While better laws to keep guns away from people with mental disorders is good, I think some in Tennessee have the right idea.

Tennessee Considers Training And Arming Schoolteachers To Protect Against Shootings

Only a trained person with a gun, not dumb new gun laws, will stop a crazed gunman determined to kill our kids. IMHO we should not leave our children and their teachers totally defenseless while being slaughtered.

Thank you for recognizing what has happened here! I believe everyone wanted to give Rubio a chance to deliver true conservative values. Unfortunately, he gets squishier with each passing opportunity. Ed and AP are lost to(new word),moderatism! One’s a journalist and the other a lawyer! So be it!

AlahPundit/HotAir appear to be a Campaign Arm for the Magic Cuban. Rubio is as bad as Jeb/George Bush on his love of Amnesty as well as flexible on every other ‘right’ as long as his prospects will be augmented.

el Vaquero on December 18, 2012 at 8:56 AM

Not quite; Hot Air is really just a reflection of the GOP Zeitgeist and (to throw another German term on you) Weltanschauung, and has been pretty much since the the takeover by Townhall. They’ll probably happily pimp any from the GOPe-approved list of probable GOP prez candidates.

ddrintn on December 18, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Romney’s campaign….’nuff said.
HotAir was even worse than RightScoop with the Romney/Gope love.

MechanicalBill on December 17, 2012 at 8:39 PM

Great post.

Senator (President Wanna-Be) Rubio, nothing in your statement bears any relation whatsoever to the killings in Newtown. Nothing. If anything, it only displays your own ignorance and willingness to jump out front to grab some more spotlight. Dude, the election is in 2016. You can calm down for now. You are not helping yourself, and you’re certainly not helping stamp out mass murder.

The most maddening thing about this entire feeding frenzy — the 24/7 media coverage, the overflowing blog sites, the public statements by everyone from the President to our friends who just feel compelled to offer up meaningless words of tripe on Facebook, just because — is that the very reaction to this event may do as much as any other single factor – to create the breeding ground for the next one.

There are forensic psychiatrists out there speaking but nobody’s listening to them.

Leading the initial stories with sirens, masses of armed men walking around with assault rifles, leading with body counts (as if it’s a contest, which it is, between the wanna be mass killers among us), posting photos and every personal detail possible about the killer, chasing down anyone with anything to say. Even, in the final ridiculous move, having the President of the United States take to the airwaves not once, but twice, solely because of the act of this one deranged individual.

All of it is being watched by the next one. Some quiet, shy, socially awkward kid, who sees themselves as less than a nobody can, in the blink of an eye, be known throughout the world.

Are these guys showing up in their bathrobes and tennis shoes? No, they’re showing up fully decked out in the current-day uniform of the mass killer. All black. Military garb. Armed to the teeth. The very upside down, twisted, vision of a super hero. In this case, a super villain.

And we help them. Encourage them. Feed the beast. By blowing them up beyond all bounds of human proportion. Small yesterday, a giant today, astride the world, your photo plastered on every television screen.

Why does the media (who wants to now be “in charge” of the gun “discussion”) not see that they, themselves, are significant contributors to this phenomenon? Of course. They don’t really care. They only want the ratings that come from being seen to care more than anybody else.

Sorry, but they’ll have to line up behind the politicians.

That is insanity.

Say what you mean and mean what you say. You want a answer to this use conservative principle. More guns and not more gun control is the answer. Their is no amount of regulation or mental health or crap to stop the random murderer. Murders have existed since the dawn and will exist on the sunset of man. The best answer would be everyone taking responsibility. What if say the principle his/her staff or any of the multitude of other teachers were armed?

http://www.kgw.com/news/Clackamas-man-armed-confronts-mall-shooter-183593571.html

http://www.volokh.com/2012/12/14/do-civilians-armed-with-guns-ever-capture-kill-or-otherwise-stop-mass-shooters/#disqus_thread

http://www.saysuncle.com/index.php?s=Mass+murderers+v.+armed+citizens

Only some of them, the ones that exhibit aggression. There are a lot of really peaceful mental patients out there.

alwaysfiredup on December 17, 2012 at 8:03 PM

Hey now, we’re talking about mental patients not mooslums…oh, wait.

Hmmmmm. I’ll be impressed when the first Senator proposes a bill that requires mandatory firearms training for all school principals and assistant principals and a gun safe in every school office. Imagine the result if Dawn Hochsprung had been able to confront Lanza with a Kel-Tec in the hallway that day instead of just her best teacher voice. I’ll start holding my breath now.

cynccook on December 17, 2012 at 7:45 PM

If it’s good enough for pilots, who are responsible for dozens of grumpy passengers while riding in a glorified tube, then it should be good enough for teachers who are responsible for our children.

I should probably know, but what is the e for in GOPe?

Nutstuyu on December 18, 2012 at 10:18 AM

Establishment. But of course that doesn’t exist. Lots of people here have told me so.

Put mental patients in mental hospitals. Problem fixed.

TX-96 on December 17, 2012 at 7:37 PM

But so many of them are in Congress!

Happy Nomad on December 17, 2012 at 7:39 PM

We just need to legalize post-womb abortions.

from the GOPe-approved list of probable GOP prez candidates.

ddrintn on December 18, 2012 at 9:00 AM

I should probably know, but what is the e for in GOPe?