Coming up: Shortest and least deadly school shooting in history

[GoldenRivet]

ask the neighbors of this kid and his mother up in Sandy Hook... you ever really know your neighbor?

the guy next door to me could be just brimming over first thing tomorrow morning with enough rage to gun down mall patrons. I wouldnt know

I say arm the teachers that wish to be armed... of all the teachers i have known in my life as a student, and just known personally, i have known them to be trustworthy responsible people.

if just one of the sandy hook teachers had a firearm, who knows? this entire tragedy could have been prevented or the death toll greatly reduced.

all i know for sure is if i were going to send my kid off to public school first thing on a monday morning, i'd feel better if the teacher had a colt .45 under his coat

sad we live in such a time where someone would feel that way, but we do.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

all i know for sure is if i were going to send my kid off to public school first thing on a monday morning, i'd feel better if the teacher had a colt .45 under his coat

sad we live in such a time where someone would feel that way, but we do.

Yes it is and I do worry from time to time concerning my daughters in HS. There is a county officer assigned to the school all day. It has been this way for years. He is armed and can effect arrest like his fellow officers. I do believe he deters would be issues.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Yes it is and I do worry from time to time concerning my daughters in HS. There is a county officer assigned to the school all day. It has been this way for years. He is armed and can effect arrest like his fellow officers. I do believe he deters would be issues.

Liaison officers

i recall having one when i went to high school, he mostly broke up fist fights and even served warrants on a couple of seniors once. but thats pretty much it thankfully. all the kids liked him, stopped between classes to visit with him, knew him by name though i cannot recall his name now

he really helped the kids associate good things with the police force

i think the problem with having uniformed liaison officers on school property is that they will usually be the first targeted in a shooting and would never know what hit them thereby eliminating them as a deterrent if the situation came up.

when i was a kid growing up we never really had school shootings or even really heard of such things happening. I was entering my sophomore year and we heard that a kid had a gun on school property but it ended up being a hunting rifle in the back window of the truck - he had brought his father's truck to school because his wouldn't start. The only thing that came of it was that his dad had to come to the school and retrieve the rifle and it was back to business as usual.

i remember another year there was a "bomb scare" when a teacher found a suspicious package in the school court yard. school was delayed about 2 hours (i ended up just staying home all day) it ended up being nothing and there was no threat of any kind so it was just more or less a matter of approaching the situation with caution.

[Task Force]

Teachers... with guns...

"Imagines his old java programming ex marine Vietnam vet teacher with a rifle teaching class."

Well, It would have made Java interesting.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

ask the neighbors of this kid and his mother up in Sandy Hook... you ever really know your neighbor?

the guy next door to me could be just brimming over first thing tomorrow morning with enough rage to gun down mall patrons. I wouldnt know

I say arm the teachers that wish to be armed... of all the teachers i have known in my life as a student, and just known personally, i have known them to be trustworthy responsible people.

if just one of the sandy hook teachers had a firearm, who knows? this entire tragedy could have been prevented or the death toll greatly reduced.

all i know for sure is if i were going to send my kid off to public school first thing on a monday morning, i'd feel better if the teacher had a colt .45 under his coat

sad we live in such a time where someone would feel that way, but we do.

I would not prefer any/all teachers to be carrying, but I am 100% in favor of training principals and APs and issuing them emergency shotgun, in a secure place in their office. At least until this craze passes.