School Security Hypocrisy!!

[UncleWilley]

Before 9/11 the vast majority of government installations had little or no security. Today virtually all government installations are protected by armed guards and you can’t enter without passing through intense security checks. Prior to 9/11 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Arlington Cemetery were open to the public. Based on personal experience, I know that if you visit these installations today, you’ll encounter armed guards, your id is checked, your vehicle is searched and swabbed for bomb residue. As aircraft are now considered possible weapons of mass destruction, airports are nearly armed camps. WE SPEND MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PROTECTING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS and WORKERS, AIRPORTS ETC. SO WHY IS IT SO RIDICULOUS TO SUGGEST ARMED SECURITY IN OUR SCHOOLS?

The added hypocrisy is that a large number of inner city schools already have armed security!!! My brother teaches in the Buffalo NY school system where they even have undercover police due the frequency of violent crime in the schools. The police break up fights etc. many times per week. The frequency of student on teacher violence is also very serious!!! I have read that the NYC schools also have police presence!! To the best of my knowledge ALL mass killings in schools have been in suburban or rural schools NOT inner cities where there is already a police presence!! So, suburban/rural schools are labeled "gun free zone", easy targets for the mentally disturbed on someday likely terrorists! The NRA has been ridiculed by suggesting increased security that is already present in many/most inner city schools. Go figure!! If this isn't more liberal hypocrisy I don't know what is!!!

 

[Captain K-man]

Good post, but heavy security at Federal installations started after the Oklahoma bombing.

 

[mappow]

Train and arm qualified staff at schools. Possibly, and I mean possilby, subsidize training through federal funding. Anyone else got common sense?

 

[UncleWilley]

Good post, but heavy security at Federal installations started after the Oklahoma bombing.

Yes, some did but I lived in Bethesda MD when 911 hit. Up to that point, NIH, NBS/NIST and other non-defense/secured installations where my wife and friends worked were wide open. After 911 it all changed. I couldn't believe it when we went to a funeral at Arlington Cemetery and we had to exit our van while it was searched, IDs checked and steering wheel swabbed for residual. National Institutes of Health was a wide open campus atmosphere. Now it is surrounded by a strong high fence. You can not enter the perimeter unless you work there or have an appointment. You and your vehicle are checked to get through the first perimeter gate and again to enter the parking garage. The entire area changed virtually overnight! We almost lost a friend in the Pentagon attack. Fortunately he was scheduled to come in late due to some project. People near his office died.

 

[dcselby1]

I've read recently that 20,000 plus schools out of the 100,000 or so in the U.S.have some type of armed security. Either police, off duty police or security guards. The argument that they can't afford this is absurd. Almost a TRILLION dollars a year on education? They need to get a handle on the retirement and benefits and actually spend some money on the CHILDREN!

 

[tricolordad]

It's ridiculous for us to request it because we aren't as important as Barrack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein (hope nobody mated with that cow, yuck!)...or any other anti-freedom butthole.

 

[tricolordad]

I've read recently that 20,000 plus schools out of the 100,000 or so in the U.S.have some type of armed security. Either police, off duty police or security guards. The argument that they can't afford this is absurd. Almost a TRILLION dollars a year on education? They need to get a handle on the retirement and benefits and actually spend some money on the CHILDREN!

Absolutely! My dad made over $120k a year (for 6 months work) and sat out a 42 year career swearing at kids (not just his own) and stealing from the school. He now makes about 1/4 that in retirement. While the school faces closure, he is on a permanent vacation. He always complained about the pay. Last summer he left his tax statement on top the mail pile and I went to look for my student loan mail and grabbed the wrong envelope. Wtf, my little brother is living on welfare and he won't help him...

They can afford to coddle these selfish union bastards but can't at least protect the kids....

 

[dogshawred]

Common Sense to ME

Common Sense should have been used long before now in allowing the citizens to exercise their rights as Vermont has always done.
Common Sense today would be to remove restrictions to eliminate gun free zones so citizens can protect themselves without fear from the law.
Common Sense would tells that our future is our children and that we are wasting money NOT protecting them.
A great number of people can not grasp the concept of Common Sense, a little like being clueless.

 

[Warrior1256]

I total agree with all of the above. Those with the loudest voices for disarming the rest of us have armed guards and / or CC permits themselves!.