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Newsflash it's not the federal government's responsible to protect schools. That what you have LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR.
Nobody says the federal government IS responsible atthistime.
But they can always take on the responsibility if it made sense to do so, and our nation thought it was in our best interest.
I think having a single U.S. military training center prepare guards to protect schools makes more sense than having guards come from all sorts of varied backgrounds.
Kids would respect these guards if they knew they weren't just some local Joe Shmoe, who by day wanders around the school, and by night, hits the local bars.
The main thing is to create a deterrent which would make kids afraid to enter a school with weapons in the first place. The U.S. Military is a powerful deterrent.
The reason I suggest the U.S. military is because people all around the country are saying something needs to be done to protect all public schools, but nothing ever gets done. The nation talks about it for a few months. And then it becomes yesterdays news (Columbine, etc.) until it happens again a few years later.
Making it a federal responsibility will assure that ALL public schools will get protection right away.
It would keep the protection at the highest level. Who could provide better training than our military?
The soldiers don't need to make this a full time job. They could work as a school security guard for maybe one month a year, and rotate another soldier into the position at the end of each month. Use more guards at larger schools, less at smaller ones.
That way soldiers would spend the vast majority of their time doing what they do now, and only spend a small amount of time working at public schools.
We are already paying hundreds of thousands of people to be in the U.S. military. So why not put them to better use here at home when they are not overseas fighting? What better use than protecting our nation's children?
Like the principal, vice principal, and a few selected techers. Arm them and send them for training. There free security, problem solved for EVERY school.
Like the principal, vice principal, and a few selected techers. Arm them and send them for training. There free security, problem solved for EVERY school.
Nobody says the federal government IS responsible atthistime.
But they can always take on the responsibility if it made sense to do so, and our nation thought it was in our best interest.
I think having a single U.S. military training center prepare guards to protect schools makes more sense than having guards come from all sorts of varied backgrounds.
Kids would respect these guards if they knew they weren't just some local Joe Shmoe, who by day wanders around the school, and by night, hits the local bars.
The main thing is to create a deterrent which would make kids afraid to enter a school with weapons in the first place. The U.S. Military is a powerful deterrent.
The reason I suggest the U.S. military is because people all around the country are saying something needs to be done to protect all public schools, but nothing ever gets done. The nation talks about it for a few months. And then it becomes yesterdays news (Columbine, etc.) until it happens again a few years later.
Making it a federal responsibility will assure that ALL public schools will get protection right away.
It would keep the protection at the highest level. Who could provide better training than our military?
The soldiers don't need to make this a full time job. They could work as a school security guard for maybe one month a year, and rotate another soldier into the position at the end of each month. Use more guards at larger schools, less at smaller ones.
That way soldiers would spend the vast majority of their time doing what they do now, and only spend a small amount of time working at public schools.
We are already paying hundreds of thousands of people to be in the U.S. military. So why not put them to better use here at home when they are not overseas fighting? What better use than protecting our nation's children?
What does motivation have to do with it when the result is the same?
Terrorism is a crime...and at the same time all crimes are terrorism... if it incites terror into people it is, under its own definition, "Terrorism" and what may not bother you might have major effects on someone living on the other side of the country it always hit you harder when it's closer to where you live...
Like the principal, vice principal, and a few selected techers. Arm them and send them for training. There free security, problem solved for EVERY school.
c(= "u know I'm right"
You have to pay for the weapons and training and by adding to their duties or asking them/telling them they have to put themselves in harms way as opposed to making it a conscious decision I am sure hazard pay will be required as well. That or a raise. Don't forget about getting it approved by the teacher's unions as well as the parents, school board etc.
Ok so not technically "Free" per say but its better and cheaper than the alternatives... well i guess except of course for doing nothing and never learning for others horrible actions.
What does motivation have to do with it when the result is the same?
Motivation has everything to do with it. But I can see why you can't look past only one element in a picture that entails more than one. Its about being able to deal with more than one.
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