It’s WHO’S playing them.

It’s not the guns.

It’s WHO’S using them.

Young teens taking anti-depressants make up over 90% of these school killers. Get these kids off these anti-depressants and the amount of these kinds of shootings will go down. But as it is today, as the amount of prescriptions go up – so do the shootings. These kinds of drugs are being seriously over-prescribed and turning good kids into cold-blooded killers.

MissMagnolia on December 22, 2012 at 9:19 AM

A great link, which I read after I posted. (Really!)

There may be good reasons to spend $5 billion we don’t have on another 100,000 cops, but installing them at schools across the country on the odd chance that a rampage killer might show up someday in the distant future isn’t one of them… Having security guards on campus may well have helped reduce the death toll at Columbine, but a single cop isn’t much of an obstacle to an ambush attack. The new rule for suicidal school shooters will simply be to shoot the cop first. If you want real security, you should have at least two on school grounds, and maybe more.

Or you should use just a fraction of that money to train volunteers from the teaching and administrative staffs.

Schools that need security guards because of the amount of low-level security issues probably already have them. That is a different issue.

School security would be vastly improved if just 5% of teachers and administrators were armed. It would be simple and cost effective. That is exactly why the gun banners hate the idea.

http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/

“Do you dare come on my show and say I am using the slaughter of 20 little six- and seven-year-old children, I’m using that for political purposes, Tim?”

You are. Your show is a political news show. You have called for gun control “using the slaughter of 20 little six- and seven-year-old children.”

Lib-tards are easy to spot. They act impulsively with emotion rather than logic.
If we removed gun deaths related to gang violence and drugs what would the numbers be?

Also, in a report (circa 2006) The United State’s murder rate per capita was still below below most european/developed nations. Finland (12*), Sweden (16), Belgium (17), Australia (18), Portugal (19), Switzerland (20), Italy (21), Denmark (24), Netherlands (25), Luxembourg, (26), France (27), Austria (28), New Zealand (29), Ireland (30), Norway (31), Iceland (33), Germany (35). Spain (37**).

* 32.73 per million
** .781 per million

P.S. The USA actually dropped. In a 2004 report we were 37th on the murder rate by capita list.
Remember too that 3rd world countries are not reliable in their reporting murders and we already know that their rates are above us in the developed nations. War regions also do not score their kills as murders

Lanza lived in an affluent household. His mother had all the money she needed and more. His father insisted on paying more in spousal support than he was required to, far more, including giving her the house. She did not need the government to provide mental health assistance. A mental health clinic on every corner in Newtown would not have prevented what happened. And, while I would like to blame her for being blind to her child’s potential for violence, most parents are and, unfortunately, there is no known test for what Adam Lanza did. No parent, even the most vigilant, could have imagined anyone on earth, much less their own child, was capable of slaughtering school children in a psychotic rampage. Every odd, quirky kid in school does not become a mass murderer.

Authorities are even planning to study Lanza’s DNA to see if they can detect anything that might allow them to speculate about what condition might have caused this blatantly insane act. This is simply not simple. The urge is to believe we can do something. We can do something. We can harden targets where we can. Whatever one might think of the NRA, the saying is largely true, only a good guy with a gun (or a club, a knife, a baseball bat, some weapon capable of being delivered against the shooter) stops these freaks. Lanza apparently shot himself when he heard the sirens coming. The good guys with the guns were coming. They shoot themselves or someone does it for them.

Walking the streets looking for odd looking people who might snap and morph into agents of mass slaughter is simply wishful thinking. And wishes will not stop a determined assassin.

Nor would an assault weapon ban. Connecticut has an assault weapon ban that is comprehensive (Sec. 53-202c Connecticut Code).

And, finally, these things do happen in other countries, whether or not we want to believe it. Evil like this is pervasive throughout the world. And it has a face. We just don’t know which face until after the fact.

Arming the adults in the school, from the teachers with AK47′s,to the Janitors, the Principals, the Medical Staff, to the Food service people, in essence every responsible adult person with firearms! It wouldn’t cost that much, not paying $200 -$300 an hour for Police or armed guards. Just, simply, have every responsible adult armed and trained. Sure, you’d have to pay more for background and psychological checks, not to mention a little more for arms training, and purchasing the arms and ammunition. But, all in all, it’s still less expensive, and a lot more effective than one or even two armed guards. Not to mention, the effect that knowing, or not knowing who may turn that corner and take you out would have on the potential murderers. Think that they wouldn’t choose a much softer target? Think that this wouldn’t almost completely stop any type of potential assault on our children ( no matter how innocent, or not that they may be! Think that this wouldn’t even stop the idiotic school kid violence???) Think again! Statistics prove that in concealed carry states, violent crime drops, almost immediately, upon those laws going into effect.

Simply, if it didn’t work so well in Israel, they would not be doing it!

Now, for the argument about children feeling less safe, well, just look at Israel’s educational system, which is much safer ( ever hear of Israeli teachers afraid to work in inner city school districts, where they have to be paid much more?) I guarantee you that they have much less violence in their schools than we here in our major, inner city schools do!)

If it makes you any happier, Joe does too. They deserve each other to perfection.

Besides, is the money we’d have to spend to bring our nation’s defunct mental health system up to the point where it would make a dent in these incidents any less? I don’t know the answer, and it may not be answerable, but I’ll bet it’s also in the billions.

Socratease on December 21, 2012 at 6:09 PM

Personally, I can see housing the mentally unstable as a more legitimate government function than trying to prevent me from owning weapons with plastic window-dressing (aka, “assault weapons”).

This morning I saw a woman debating John Lott on the issue, and she kept calling them things like “military-style super-killers”.

Mika always looks and is stupid.
What a prop!
Schadenfreude on December 21, 2012

Again…we disagree.
But to each their own…

― Sammy “the Bull” Gravano

Within 50 miles of a city of 500k population or greater, no citizen is permitted to posses any type of firearm. Looking at the recent election exit poling by county maps, it appears that most libtards live with in these areas.

If the libtards think the government is going to protect them, then I suggest that they review the court rulings that state that the police have no, repeat NO!, obligation to protect anyone.

Cops carry guns to protect themselves. The courts have said so. But the politicos don’t want you armed. Why in the world would that be their thinking?