Posted on 12/26/2012 7:36:32 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
SANTA CRUZ -- The Santa Cruz City Schools board is expected to consider a resolution next month calling for stricter national gun control laws and improved mental health services -- not placing an armed guard in schools, as an influential gun lobbying group has recommended.
In response to the Dec. 14 school shooting in Connecticut that left 20 first-graders dead, school board Vice President Cynthia Hawthorne is drafting a symbolic statement that will call for banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines nationwide, as well as greater state and federal investment in mental health care and early-childhood education on conflict resolution.
"We are just having a call for sanity," said Hawthorne, who added that the National Rifle Association's recommendation last week to arm guards on campuses contradicts the notion of security. "A safe schools policy implies that there are to be no guns on campus by anybody." ....
Jennifer Cooley, secretary of the Home and School Club of Green Acres Elementary in Live Oak, said she would not support armed protection, despite a lockdown the school experienced after a jail inmate escaped from nearby Dominican Hospital and stole a deputy's gun two years ago.
"It would make me nervous to have someone with a gun on campus," Cooley said. "It would be scary for the children."
Francisco Rodriguez, president of the 1,100-member Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers union, said he would support a resolution seeking stricter gun laws nationally if his school board were to pursue one.
"I understand wanting to protect the Second Amendment, but when we have this level of violence, we are better off with preventive measures such as providing necessary mental health services as a society and limiting the access to those type of lethal weapons," Rodriguez said.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Oh crap still bad guys out there.
These people just don’t get it and never will.
For the sake of sanity, don't tell Frankie what the cafeteria cooks could do if they were both crazy and evil.
/johnny
We don’t need any nuclear deterrent, it’s scares the children. We don’t really need an army either as long as the world agrees to get rid of all their weapons. There will never be another Mao or Stalin or Hitler because those were basically good people gone wrong reacting to our militarism.
We don’t need any nuclear deterrent, it’s scares the children. We don’t really need an army either as long as the world agrees to get rid of all their weapons. There will never be another Mao or Stalin or Hitler because those were basically good people gone wrong reacting to our militarism.
I think we should TAX Politicians 1/2 of their annual Pay for everytime they utter the word(s) “Permission” or “Allowed” or “Permit” or “Regulation” or “TAX”
TT
If a gunman shows up, don’t call 911. You wouldn’t want cops showing up with GUNS to make the situation worse.
That's because you are a faggot. The NRA proposal envisions real men protecting our kids.
The Sheeple have bleated.
“Vice President Cynthia Hawthorne is drafting a symbolic statement”
Marxist nutcases are always good at “symbolic statements!”
My mind just can’t deal with this sort of insanity. It’s incompehensible.
California Dreamin'
Stupid, emotional, clueless liberal idiots in the People’s Republic of California.
How did those gun free zones work out? Not well.
Their not thinking clearly.
Sure, not everyone Needs assault weapons, but that’s not the issue.
If I’m carrying 4 six-shooter pistols I can do the same damage.
“These people just don’t get it and never will....”
How can one be so ignorant?...It is baffling....The bad guys have the guns, you want everyone else to be unarmed including yourself....You get killed.....We even skipped Christmas dinner with relatives this time.....This Thanksgiving dealing with my brothers big mouth know it all Obama voting 18 year old son turned me off so much I said no thanks to their obvious disappointment......We had no regrets either....I’m too old to deal with that nonsense.....Lived in Santa Cruz for 6 months once....HATE California......Buying a pump 12 guage to combine with my .38.........
Glad I don’t have any children in their schools or their dirthole city.
The sheer idiocy of this statement is simply breathtaking. I lost several points of IQ just reading it. To bad you can't ban stupidity. Then we might get somewhere.
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