Dukeboy01 on December 21, 2012 at 2:30 PM

Remove #4 and I am with you.

1. Allow school personnell who volunteer to do so the right to bring personally own firearms to campus. They will form the school’s “Rapid Response Team.” The key word is that they must be volunteers. Some idiot legistator in VA has apparently proposed a bill requiring teachers to be armed. That’s just stupid. People need to reflect on the responsibility of protecting the kids and choose to do it for themselves.

2. Have the members of the “Rapid Response Team” apply for concealed carry permits in the states where permits are allowed. This will get them an extra criminal background check and require them to have a basic understanding of firearms and the laws governing their use in their state. The school district could reimburse the volunteers after the course was completed for the cost of the license fees.

3. Have them complete 40 hours of training with local law enforcement that covers the use of their firearms, basic building search and response to active shooters techniques, some minimum combat first aid skills, etc. You’re not going to turn them into a SWAT team, but you want to give them some training that might help them survive. (What is cover vs. concealment, for example.)

4. Install a locker in these teachers’ classrooms for them to secure their firearms in each morning when they arrive for the day. Give them each a bullet proof vest with a carrier in some bright Day- glo color that will identify them to each other as well as responding law enforcement officers that they keep in the locker along with First Aid supplies.

5. Have them qualify with their weapons twice a year. Make the qualification course harder than the so- easy- a- blind- person- can- pass- it courses that are used to qualify for a CCDW permit.

Time after time with these mass shootings we see that the suspect either surrenders or kills himself almost immediately after he is confronted by an armed defender. The sooner that someone is able to engage one of these lunatics, the sooner the killing stops.

These people are not capable of reason.
juliesa on December 21, 2012 at 12:11 PM

I thought the same thing… Looking at Huffpuff AND HotGas

The comments here are just as irrational as those front he leftist. Each extreme is a dark hole.

I agree it’s a waste of money, but I can understand their strategy. First, you’ll draw more support for armed police than for armed teachers, et al, as more people will trust, and be more comfortable with, the former than the latter. That makes it more achievable.

Second, it will achieve the objective as well or better than anything else. It can be more swiftly implemented to the satisfaction of the most people and can evolve more readily to school employees when the ruckus over the issue settles down.

Third, it increases the likelihood of forestalling other, useless feel good measures and it also removes the most emotionally animating and gun-grabbing instigating of the gun-free zones.

Fourth, the money spent on it will be only a small fraction of the policies put into place otherwise.

I don’t especially care for it, but it’s a good proposal. I’d be inclined to add to it by suggesting we work over time to establish police stations and substations next to schools and hard wire alarms right from the school to the police station and bypass the delays inherent with going through 911 dispatchers.

Here’s Emilie Parker with her family before she was killed.

Who’s this girl with Obama?

Mr. Parker approaches the podium laughing,, asks, “Do I read from the card?”

WTH?!

Akzed on December 21, 2012 at 12:48 PM

wow, same dress o___O that is weird

Don’t need police really, just armed security guards and teachers willing to take the armed security guard training.

Rebar on December 21, 2012 at 11:46 AM

I think having police in every school is total waste of money. There are 10′s of thousands of schools, and the incidence rate of these horrendous crimes is very very low. I would be more likely to support training the principal, and volunteer teachers to have fire arm training. And have fire arms at the ready with bio-metric security safes.

Dasher on December 21, 2012 at 12:34 PM

this is another good idea too. if not a police officer then SOMEONE working at every school should have a gun. (preferably at least two people.)

I have another solution. Get rid of public schools. Private schools will hire adequate security.

legalimmigrant on December 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM

This.

There’s no constitutional reason for the government to be involved in education, and the results speak for themselves. Privatize the whole damn system.

I have another solution. Get rid of public schools. Private schools will hire adequate security.

legalimmigrant on December 21, 2012 at 1:07 PM

Exactly. Private schools having armed security for protection of students/faculty while public schools probably won’t. Where do you think parents would want their kids to go? The school that takes safety seriously, or the “gun-free zones” that get shot up? Then any GOP worth anything could bring up school vouchers and watch the Dems squirm.

It’d also be nice to see the sensible states that can’t afford this kind of window dressing to follow Kansas’s lead and pass a law allowing teachers with a CHL to carry at school. It’s a neater and more realistic solution than posting cops everywhere.

CorporatePiggy on December 21, 2012 at 12:59 PM

That strikes me as a valid solution for more rural areas, where people are less likely to hate and fear guns in such a knee-jerk fashion. Also, for a long time, a lot of wealthier towns have resisted police presence at the schools because it would imply that the town has a crime or gang problem, and then property values would decline.

“We don’t need cops or metal detectors at our schools in River City. That’s only for troubled areas like Gary, Indiana.”