Posted on 12/22/2012 7:34:35 PM PST by Red Steel
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On Friday, the NRA announced that Hutchinson — also a former Homeland Security official and now a lawyer predominantly focused on white-collar crime — will spearhead an effort to put armed guards at schools in hopes of preventing mass shootings like the one on Dec. 14 in Connecticut that killed 20 young children and 6 adults.
"School safety is a complex issue with no simple, single solution," Hutchinson said at Friday's news conference. "But I believe trained, qualified, armed security is one key component among many that can provide the first line of deterrence as well as the last line of defense."
His effort, dubbed the National School Shield Program, would have a "budget provided by the NRA of whatever scope the task requires." It will focus on producing a security model, which may rely on local volunteers as armed security guards and would be offered for adoption at every school in America free of charge, NRA officials said.
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"I think promoting hunting and shooting sports in general is a strong tradition in Arkansas, and it's a tradition that dies out if it is not passed on to the next generation," he told the Democrat-Gazette.
When asked about the connection between hunting weapons and the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Americans the right to bear arms, he said: "To me, it's a matter of freedom, it's a matter of history and tradition, and it's a matter of self-protection."
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In all 100,000 plus schools?
So who exactly is going to pay for this big government wet dream?
Just put it on the card.
Yesterday our local school announced that they weren’t closing because of the surge in threats that they don’t take seriously. They said that would be rewarding bad behavior. Instead they had school as normal with the front door and eyes wide open. (around here its pretty likely that some of the staff are armed anyway)
I loved it. Now if only we could go back to when they could be armed if they wanted.
Has the NRA simply determined to abandon all liberty and principle and shill for Marxism? I despise them to the last for this betrayal.
Sounds like your schools at least have a handle on reality. Good for them.
Say what...
See the last few lines in the article or right here below.
Hutchinson - When asked about the connection between hunting weapons and the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Americans the right to bear arms, he said: "To me, it's a matter of freedom, it's a matter of history and tradition, and it's a matter of self-protection."
You know as well as I do it ain’t gonna happen that way.
If the NRA had half a brain they would be going directly to the states and urging them to pass laws allowing armed staff.
Besides, were still talking about something that has happened in a tiny fraction of a percent of the 100,000 plus schools in America.
The NRA is not against that idea but to the contrary:
Hutchinson - "Armed, trained, qualified school security personnel will be one element of that plan, but by no means the only element.
If a school decides for whatever reason that it doesn't want or need armed security personnel, that of course is a decision to be made by parents at the local level.
The second point I want to make is that this will be a program that doesn't depend on massive funding from local authorities or the federal government. Instead, it'll make use of local volunteers serving in their own communities."
How about individual school districts? What's more important, the safety and security of the students or pissing money away on administrators and nonessential activities?
How much do you think "local volunteers" cost?
From the article: It will focus on producing a security model, which may rely on local volunteers as armed security guards.
How many is not relevant when one is causing serious threats to our freedoms.
I don't have a local school and I'm not calling for a ban on firearms, magazines or ammunition.
Irrational fear is a powerful motivator isn't it?
Being a former wildland firefighter, I know all about fighting fire with fire, do you?
Gun-free zones are killing our kids!
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/dec/20/indiana-law-already-allows-teachers-carry-guns/
“What if the teacher had to break up a fight? A student may be able to take the gun away. And if a gun is fired, where should the teacher aim to avoid a stray bullet hitting someone?
“I do respect the fact that schools feel they have to do something,” Hibbert said. But, he added, “arming teachers to me would be the last step rather than the first step.”
Legitimate concerns, I suppose, or maybe red herrings although I don’t think he intended them as such. If Dawn Hochsprung (Sandy Hook’s principal) had been armed, she could have nailed the shooter and saved a lot of lives, rather than (bravely) throwing herself at the shooter and getting shot.
Is any lefty screwball actually prepared to take the position that if she could have wished a Glock in her hand that Friday morning, that she would not have? Yeah, well maybe they would ...
But why does he consider this a “last step”? No teacher is going to pull a gun from, say, a palm-keyed, locked safe drawer under his desk to break up a fight. S/he will draw it to shoot an armed lunatic.
The cost? A handgun, some ammo and range time—and willing teachers/school administrators. Of course this is like assigning blame to the real culprit here: mental illness, rather than guns, and steals the left’s ghoulish thunder.
Cuomo, Feinstein, et al. ... do whatever you want in your states, but keep your suicidal stupidity the hell out of Indiana.
Maybe officers that retire in their 40s can put in an extra 2 years as Peace Officers. Do they deserve extra remuneration, or should it be part of their contract with minor adjustments?
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