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NRA: School Security Only Possible With Armed Good Guys

rightsworstnightmare Wrote: Dec 21, 2012 12:48 PM
Thats just school, what about field trips? School buses filled with kids, gonna need a guard there too, several sporting games going on, plenty of transportion need guards. What about the gymnasiums where the games are? Or the fields? Whose going to watch those? Overtime is going to start kicking in too. The NRA is ridiculous
spartacus3344 Wrote: Dec 21, 2012 1:11 PM
I agree, arm them, train them, we're good to go.
Jay Wye Wrote: Dec 21, 2012 1:01 PM
no,he's right about police.
We don't have enough for present tasks,and to realistically cover every school and every school entrance is UNWORKABLE,UNAFFORDABLE.

OTOH,allowing armed school employees costs nothing,is practical and works.
they're right where they need to be,in the classrooms with the children,,the entire time school is open.
spartacus3344 Wrote: Dec 21, 2012 12:52 PM
So what's your proposal?

Do nothing? Lunatics with guns show up and what? The people watching over our children at school just use harsh language? Threaten them with detention?

You're the one that's ridiculous. Why do hate protecting children?

During their first press conference since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last week in Newtown, Conn. leaders from the National Rifle Association offered the country a National School Shield Safety Program as an immediate way to protect children from violent killers during a press conference today in Washington D.C.

“While some have tried to exploit the tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectfully silent,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said. “Nobody has addressed the most important pressing and immediate question...How do we protect our children today?”

LaPierre discussed in detail an...

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