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I tend to respond to stupidity, such as putting guns into schools, with sarcasm, sorry.
Seems your dear leader disagrees with you....you should be ashamed of yourself for not following him and his word.......
Quote:
According to guidelines released by the White House in advance of Obama's
speech Wednesday, schools that want to have armed guards will be supported in
that pursuit, but schools won't be pushed to staff them. The plan calls for the
creation of 1,000 new "school resource officers," which the White House
describes as "specially trained police officers that work in schools," and
mental health professionals to "help prevent school crime and student-on-student
violence."
The White House says it will "provide incentives" for police departments to
train and hire these special officers. The Department of Justice will tweak the
COPS Hiring Grants, which is already used by police departments to recruit new
talent, to incentivize police departments to employ more school-specific
officers.
Link is from the huffpo...so you cannot use the standard "look it's a fox new link" lol...
As the schools have accepted responsibility for the physical safety of the children I would think, after Sandy Hook, it would make sense to arm the guards and the teachers. It is unlikely a stern word would stop a person set on shooting up a school. I think all places that take the responsibility for the occupant’s safety would be well advised to have armed people around to effectively protect the rest.
The arguments about firearms accidents are irrelevant to the basic responsibility the schools have accepted to protect the students.
I think the people opposed to arming teachers are operating on the idea that if guns are banned then there will no longer be any threat of violence. They are deluding themselves and trying to force the rest of us to share that delusion.
Basically, if they received training, then fine.
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