Posted on 12/21/2012 11:46:44 AM PST by rarestia
Do you agree with the NRA that an armed officer should be posted in every school? Yes(72%) No(28%)
NO, The TSA will try to take charge of them. It must be a local solution for it to work. The same plan will not work everywhere.
Do you agree with the NRA that an armed officer should be posted in every school?
Yes(73%)
No(27%)
They should train and arm teachers and administrative staff, not hire a bunch of “cops.” They should have faculty gun clubs.
Liberals have to change on this subject of guns. The Conn. school had liberalism’s policy. It was a gun free zone. And what the NRA and everyone else said when liberals imposed that wacky policy, was that it was setting the schools up with a lack of self defense should something terrible happen.
Liberals were wrong and they need to admit it. They have enough blood on their hands now.
We’ve had them for decades here....
As with most problems, this one can be solved with straight up technology. But the cheapest and most flexible is probably armed public.
Dumb.
Maybe the stupidest idea by a non lib I have ever come across in my lifetime.
Hell, I would volunteer to be a school guard once a week if it meant I could get out of work without risk of being fired.
Go one step further: they “deputize” retirees to be crossing guards. Why not arm those volunteers, many of whom are pillars of their communities and often retired vets, and allow them to be on the school property full time as volunteers?
We need to take the fight of incrementalism back to the liberals. They’ve incrementally scaled back the Constitution over the years, we need to incrementally bring it back to the front of the public discussion.
Traditional American values and the Constitution should be at the forefront of every honest civic discussion. We are NOT like the rest of the world because we wanted to be different. We should not be shying away from that, we should be embracing our heritage.
The treasonous bastards in DC need to realize that they’re part of this experiment to keep it going, not to turn us into Europe West.
Are you talkin’ ‘bout ValJar?
The NRA proposal is the next best thing.
Regardless, the next target will be school buses, which means the bus drivers will need to carry.
LaPierre's statement today was excellent. Unfortunately, the media won't report it, or will distort it.
it’s not exactly a 20 - 80 split but close enough for that rule to apply in this case. I’m still waiting for those of us in the 80% category to once and for all take a stand against the utopian idiot 20% that continue to foist their enslavement type rules on the rest of us. However, I am not holding my breath. Kids taught by communists will themselves adopt the communist style mind set as well as that kind of government structure.
74%—YES
26%-NO
GO FREEPERS!
It should not be generally known who or how many “School Marshals” are at each school. Make it similar to the air marshals.
AND HOW MANY HI JACKINGS HAVE HAD????
NONE.
duhhhhhh.
Few know what they will do when the bullets start to fly. That's why you need more than one adult on hand to be ready to risk their lives to defend the lives of others. End gun free zones, teach teachers self defense, and pay them more for law enforcement or military combat experience. LaPierre's solution will merely create another unionized bureaucracy incapable of addressing the level of actual risk in the case of a heavily armed attacker.
Exactly.
It’s a stupid idea, far from the concept of the 2nd Amendment, and a huge, expensive boon to police unions. Why not just mandate concealed carry permits nationwide and ban all “gun free zones”? There will be no end to well-trained parents and teachers willing to step up and defend the schools. End of problem.
Bad idea, I think. Allow teachers and administrators to carry if they want to, and require that at least one person at each campus is trained in firearms and has a weapon at the ready.
Frankly, I’d answer no and select the alternative arming of school staff, which wasn’t an option, if I had the choice.
If we consider the per person cost broken down across 600 parents at the Newtown school, for instance, the fee would be rather minimal if training and arming only five teachers was the outcome, and they were simply paid a monthly stipend for become part of a on site security team.
I’m not convinced these staff would demand increased pay. They might do it out of sense of devotion to the children as long as their certification/equipment costs were covered.
There are very low impact resolutions to this problem if people truly look for them with a reasoned mind.
Don’t expect this to emanate from Washington. (I’m sure you don’t...)
Vouchers for all students.
Then let each school decide what it wants to do.
Parents will be back in charge.
OK?
agreed!
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