Don’t focus on or even think about controlling access to certain high powered guns. Instead we need to put an armed policemen in every. single. school. in the US.
That’s their serious answer. An armed guard in every single school.
It’s boggling.
We had an armed policeman in my high school in the '90s, and that was pre-Columbine. I don’t see why it’s necessarily a bad idea.
I don’t think it’s the only thing we should do, but it couldn’t hurt.
Many inner city schools have have had professional security for over 15 years. It’s time that the suburb schools do the same.
We aren’t in 1920’s Kansas anymore. There’s too many bat shit crazy people out there. There were clear signs that Aurora shooter was nuts. His college even kicked him out but no one warned the cops about him. This school shooter’s mom was scared of him. Worried sick. Gave up her job because he couldn’t be left alone at home. Did she get him into a mental hospital? Nope.
define: “high-powered gun.”
Here’s an article referencing the press conference.
Expensive idea, but not necessarily a terrible one. The problem is that we can’t put an armed policeman in every place that might attract a crazy person - in every movie theater, for example. At best, this is a partial solution - we still need gun control, and we still need better access to mental health care.
Like I said in the other thread; I don’t have a problem with armed (professional) guards at schools.
But that does fuck all to stop guns from getting into the hands of crazy people.
So much for their meaningful contributions towards gun control like they said they were going to do.
I think mental health care providers and policemen need to start asking a simple question. " Do you have guns in your home" or “Does this person have access to guns” This might help some.
Hell, we can’t even get the states to pay teachers or get school supplies. How are they proposing to pay for that?
Our middle schools and high schools already have armed policemen in them. It’s a rural area and there isn’t much crime.
Morons. This is not a solution. Our school district is cutting necessary programs right now due to lack of funding, and now they’re supposed to pay for armed security?
This is a giant red herring to get us all to talk about the NRA and their insane, unworkable idea instead of talking about actual viable legislative solutions.
Although the fact that they waited until the Friday before Christmas to announce this makes me think that they know damned well how insane they sound and are trying to bury it without much fanfare, so they can tell people “see, we made a statement” and end their increasingly guilty-seeming silence, while reducing the amount of blowback they’re going to get from it. Again: Morons.
Pretty amazing stuff. A press conference without questions being allowed. The solution to guns is more guns. But a cop in every school really isn’t a bad idea, if the community can afford to do it. It makes more sense to me than asking teachers to prepare to be Dirty Harry. Some schools can afford to do this, some can’t. It isn’t as good an idea as banning large magazines or rapid-fire weaponry, but he could have said something much dumber.
Like most people, I’ve been thinking over this idea in the last week. The thing is, we have armed guards in so many different places, why not schools? If we have armed guards protecting our money in banks, why don’t we value our kids at least that much?
I think it’s a better idea than arming every Tom, Dick, and Mary in the country on the off chance that one person in 200,000 might be in a postion one day to stop a nutjob.
ETA - I clearly pulled 200,000 out of my ass, I admit I have no idea what the true number would be.
Gonna need one ninja motherfuckin’ armed policeman to police every hall and every room in the school at the same time.
That said, it’s a great idea… at least until would-be school shooters figure out that “shoot school cop” needs to go at the top of their massacre to-do list.
no, they said “meaningful contributions towards making sure something like this never happens again.” while i don’t know one way or the other if their proposal would accomplish that, none of the gun control measures which have been mooted so far by Congress would stop this from happening again either.
Anyone see what Fox is saying?
It just bothers me that the answers on that side are so reactionary. They want to react when gunshots are first fired but have no interest in being proactive. Haven’t any of these folks ever been in business before?
So, lets get all those guns registered and charge their owners with a registration fee to cover all of these salaries and the expenses associated with the armed guards keeping up their skill sets.
A friend of mine is a high-school guidance counselor. She asked me to speak at a career day last month. Coming in the front door, I encountered a rent-a-cop manning a walk-through metal detector.
The person in front of me kept setting off the detector, stepping back through, and checking his pockets. I was a little grouchy, so I walked around the detector and past the “guard”. I was never stopped.