We already have this in Dade County schools. The officers stationed at the schools are sworn officer and have the same training as a street cops, plus more. Been there for years. Resource Officers before that dating back into the 60s. But then, back in the 60s, we had rioting in the schools so they were backed up by regular police as needed.
Thanks. She's doing good this morning. She slept well. A doctor friend stopped by last night and gave her a little medication to settle the anxiety. She fell asleep and we had a couple of stiff drinks while he explained it to me. She had suffered PTSD years ago when this all happened. She's never had any reaction to other incidents around the country but this hit her hard because it was little children, it was less than an hour away, my bus partner lives within a mile or so of the school and her ex-coworker had kids there a few years ago. It brought back a lot of bad memories. Her friends are taking her to do hair, nails and shopping today... That works better than any meds. And I get to foot the bill.
| Link Removed Posted: 15 Dec 2012 03:56 AM PST The atrocity at the Connecticut elementary school will not be the last such horror, nor was it the first or even the worst. Go back to the year 1764, in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The first: during Pontiac’s Rebellion in the wake of the French and Indian War, four “warriors” entered a schoolhouse and slaughtered the headmaster and some ten children. Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . The worst: in 1927, a crazed monster beat his wife to death, then triggered a bombing in an elementary school in Bath, Michigan, killing some 38 kids and several adults.Bath School disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . I’ll repeat what I said in the Wall Street Journal op-ed section and on the Today show in 1999, after the Columbine High School atrocity: if we simply prepared teachers to handle this type of crisis the way we teach them to handle fires and medical emergencies, the death toll would drop dramatically. We don’t hear of mass deaths of children in school fires these days: fire drills have long since been commonplace, led by trained school staff, not to mention sprinkler systems and smoke alarms and strategically placed fire extinguishers that can nip a blaze in the bud while firefighters are en route. In the past, if someone “dropped dead,” people would cry and wring their hands and wail, “When will the ambulance get here?” Today, almost every responsible adult knows CPR; most schools have easily-operated Automatic Electronic Defibrillators readily accessible; and a heart attack victim’s chance of surviving until the paramedics arrive to take over is now far greater. The same principle works for defending against mass murders…it just doesn’t work HERE, because it is politically incorrect to employ it HERE. After the Ma’alot massacre in 1974, Israel instituted a policy in which volunteer school personnel, parents, and grandparents received special training from the civil guard, and were seeded throughout the schools armed with discreetly concealed 9mm semiautomatic pistols. Since that time, there has been no successful mass murder at an Israeli school, and every attempt at such has been quickly shortstopped by the good guys’ gunfire, with minimal casualties among the innocent. Similar programs are in place in Peru and the Phillippines, with similarly successful results. Some people see the logic in the Israeli approach. Dave Workman does, as seen here: Link Removed . Ann Coulter does, as seen here:Newtown School Shootings: Ann Coulter Makes a Case for Concealed-Carry Laws | The Wrap Media . Unfortunately, in this country, logic has been buried under political correctness. Those in power whose ego is invested in brie et Chablis values that include scorn for the peasantry they accuse of “clinging to guns and Bibles” will never see that logic. Children will continue to die in gun-free zones hunting preserves for psychopathic murderers, and the cowardly murderers will continue to surrender or kill themselves as soon as armed good guys show up…far too late. [TABLE="width: 917"] [TR] [TD][h=1]Massad Ayoob[/h] |
Was he carrying the three bombs and he suddenly snapped? Your argument was that if teachers had guns they might suddenly snap and kill kids with the gun they're carrying.
No more than the general population. Quite a bit less actually, since they're accustomed to that kind of stress.
How many kids do you think he would have killed if they'd seen his pecker?
Probably not at all since the two aren't related.
When was it not done?.
Actually that was my point. Your point was that teachers shouldn't be allowed to carry because their proximity to children would make them snap and start shooting kids, as if such an option isn't available to them now and as if there's' some sort of historical precedent for that assumption.
By credentials you mean had the background investigation for the kind of traitors like Aldrich Ames and the Walker family. Background investigations for clearances can be just as fallible as those for teachers.
