Didn’t think it was a shot, just didn’t know what your definition of older is/was…….or why you even thought it, because I’ve certainly never said on here.
I can’t wait to here someone try and explain this one …lol
Kinda like Obama Care and the way it was presented to the American people?
If not trans, it’s other screwed up
Get the federal government and politics out of our schools the states have let the federal government take them over.
No, just the thought of it is nauseating. You want to pee & hold hands next to them, knock yourself out….DGAS.
I have always thought hiring retired military officers as principals/assistant principals and retired enlisted soldiers as custodial and grounds keeping staff would be a positive step. In this shooting as well as Sandy hook, I think if a trained school employee armed with a rifle had been the first one to confront the shooter instead of an untrained staffer with no weapon, lives would have been saved.
Keep serving mammon and the world will continue to destroy itself. One can never serve two masters. ~ Jesus Christ
I thoroughly believe that. There is a reason why bank robberies are down and school shootings are up. Cowards seek the road of least resistance.
Not arguing that some people have no business owning a gun for any reason and your daughter may very well be one of those folks. And yes, it's true that in many situations having a gun and being unable to pull the trigger is more dangerous than not. OTOH, if I'm instructing teachers to lock down in a room and hide, I'd want as many of those teachers as possible to have a firearm available and be trained to shoot if an active shooter found access to the hiding spot. In that case, the teacher with a gun the attacker doesn't know about has flipped the scenario and has the drop.
I don't think anyone is scared of trannys' but they are not anyone I would want near me in a restroom, however, I would tolerate it to keep them away from my daughter and spouse.
understand the argument......but if you allow 1 teacher to carry, you open it up for all. Also, being trained versus being trained and experienced are two completely different things. You open up a can of worms that wouldn't want to do.
You're not going to find nearly as many retired or former military to do this type of work that would be required.
nobody would even attempt a school shooting if we had these men there. Simple solution.
It has nothing to do with guns why bank robberies are down...dye packs, bait money, security cameras...armed guards at banks are few and far between because they are expensive, and they make the situation more likely to end in violence.
Oh I know DH wasn't being insulting but I hear this line about retired military pulling security at schools and laugh every time I hear it. It's not a serious solution for the reasons you stated but there's also another...for many (overwhelming majority) of us we've spent 20+ years doing crappy jobs in the name of "country and service" and simply don't want to any more. I just tire of hearing this expectation that vets are going to want to just continually sacrifice
Especially when they are in their prime-earning potential years. Military retirement is a nice benefit. But, 50-60% of base pay is not a lot, even at the senior enlisted ranks.
Outside of some especially sweet tax benefits (I'm talking approaching what 100% military disability looks like in some states regarding property tax, free college tuition for kids, etc.), I think you'd have to pay more than is affordable to get a sufficient number of retirees interested.
Look I'm not against extra security but that is going to cost money. Think about it like this: Security Guard (SG) Pay 1 X $50K; 4 (SG) per school (minimum) for rest and rotation; Department of Education estimates 5.6 schools per school district in America. That's an additional $1.12M per school district in America per year. In the state of Ga there are 181 school districts so you're talking about a total of $202M just for additional security yearly. Again not against it but people need to realize what's do able and what's not.
I get it I really do but the additional security idea is just not feasible from a workforce standpoint and financial standpoint. That's why I've been saying for years we've got to take more aggressive measures "left of boom" that balance the necessity to address the issue of school shootings against that of limiting certain individuals ability to possess a firearm.
I believe you can deter & ultimately remove schools as targets for these copy-cat criminals if you simply allow qualified teachers to conceal carry (even give bonuses to encourage it), in addition to the resource officers that are already there.
Hence, a big issue…..as mentioned before, I believe local and state pay about 90% into the school system. The balance is from federal.
Security is less effective if the AS is on a suicide mission which 99% of them are on. At this point you're just hoping the good guys can get the jump on him before he kills too many kids.
Agree no easy answer, no cheap answer, no quick answer...there's going to be some loss of privilege for fire arms or higher tax to address this problem.
Right, but they all still overwhelmingly choose "soft" targets. If it was just suicide, they'd simply off themselves. They're looking to make a statement and/or avenge some claimed injustice, which requires some sort of body count & requires them to have time to accomplish their ghoulish task before being neutralized.
The problem becomes what can legally be done when a mentally disturbed or troubled person owns firearms. What can be done legally when that person who's been diagnosed with schizophrenia has stopped taking their medications? If someone is showing obvious signs of a mental break should anything be done to prevent that person from buying additional firearms? Should free medical care be provided to address mental break? Again not against addition additional security to schools but best case in that situation is "not as many kids die".
