Posted on 08/21/2019 5:59:20 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
In 1970 I was named Head Football Coach, Athletic Director and Dean of Students in a high school of nearly 2000 students.
In my role as dean I kept records of discipline actions on every student referred to me from their enrollment as 9th graders through graduation. In total the numbers represented less than 10% of the schools total population and the vast majority had only one or two referrals in four years.
But, there were a few really bad asses. It really doesn't take a psychiatrist to recognize a potential a criminal when four years of behavior provides evidence. The opposite is also true for exemplary behavior or those who turned their lives around for whatever reason. I wrote many letters of recommendation for former students going into the military including the Academies and even Intelligence.
In 1974 a big change came. A new law was passed and from then forward no discipline records could be carried over from year to year. From that point forward a valuable tool for identifying potential criminals was severely weakened.
I post this now because one of the traits held in common for mass shooters is that they showed obvious signs of where they were headed while in high school. So far as I know only one of my former bad asses committed murder later in life when he shot a local police officer in the face. The fact that it has only been one doesn't decrease my anger that it happened at all.
The isane mentality of protecting the guilty is our biggest problem, not the Second Amendment.
I have to tell you, I agree 100%.
You mean all of that bad stuff I did isn’t really on my permanent record?
Whew!
Nowadays, maintaining a permanent record is performed by Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Let’s not empower liberal school administrations with the power to red-flag their cultural enemies for life.
I tell you, I disagree 100%. Sure there are juvenile badasses and those that don’t take well to disipline. But, as long as they don’t break the law as determined by a court, I strongly advise against the pre-crime approach as a means of depriving someone of their 2A rights.
It could be that the coach himself was beaten to a snot as a kid, a real badass and on a power trip. Those that don’t toe the line to his satisfaction are targeted. Too many in government and positions of authority seem to think that they know best. But if the accused are routinely deprived of liberty without due process, that’s a problem.
The insane mentality of protecting the guilty is our biggest problem, not the Second Amendment.
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Absolutely true. Until our judicial system is forced by the rule of law to hand down severe sentences for felony convictions, including the death penalty, law-abiding citizens will continue to suffer horrendous consequences.
And no time off for good behaviour. I like the French syste wherein if you behave yourself, that day counts as time served - if not, you stay in longer.
Exoneration for life?
The present and on going rat over haul of the criminal justice system that reaches down into the school system today is a road map in protecting those unruly young criminals until adulthood where they become a real threat to society and an asset to the liberal lefts war against America and its foundations. We saw it in parkland, Obama holder social justice program they knew about this guy, school administrators were told to leave it alone or risk federal funding doesn’t follow our plan. Now students can comitt crimes on school grounds including assaulting teachers with no repercussions. This is one more thing they want for America in the name of a racist criminal justice system that needs to be changed
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