Posted on 08/10/2013 11:11:53 AM PDT by neverdem
A majority of American parents with grade-school children say they would feel safer if their child attended a school with an armed guard, according to a new Rasmussen poll.
Sixty-two percent of those surveyed said they’d feel safer if their child attended such a school, against only 24 percent who say they’d feel safer if their child went to a school where no adult was allowed to own a gun. Fifteen percent weren’t sure.
The poll comes a week after Arkansas’s attorney general, Democrat Dustin McDaniel, said school districts in his state can’t employ teachers and staff as armed guards on campus because a state board that licenses private security agencies didn’t have the authority to allow them to do so. He did, however, say his ruling wouldn’t stop schools from contracting with private companies or using law enforcement as school-resource officers.
I would feel safer. It’s a no-brainer, if we can’t protect our schools and children in them what future is there? Why can’t psychologically tested ex-military snipers be employed and stationed on the school rooftop? If an individual gets out of a vehicle in combat gear carrying guns, drop’em in the parking lot. One shot and no one in the school is endangered.
Ex military get employed, they are professional at hitting targets at a distance, and the kids aren’t exposed to gunfire in the school. Why not?
If I were a creepy pedophile, I would be angling for one of those guard jobs.
I don’t like the armed guard idea. It means the schools have lost control of the discipline situation, way back at the early grades.
I would feel safer. It’s a no-brainer, if we can’t protect our schools and children in them what future is there? Why can’t psychologically tested ex-military snipers be employed and stationed on the school rooftop? If an individual gets out of a vehicle in combat gear carrying guns, drop’em in the parking lot. One shot and no one in the school is endangered.
Ex military get employed, they are professional at hitting targets at a distance, and the kids aren’t exposed to gunfire in the school. Why not?
So the psycho takes out the rent-a-cop first and then moves on to the children.
“I don’t like the armed guard idea. It means the schools have lost control of the discipline situation, way back at the early grades.”
I think they’re more worried about an active shooter in the school rather than running in the hallways. :)
“...So the psycho takes out the rent-a-cop first and then moves on to the children...”
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And your solution would be ... what?
I do not like the idea of armed guards at the schools. Who would be oversight? How are we to be assured the new armed guard wont be used in the way the neostasi police are now used? What level of armed guard are we talking about? A single sidearm, or one of these losers that dress up in bullet bouncers and blackhawk industries tacticool regalia?
A large part of me believes in my heart that the powers that are pushing the armed guard stance are wanting to be able to use the guards to control the students out of fear. If a kids gets accused of pissession of pot is mr armed security guard going to “take him out” and stand on his head telling the student he wished he could cane the.student?
Be careful what you guys are wishing for.
Agreed. Indoctrination. Get them used to armed guards at an early age and they won't question armed guards everywhere. So much for freedoms.
My kids are out of school now, and my grand kids are headed there. I’d like to see armed school police at all the schools. Not just “guards”, but trained police officers. We have them at our high schools, but I’d like to see our elementary and middle schools have them as well, and have the schools as well protected as Israeli schools.
Hell, we pay billions to protect the assholes in DC! We pay hardly anything to protect our most valuable possessions, our children.
Another reason for the Separation of School and State.
I agree 100%-and if armed guards are hired to protect our kids, then we no longer have the right to call this a free coutry-we are a nation of clueless, bleating sheep, and that’s baaaaad...
Qualified teachers conceal carry and the school clearly posts at all entrances that this is the case. Is it tiny Mrs. Smith, the roughneck football coach, or both? Having a security guard simply puts a target on that person’s back, plus they can’t be everywhere all of the time. The security guard is not familiar with the building’s culture and climate, and as a teacher I can assure you that it is almost it’s own little ecosystem so to speak. We can read the kids much better than the guy whose shift it happens to be that day. I know who is and is not supposed to be in the building, the guard does not. And by the way, it is very easy to get into today’s locked down school buildings.
For the very fastidious and fearful, implement some basic training (not necessary in the real world, but probably essential in many states not yet used to the utility of CCW civilians.
"A large part of me believes in my heart that the powers that are pushing the armed guard stance are wanting to be able to use the guards to control the students out of fear."
Not at all. The "PTB" (powers-that-be) are adamantly OPPOSED to the idea (remember, it was originally suggested by that EVIL organization.....the National Rifle Association).
All of the schools in my county have a sheriff’s deputy assigned there during school hours.
This is not anything new, it was that way long before the Newtown incident.
Our county chose to put that kind of priority value on our children here.
Sign in front of school;
“Half our staff are trained and carry concealed firearms.
Guess which ones”
We have Sheriff’s Deputies in our schools. They know the kids and the kids know them.
“We have Sheriff’s Deputies in our schools. They know the kids and the kids know them.”
The deputies and the children would be more safe if the deputies are in plainclothes and concealed carry.
I have no problem with having personnel with CCWs carry during school. The only people I personally know that have a problem with that idea do not have children in school.
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