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Originally posted by SweetChild
Absolutely NOT! Schools are to educate! How about some serious control laws and better mental health care? How about banning semi automatic weapons? How about making guns hard to get?
Originally posted by Mr Tranny
If someone is an ex military, ex cop, competition shooter, seasoned hunter, or the like. If someone that is fully comfortable with carrying a gun during their normal duties. And if they are screened and shown to be mentally sound. Then they should be allowed to carry while on school.
That applies to all adult employees on school grounds. Principle, VP, teachers, janitorial staff, and ground keepers.
Janitorial staff would be best suited for the situation. They are not preoccupied taking care of students most of the day. If they see something suspicious, then they have enough flexibility to investigate, and keep watch on a developing situation.
edit on 14-12-2012 by Mr Tranny because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AwakeinNM
Originally posted by Mr Tranny
If someone is an ex military, ex cop, competition shooter, seasoned hunter, or the like. If someone that is fully comfortable with carrying a gun during their normal duties. And if they are screened and shown to be mentally sound. Then they should be allowed to carry while on school.
That applies to all adult employees on school grounds. Principle, VP, teachers, janitorial staff, and ground keepers.
Janitorial staff would be best suited for the situation. They are not preoccupied taking care of students most of the day. If they see something suspicious, then they have enough flexibility to investigate, and keep watch on a developing situation.
edit on 14-12-2012 by Mr Tranny because: (no reason given)
Janitorial staff would be good, but usually there is only one or two in an elementary school. Well, at least there was when I was in school. Now that I think about it, I'm sure there are probably 10 or 15 nowadays in public schools, being government institutions and all. Probably 3 levels of custodial management in every school.
Originally posted by Slade88green
Should America train and arm teachers so they can better defend our children from crimes such as today's school shooting? School shootings are not just an American problem. Many countries suffer from school violence. Some have adopted policies to stop that violence. Israel in the 1970's started arming teachers aids with semi-auto firearms. School violence is non existent in Israel. Thailand adopted this policy in 2004. School violence has dropped drastically in Thailand. Germany is considering adopting the policy as well to quell violence at their schools.
Something must be done to protect our children. Those that would say make guns illegal...criminals don't obey the laws. I vote yes to training and arming teachers.
The reality is simple: every country struggles with madmen and ideologues with guns, and every country—Canada, Norway, Britain—has had a gun massacre once, or twice. Then people act to stop them, and they do—as over the past few years has happened in Australia. Only in America are gun massacres of this kind routine, expectable, and certain to continue.
Make sure that guns designed for no reason save to kill people are freely available to anyone who wants one—and that is, and remains, the essential American condition—and then be shocked when children are killed.
How does one argue with someone convinced that the routine massacre of our children is the price we must pay for our freedom to have guns, or rather to have guns that make us feel free? You can only shake your head and maybe cry a little.
Originally posted by bekod
reply to post by SweetChild
name one good way of getting rid of all guns, not just privately owned ones, but of the police and mil and every nation. For as long as they are here , there are them... that will use them and get them for all the wrong reasons.
Originally posted by Slade88green
reply to post by SweetChild
Your gun was stolen and used in a crime, I sentence you to 10 years in prison, I know your the victim of a crime that you couldn't have stopped, but that doesn't matter.
yeah, there is a solution.
edit on 15-12-2012 by Slade88green because: spelling error
Originally posted by Slade88green