I am totally for having armed personnel at schools... I guess where my concern lies is “who” is armed. I overheard a conversation at my youngest child’s elementary school... a teacher said that no other teacher at that school would be comfortable enough with that responsibility. Her statement was, “I got a teaching degree to teach children. If I wanted to be a cop, I would have gone into law enforcement”. My middle school daughter told me one of her teachers said this to the class..”I wouldn’t have been able to do what the CT teacher did... I’d be out the window in two seconds”. My daughter took the statement as meaning she would protect herself first.. to heck with “you” kids. Not my job type of mentality. Now.. my oldest son is in high school and there is an armed police officer at that school. To be honest, I worry about him the least vs my other two (simply because there is at least one armed person there)
Over the years, I have dealt with teachers that are so liberal, mamby pamby that it would curl your hair. Some of the teachers admitted to dealing with their own Manic Depression of Bipolar disorders. One of my sons teachers in middle school was arrested for waving his uh.. thing at a bus of school kids. Another showed up three sheets to the wind so often that the county finally forced him into rehab (or be fired). A third would often fall asleep in class after taking some sort of prescription pills.
I am all for having someone trained/confident in his/her ability and armed in schools. I guess where my concern lies is the “who” part. For example, I know my own county has a lot of police officers on limited/light duty for issues such as a bad knee, etc.. I am fine with that person being armed at a school. Or, the police officers that are ready to retire in five or less years. I am betting a school security job (m-f, day time, no weekends etc..) would be snatched up immediately. And for the teachers who have the constitution for being armed, I’m fine with it as long as they accept the responsibility wholeheartedly.
Oh I totally agree with you. As someone said last week, the last line of defense for your child is their teacher. Hmmmm. There were some heroes at Sandy Hook, no doubt; however, a lot of teachers are Lefty libs ... do I want to trust my kid’s life to them? No way.
Either properly trained teachers who volunteer to carry and who WILL step up and defend the kids, an armed security guard (some of them can be worthless), an off-duty armed cop, retired armed military ... I’d be ok with that. These whackos who do the shooting are looking to make a statement and notoriety is part of it, too. They are looking for the “path of least resistance”. The VT shooter killed himself when he heard the police breaking in, the Sandy Hook shooter killed himself when he heard the sirens ..... these shooters do NOT want to be taken alive, they need to have ‘the power’ and they want easy victims. An armed person(s), whether teacher, guard, cop, military is a *deterrent* ... something the media and the Lefties don’t seem to understand. It’s why crime goes down when there is concealed carry - the bad guys don’t want to take the chance that someone is armed. This is why *gun-free* zones are a magnet for shooters. As I said, it will happen again because while the Lefties want to ban guns, they can’t ban evil ... in fact, they are evil enablers themselves. Hmmmm .... next Leftie who goes after me on guns, that’s what I’m going to tell them... “YOU are an EVIL enabler”. I pray your kids will stay safe ... I can’t imagine have kids in public schools right now.