUBLIC schools only because most kids go there and more bang for the buck.

I shudder alittle ... she goes to a private Christian school and Christian is in the name. They own their own buses for field trips etc and we know who drives them - employees of the school but still they are parked outside and security isn't the greatest.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1804271/posts
Still No Decision On Charges For Forgetful Bus Driver

[Phsstpok]

Simultaneous attacks on schools in multiple states would follow Osama bin Laden's goal of crippling the U.S. economy. If multiple schools were hit, parents would drop out of the work force en masse to protect their children.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

We can never have enough police to protect our free society without losing it to a police state.  We, the people, must be the ones doing the protecting in order to be effective.  The professional police must be a force designed to teach and guide the citizens to avoid mob rule or vigilantism.

And that's what that's all about.

[Mom MD]

My kids go to schools with Christian in their names as well. It is a risk, but I still think if the terrorists pull something off at a school, they want the highest body count possible, which means the bigger public schools.

We'll see, I have no illusions that my kids are any safer than anyone else, but I do know this. I will not deny the name of Christ for safety, and neither will my children.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Another good reason to pull your kids out of public skrewls and home school them.

[CJ Wolf]

What about Muhammed and malvo, they targeted a school in this country. Shot a kid. Or are they not considered Jihadists?

[PGalt]

Thanks to all researchers/linkers. BTTT.

[pandoraou812]

IMO they were. I think there are quite a few nut cases we aren't told are linked to terror but really are... Thats just my opinion..

[justshutupandtakeit]

That was a feeling more than a conclusion based upon how odd the announcement was and what is generally considered to be an extremist. Be that as it may this article does not quote the FBI wrt being muslim. Since the FBI did NOT initially say that has there been another announcement or did the reporter come to his own conclusion?

[Calpernia]

>>>I think there are quite a few nut cases we aren't told are linked to terror but really are... Thats just my opinion

I agree. And more. We have allies and policy makers that need to be named and held accountable also. Until they are, we will all continue to be victims.

[marshmallow]

These people have nothing better to do than sit around and think of ways to kill us and our most precious resource, our children.

I'm not sure our children are "our most precious resource".

We actually do the same thing, but we have a nice sounding euphemism for it; "choice". We depict it as a sign of freedom and liberty.