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 ...
This Santa Cruz resident is a product of public schools.
I remember when kids brought guns to school for show and tell. The first I ever saw in school (1956)was in Farmington NM at McCormick school south of the Animas River. A kid had a military muzzle loading pistol to show the class.
Later years, when you saw a kid with a gun or large knife in school you knew they were in leathercraft class and making a holster for it.
At that time, all the boys had folding knives and at lunch would set around and whet the blade on a stone.
That was before the effeminization of American boys began.
Ms. Hawthorne I fear you just may have given the lunatics in your area an idea.
How these people can be so naïve and illogical is beyond my understanding.
We never had a problem in schools until liberals said so.
Throw in “fiscal cliff” and “kick the can down the road” and I’m in.
The blood of the Sandy Hook massacre victims stains the Santa Cruz City Schools board members and all those who seek to criminalize self defense.
Yeah, and after getting the point good and sharp it was off to the nearest patch of grass for Mumbley Peg!! (Not sure if that is the correct spelling). Now that was a fun before elementary school, during lunch time, and after school pocket knife game huh? Closest to your own foot was the winner and accidentally stickin your own foot was an automatic ‘right now’ winner! (That is how we played it anyway). If ya saw a classmate limpin’ along with some ‘red on the Keds’ you knew he had won at least one game that day!! And if there was a ‘who’s knife is closest’ argument, we called over the teacher who was on outside duty to declare the winner! Sure was different then...
Without criminals and crazies Santa Cruz would go bankrupt. The bulk of the city’s budget consists of teachers, shrinks, bureaucrats and their dependent clientele. Without State and Federal funding to serve them the cash flow would stop cold.
“It would make me nervous to have someone with a gun on campus,” Cooley said. “It would be scary for the children.”
The idiocy of the ‘educated’ never ceases to amaze. What way, other than armed response, might readily stop an armed attack?
Children are the future of this nation. We are kidding ourselves to believe ‘gun-free’ zones contribute to their safety and protection. Gun-free zones embolden the nutjobs because they do not expect armed confrontation and response.
LOL, you should have warned me.
That’s an Obama voter, dontcha know?
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