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Security systems are no longer expensive. Armed guards can be existing school employees who are required to undergo extra training in weapons and defense.

The idea of securing the nation's schools is no more far-fetched than securing airport terminal gates.

1 posted on 03/28/2023 9:43:25 AM PDT by Hostage
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2 posted on 03/28/2023 9:44:29 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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Schools can most certainly be secured. Gun free zones make me nervous. Nothing wrong with RESPONSIBLE people carrying.


4 posted on 03/28/2023 9:45:18 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (re)
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Would rather see $100 billion spent on securing OUR nation’s borders.


7 posted on 03/28/2023 9:47:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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So the central government should have armed agents in every religious school?

I'm not sure that's what our founding fathers had in mind.

8 posted on 03/28/2023 9:47:30 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To answer your question: Because the war in Ukraine is a war being fought for our political class and their financial backers. They care about enrich themselves far more than they care about the peons they rule over.


9 posted on 03/28/2023 9:49:36 AM PDT by Kazan
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Not with federal dollars. Begin with shuttered the federal department of education. Outlaw teachers unions. Education tax dollars should go directly to parents and parents should choose how and where to educate their children. Let parents decide the level of security they want. A one size fits all solution is doomed to waste and failure.


11 posted on 03/28/2023 9:51:53 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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100 billion to Ukraine, Bush’s 10 year long Compassionate war costing 4 trillion...Afghanistan many hundreds of billions more, trillions to foreign aid to countries all over the planet, then add in the government sponsored invasion of the U.S. costing hundreds of billions more....

I’m starting to wonder how in hell this is even possible and why would we do this to our own people?

What an epic disgrace.


12 posted on 03/28/2023 9:52:42 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ih5lMnLy8

Watch this.....It's SPOT on!!

13 posted on 03/28/2023 9:54:31 AM PDT by Osage Orange
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Why?
Because gun control activists and politicians NEED more shootings, more dead children to get what they desire.


15 posted on 03/28/2023 9:58:26 AM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Scary unvaccinated American )
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Lol. Very little of that goes to Ukraine. Biden had to find money to fund his projects Manchin wouldn’t vote for.


16 posted on 03/28/2023 9:59:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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If we secured our schools the Ds would have less opportunities to politicize the 2A


17 posted on 03/28/2023 10:01:31 AM PDT by JonPreston
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Ukraine should be supported...it’s the gazillions being blown on global warming/green energy that is the high crime.


18 posted on 03/28/2023 10:02:01 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I will not let a person who gave $85 billion in weapons and billions more in cash to the Taliban tell me that I cannot have an AR-15.


19 posted on 03/28/2023 10:02:46 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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The people running the government hate Americans and are generally pretty stupid


20 posted on 03/28/2023 10:04:07 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Securing our schools could be done for effectively no money at all. Train the teachers and allow them to carry guns. Since Israel did this there hasn’t been one school terror attack.

The problem with security systems is two-fold. One, the people who must use them daily learn how they can be bypassed and often do so. After passing through a normal security electronic and physical search at the St. Pete courthouse I was looking out a window and saw someone had propped open a fire door and people were going in and out without passing security. I went back to the security guards and spoke to the ranking guard. He rolled his eyes and said that the chief judge didn’t like going through security, so he had that door propped open. I asked, then what good is your security check here? He blushed and thanked me for my attention to the problem.

The other problem is the bad guys may just walk up to the security section and kill the guards. If you listen to witnesses or participants where something like that happens, they will invariably say something like, “I just couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t react.”

Training and arming the teachers is better because some of them will be far enough away to have the necessary decision space to realize what is happening and then react to it appropriately. From that perspective, having ten armed teachers spread around the campus is superior to having a guard. Also, in many cases where there is security the guards ARE NOT ARMED.

Years ago at the Honeywell plant where I worked a cuckolded husband walked up to the guard on the midnight shift, cranked a round into his 12 ga pump shotgun and asked the guard, “Where’s Lola?” Without hesitation the guard answered, “Aile J Beam 12.” He didn’t even lie. (Lola, the wife, was on break having sex with her supervisor. The husband was later captured without incident by sheriff deputies.) My takeaway lesson was an unarmed guard is only good for giving the shooter directions.


24 posted on 03/28/2023 10:11:31 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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PERSONNEL ARE EN ROUTE TO ESCORT YOU & YOUR FAMILY TO A REEDUCATION FACILITY.

YOU HAVE 30 MINUTES TO PACK FOR 3 WEEKS.


25 posted on 03/28/2023 10:13:00 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Watch out, with an attitude like that you’ll be labeled a Putin stooge.


26 posted on 03/28/2023 10:16:50 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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..So why didn't Speaker Nancy Pelosi appropriate the funds? Was she more focused on gun confiscation instead?

pelosi coudn't be seen as being cooperative with anything President Trump might sugget or offer.. See also his offer for National Guard for Jan 6th rally. Any cooperation would ruin her career and her facade.

27 posted on 03/28/2023 10:23:08 AM PDT by SGCOS (not vaccinated for covid and never will be)
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Amen!!!


28 posted on 03/28/2023 10:23:19 AM PDT by Hattie
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“The idea of securing the nation’s schools is no more far-fetched than securing airport terminal gates.”


Not arguing with your basic point, but aside from armed staff, the school appeared to have pretty decent security. The murderer shot her way into the church/school by shooting out the glass in the doors. The (silent) security footage from the school shows a flashing lights after she shot her way in.

The police footage, with sound, has alarms going off as they hunt for the murderer.


29 posted on 03/28/2023 10:24:52 AM PDT by hanamizu
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