NRA calls for armed police officers in every school

[sirloot]

I think the Real solution is getting rid of public schools. I get taxed for them along side everything else and I have no kids attending ..Communism anyone ? Have the parents take a better role in the childs edu .. if you #1 cant afford to have them or #2 dont have time to spend with ... DONT HAVE em !

[GoVegan]

Train and arm the administrators. I taught in K12 for the last 16 years of my life. Some of these schools are real hell holes.

Yes, that's a great idea. I cant read the news for one day without seeing an article about a teacher molesting a student or being involved in some kind of scandal. I realize that 99% of the teachers out there are great people but I am concerned about the 1%. Schools should be about using you brains to solve problems. I would switch my kids school in 2 seconds if they started arming teachers or administrators.

[wa3zrm]

The schools here cant even afford music or PE teachers. How are they going to pay for armed guards?

Train and arm the administrators. I taught in K12 for the last 16 years of my life. Some of these schools are real hell holes.

[GoVegan]

The schools here cant even afford music or PE teachers. How are they going to pay for armed guards? Also, I have known security guards that are triggy happy mental cases. I wouldn't want them anywhere near my kids school with a gun. I am not anti gun but I am for an all out ban on semi automatic weapons. You can still kill someone with a bolt action rifle or a revolver. A ban would make it more difficult and time consuming to kill large amounts of people.

[Joe234]

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[lxskllr]

No. There is no "future catastrophe". Everybody's tripping over themselves trying to look like they're doing something, and what'll happen is everybody's rights will be reduced yet again, and the original "problem" will remain. I say "problem" because this crap never happens. It just gets reported on the news so much, and for so long it seems like it does. Three times as many people died on our highways on Dec 15 than they did in that school. What are we gonna do about that?

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[Crow]

Guns and police officers in all American schools are what's needed to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings," the National Rifle Association declared Friday, taking a no-retreat stance in the face of growing calls for gun control after the Connecticut shootings that claimed the lives of 26 children and school staff.

WASHINGTON —

Guns and police officers in all American schools are what's needed to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings," the National Rifle Association declared Friday, taking a no-retreat stance in the face of growing calls for gun control after the Connecticut shootings that claimed the lives of 26 children and school staff.

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," said Wayne LaPierre, the group's chief executive officer.

Some members of Congress who had long scoffed at gun-control proposals have begun to suggest some concessions could be made, and a fierce debate over legislation seems likely next month. President Barack Obama has demanded "real action, right now."

The nation's largest gun-rights lobby broke its weeklong silence on the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School with a defiant presentation. The event was billed as a news conference, but NRA leaders took no questions. Twice, they were interrupted by banner-waving protesters, who were removed by security.

Some had predicted that after the slaughter of a score of elementary-school children by a man using a semi-automatic rifle, the group might soften its stance, at least slightly. Instead, LaPierre delivered a 25-minute tirade against the notion that another gun law would stop killings in a culture where children are exposed daily to violence in video games, movies and music videos. He argued that guns are the solution, not the problem.

"Before Congress reconvenes, before we engage in any lengthy debate over legislation, regulation or anything else; as soon as our kids return to school after the holiday break, we need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work," LaPierre said. "And by that I mean armed security."

He said Congress should immediately appropriate funds to post an armed police officer in every school. Meanwhile, he said the NRA would develop a school emergency response program that would include volunteers from the group's 4.3 million members to help guard children.

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