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Bailey said, 6 months ago
DANGER
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Truth told here
lonecat said, 6 months ago
How did we get to the point where people think we need to arm teachers or have armed guards in every school? Something went very wrong. Personally, I think we have too little sense of community, of shared values and efforts. The name calling that goes on here doesn’t help.
Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
The crazy probably would have not entered a school that could protect itself. We have a chance to find out now but liberals don’t want to give people a chance to protect themselves from loonies. They prefer mass murders of unprotected citizens so they can draw pictures like this.
Bailey said, 6 months ago
No school should HAVE to “protect itself”… get it?
No children, or their teachers, should EVER face something this twisted, and awful… ever!
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You state:
“The crazy probably would have not entered a school that could protect itself.”…
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Are YOU getting any counseling? On any drugs? Own any guns? Surplus ammunition?
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Just asking.
Gypsy8 said, 6 months ago
This notion that armed teachers can protect the children from loonies has to be about the biggest harebrained scheme ever advanced by the NRA and its supporters. Although it would be good for gun sales.
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Imagine a true loonie intent on gunning down children in a classroom going up against teacher. The loonie is armed to the teeth, has a plan, and is a psychopath. The teacher has a locked gun, has to find the key, unlock the weapon, load the gun and go up against a crazy who, knowing she has a gun, will shoot her first. He is a psychopath; she is a caring purpose who has to morph from teaching “See Dick and Jane run”, to being a killer. It ain’t going to happen.
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An armed guard in every school or classroom is similarly fraught with limitations.
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Banning assault weapons and high capacity clips will help. In the case of Sandy Hook, it would have prevented or reduced the killings.
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Lonecat is on the right track above.
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Alternatively, a nation that institutionalizes mass killings of innocent people through Shock and Awe or presidential authorized drone strikes, may have to tolerate the odd desensitized wing-nut from their population thinking it is okay to kill the innocent.
Colonel Claus
said, 6 months ago
@Bailey
“No school should HAVE to “protect itself”… get it?
No children, or their teachers, should EVER face something this twisted, and awful… ever!”
I agree… But then that is not reality. There are warped minds out there who want to hurt people. Many of those minds are very coherent and calculating down to the last detail.
ansonia
said, 6 months ago
Let’s continue to blame the NRA for the uncontrollable actions of mentally ill people. It doesn’t do a thing except make us feel like we have an enemy that we can control.
Adam Sperry said, 6 months ago
@Gypsy8
Yes
Adam Sperry said, 6 months ago
@ansonia
the NRA want to continue to make sure that every mentally ill person or terrorist in the US can but a big fat gun. I think that is a real problem that can be changed to not be a problem.
Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
@Bailey
Of course, no school SHOULD have to protect itself. But there are crazies out there that little kids need protected from. No, I don’t need counseling, not on any drugs and if you want to know if I can protect myself and property come to my front door screaming like you do here.
Bruce4671 said, 6 months ago
@lonecat
Yes, name calling. Very “adult” isn’t it. But when you have no salient point to make and no facts to bolster it, one must result to insult and hyperbole.
And I must admit that it is sometime entertaining to “poke the cat” in the cage.
But here is something to chew on. If we have something of value, do we not go to what ever lengths it takes, do whatever is necessary to protect that item?
Yes, it is a conundrum. How did we arrive at this point where we would think that it is necessary to arm a teacher? Perhaps we should really study that thought and answer that question for I believe therein we will find the solution.
Meanwhile, it seems even Michael Moore understand. He recently stated: “We’ve got over a quarter-billion guns in people’s homes. And they’re mostly in the suburbs and rural areas where there is virtually no crime and no murder.” And asked: “So why is that?”
As a temporary fix, the idea that we protect schools with the possibility that a criminal/psychopath would find armed resistance were he/she determined to attack children in a school is not so far fetched. The means to do so is already within our reach and the cost is not too dear to be considered.
Many school systems already have school resource officers. Start there.
Bailey said, 6 months ago
@Ms. Ima
… and I can protect myself, too! Scared now?
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You didn’t answer my question about guns and surplus ammunition, did you?
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FWIW… I didn’t “scream” at you, I accentuated. Which ones of us are deemed “crazy” may not be shown except by time.
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I have no interest — whatsoever — in finding your property or your front door… but come to mine? Then we’ll have an exchange you’ll be likely to regret.
mickey1339
said, 6 months ago
It is so convenient to blame someone else when the responsibility is ours. We failed to keep the mental health system viable. We support the violent culture that fosters these deranged people. Our media glorifies violence and the principals involved. We as a society ignore these problems until we have some heinous crime like the Newtown shooting and then we cry for more laws and rage indignantly while pointing fingers at everyone else. We should be looking in a mirror and focusing on the important priorities. Laws and speeches are free, real action takes commitment.
Bailey said, 6 months ago
@mickey1339
I agree. Very well stated.
Zuhlamon said, 6 months ago
Perhaps the wing-nuts would be happier if we converted some of our surplus prisons into week-long concentration schools. see, then we could bring in the kids via AMRAAM Rhino convoys. They’d learn so much behind gray masonry walls topped with razor-wire and gun towers of reflective glass, patrolled by hand-picked members of the American Taliban, who are armed with automatic weapons and military working dogs.
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Irony is they used to call them ‘Normal’ schools.