Posted on 12/16/2012 5:17:02 AM PST by Kaslin
My heart is sick. I feel so sorry for the children who were murdered, as well as the parents and loved ones of the slain kids and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. All of us here in the U.S.—who still have a soul—pray for those whose lives were just senselessly shattered.
But imagine if at least one teacher (with a concealed weapons permit) had their .40-caliber Glock with them, locked and loaded, when this weed Adam Lanza began his murderous mayhem Friday on the Sandy Hook Elementary School campus. What would have happened differently?
Would idiot boy have been able to slay 20 children and 6 teachers? I doubt it. But then again … who knows? However, I’m guessing that this terminal turd might not have dealt out as much death (if any) if the good guy with the gun drew down on him and double-tapped the center mass of this jackass with a couple of jacketed hollow points.
Unfortunately, there was no concealed weapon in the possession of a teacher to stop this satanic weed from taking root because guns are disallowed on campus. Correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t the majority of the mass murders within the U.S. in the last 20 to 30 years been in Gun Free Zones?
Gun Free Zones turn the people who inhabit such places into sitting ducks for insane whack jobs with death wishes. I know, some schools have campus cops and security systems; however, that line of defense brings zero comfort to most parents if serious bullet flying $#*& starts hitting the fan in one of their kids’ classes.
Look, even the best Rambo-like police force equipped to the teeth, driving Vipers and descending en masse on a school in Black Hawk helicopters could not have responded fast enough to kill this Lanza piece of crap. But a fast-thinking, well-trained teacher could have.
I hate to seem pessimistic, but given this current “poor me” entitlement culture, I don’t see an atmospheric break in this violent weather pattern. I guarantee that even as I type and our nation weeps, there is, somewhere in the United States of Political Correctness, some disenfranchised dipstick making plans on how he can trump Adam Lanza’s slaughter. Chilling.
Call me simple. Call me a redneck. Call me whatever the hell you wanna call me—but until we allow credible, licensed, proven and protective teachers to carry a weapon on campus, we will see this murderous madness occur again and again and again.
Matter of fact, if I owned and operated Doug Giles Elementary School I would mandate that all my teachers be weapons trained and carry a live pistol openly at all times. I bet that 100% of the parents who lost their children today wish that their child’s teacher had a gun in order to defend their now deceased child.
We can’t afford to rely on security systems or chunky security guards with golf carts, pepper spray, whistles and plastic badges to safeguard against these armed death dealers from hell.
The reality is that this stuff goes down when you least expect it, and as long as schools don’t have some armed teachers and faculty who have been properly trained and equipped to kill the post-pubescent perps, the more we will continue to carry innocent children out of their classrooms in black body bags. Call me weird, but in every school shooting there should be only one casualty—namely the gun-wielding culprit who commenced the chaos … and not your Crayon-carrying kids or their teachers.
Not ALL teachers. Get real. Some teachers can not or will not know how to carry/use a gun properly, and putting a gun in their custody will be a very grave mistake.
An armed police officer in each school sounds like a good idea. Hopefully his duty day would be the most boring day he ever imagined. But his presence would be likely to keep the mass murderer away. Expensive? Let’s not talk money when it comes to keeping the kids safe.
Now there's a thought to make me glad we're on Christmas break.
I teach and work on a Land Grant University campus. Granted, I have a CCW but I keep a 9 mm handy in the office (under lock and key in my desk).
MFO
That's actually a very good point I haven't seen anyone bring up before.
... and weapons and drugs still are smuggled into prisons. When society has gone morally soft on the inside, no amount of physical hardening on the outside will save it.
Oh, that's not true. I work for LAUSD, in a downtown school, in the belly of the liberal beast, and any parent who volunteers to come help us out, we fall all over them, practically drooling gratitude. We have several parent volunteers here every day and when there's a field trip, we literally go begging. We bribe parents with food and coffee. Anything to get them to come in and just be an adult around the school showing the kids that they are not in a grown-up-free zone.
Bump.
Well, not here in Los Angeles.
Way overboard. Who wants a million newly armed guv employees anyway?
Liberals do not make the connection between arming pilots and nothing happening, do they?
I’ve been around too many people who have no business holding a gun. But we need to make these nuts believe that someone could be carrying a gun...no matter the location.
If there had been a police car outside that school, I bet old Aspieboy would have gone somewhere else.
7.2 million
Number of teachers in the United States in 2009.
Almost 3 million taught at the elementary and middle school level.
The remainder included those teaching at the postsecondary, secondary, preschool, kindergarten levels, special education and other teachers or instructors.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as cited in the Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2011, Table 615 http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Thanks for the research—that’s a lot of teachers (and government employees)!
The Israelis have all the capable adults carry uzis in school.
It's hard to pinpoint, but I'd guess the overwhelming majority of teachers in the USA are hard-core communists.
In July of 2010, the AFT was the second-largest education labor union in the United States. AFT represented an estimated 1.5 million members which included 250,000 retirees.
Wikipedia - American Federation of Teachers
In 2007, at the 150th anniversary of its founding, NEA membership had grown to 3.2 million.[citation needed] However, five years later, USA Today reported that NEA had lost more than 100,000 members since 2010.[30]
Wikipedia - National_Education_Association"
the only problem with that is we have some weirdo teachers. Perhaps only certain teachers that pass training and are not psychos could be permitted to carry in school..
I think its utterly rediculous to have 26 people murdered in a gunfree victim zone with no chance of defending themselves.
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