Armed Guards at elementary schools have been requested by the Newtown Board of Education in the wake of the horrific shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary school.
NBC Connecticut confirmed that the board asked for "one additional full-time Newtown police at each of the elementary schools in next year's budget." Is there evidence that such a step would be effective in preventing another shooting? If the results of the Atlanta School shooting this week is any indication, the answer is yes, as an off duty Atlanta police officer working as a guard at the school was able to apprehend the suspect "within minutes," as reported by TavernKeepers.
The NRA will repeat their strategy at a Senate hearing on Wednesday: armed guards in schools, among other proposals, such as "strengthen measures aimed at keeping powerful weapons away from the mentally ill."
The Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting was quickly exploited by anti-Second Amendment activists, who used the opportunity to justify gun control. A revealing poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International found that 52% of Americans believe that "elected officials are exploiting the tragedy for political reasons," while 41% believe that elected officials are "acting responsibly." Oftentimes, tragedies such as the Sandy Hook shooting are used as a tool to promote a gun control agenda. But is gun-control effective?
The Department of Justice released a report regarding the effectiveness of the since-expired 1994 "assault weapons" ban. The report concluded that "the ban has failed to reduce the average number of victims per gun murder incident or multiple gunshot wound victims." Perhaps instead of looking to the weapon, America would be better off if they could focus on the criminals. Additionally, it would make sense if the focus was not on gun alone, but on violent crime in general. There are undeniable common threads that indicate who would be more likely to commit violent crime. Prior criminal record, mental health history, gang-related activity, socio-economic status, age, gender, and location (i.e. urban areas) are all indicators that seemingly go ignored by many in the mainstream media. Expecting different results from another so-called "assault weapons" ban is ridiculous, and only punishes law-abiding citizens.
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BERETTA: GOT SAFE?
Clark, so true: "“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams
Personal Liberty is tantamount. Bad behaviour must be "policed" and immediately slapped-down by the Districts, and the Schools, themselves...and it is beyond comprehension that the ADULTS on Campus's cannot SEE what is going on around them.
Ridiculous.
Clearly the issue of fixing violence in the schools goes well beyond the banning the individual tools of violence, it is cultural and moral in nature. Any politician that promises you safety in exchange for your freedom leads me to believe that you do not deserve either. Thus this country is on its way to demand that the government save us from our selves and take away our freedom because we are not able to be responsible enough to handle that freedom. We want to be ruled!
No, Friend. We don't need more invasion of Personal Liberty...we need a CRACKDOWN on the little (or not-so-little) BASTARDS who perpetrate this bullshit.
It's like Alice in Wonderland with you...we are no longer Adults...and the adolescents are running the Asylum.
WE used to respect and have a healthy fear of authority...including Parents, Teachers, Adult neighbours. No more.
This is completely outrageous, and out of hand. The solution is SIMPLE; crack down on the little sons-of-bitches.
I couldn't sleep last night, so I ended up watching some TV. I'll have to check today to see what the guy's name was, but I listened to a black conservative on Huckabee's show explaining that part of the inner-city problem is that 75% of all African-Americans are now born to single mothers. There's a huge part of the problem right there.
Chipping a child is like chipping your dog thinking this will keep him inside the gate. Not going to happen if he is not trained.,
Just to get some perspective, CL:
"As reported by Virtual-Strategy.com, The Northside Independent School District will use the Jay High School and Jones Middle School as a trial for the unconstitutional program and will "require students to participate in the new tracking system in order to boost revenues lost due to absences."
It is not about protection. It is about funding.
Yep.
Wake up!!! Are you an adult? It is the TAXPAYER and THE ADULT that own and run those Schools...can you not obviously see who should command the AUTHORITY, there? I don't care that wuss-bag, feel-good, Leftist New Ager limp-wristed fools don't have the stones to uphold their responsibilities...tough School or no.
If these "students" are allowed to run roughshod over the decent Kids there, to say NOTHING about running roughshod over the AUTHORITIES at that School, then those "authorities" and "adults" need to be FIRED and kicked to the curb; and someone CAPABLE of maintaining order and discipline should be installed.
You cower at the responsibility of those in AUTHORITY kicking their damned asses. What in God's name is the matter with this Country???
I ask you...how in HELL can someone even be "bullied" or beaten in the Halls and Bathrooms of a School??? Where in HELL are the people in Authority???
Inject Human Beings with electronic devices to babysit them??? My God, Renee...how weak and dumb are we going to get?