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Originally posted by truly
I am opposed to the idea of putting armed guards at the entry points of all public schools. The astronomical cost is reason number one. If our schools have it in their budget to add one or two full time employees to the budget then lets hire some more teachers.
#2, it won't really make schools any safer IMHO. Maybe inside the school building might be safer, but what about kids that go outside for recess or gym class? Every day at the private Christian school across the street, kids go out for 15 minute recess, and when it is time to go back in they line up in a perfect row along the sidewalk. Obviously very vulnerable to any nut with a gun. Both during the lineup and during playtime. The coward nutjob with a gun will always be able to find a moment of vulnerability, no amount of armed guards can stop a gunman who is willing to die in the act.
#3, to the extent that it might deter some killings at public schools, it is likely to just transfer it to other venues where people gather in mass. Parades, water parks, fairs, shopping malls, churches, etc. If a coward nut job gun man is looking to kill a bunch of people he will find a crowd somewhere. Even UKC coon hunts. Thank goodness UKC has a policy of no firearms at their events.
THe problem with expecting a gun to be of any help in protecting your safety is that you would literally need to be "at the ready" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the rest of your life. I don't disagree with our 2nd amendment right to bear arms. But I do disagree that having those arms actually makes us any safer.
Doug, how many of your coworkers/teachers do you think are qualified and would want to carry a gun in a school setting? If your gun is in a safe, and you are on lunchbreak, playground monitoring, or doing some other duty away from it how much time would it take to get to it? If your school has a large outdoor playground area, and a gun man came near it with a .223 Bushmaster AR15 with several 100 round magazines, and had modified it into essentially an automatic [using a bumpstock and rubber band], how many kids would he have killed before you could take him out with a 9mm handgun with a 9 bullet clip? The small town grade school that I went to all 120 kids took recess at the same time. I would say a gun man could have taken out 20-60 before return fire would have stopped him.
As far as cost,what liberal ever cared about cost???2, You make the gun availible to the teachers,they only carry if they want and pass an emergency and safety test. The psycos wouldn't know which schools are packin and which are not.3 you just proved that there could be a million different scenerios that psycos could attack and haveing guns in the teachers hands is the ONLY way to insure immediate counter measure.
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All my life I wanted to be somebody, now I realize I should have been more specific. I carry a gun because I am too young to die and too old to take an asswhoopin.
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