Do we trust our teachers or not?
Back in the day, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel thanked his employer for safeguarding his well being against readers who might be infuriated by his progressive maunderings. How was he protected? The newspaper building was plastered with “No Firearms” signs.
As if a meth-head survivalist barreling in from the wilds of Oconomowoc, locked and loaded with enough firepower to free a small Caribbean island, would be stymied by a placard! Imagine the would-be terrorist’s frustration as he confronted the inert piece of plastic: “Damn! All this way for nothin’. Wonder if the Domes are open.”
Robb elementary school was posted, fenced, and locked. (Except, inexplicably, for one back door.) The Uvalde school district drilled students and staff in emergency procedures. Can we do more? Sure. Universal background checks, hike the age of gun ownership, end the gun show loophole. Not surprised if Republicans accede to some or all of the above. More mental health treatment? Bipartisan! Devise new algorithms to detect potential shooters? More Big Brother, please. Enact red flag laws? Just remember that courts tread slowly when they’re asked to deprive rights. Ask stalking victims how many court orders are obeyed.
Ban the AR-15? No more deadly than any other semi-automatic firearm. Already 15 million in circulation. Law prof Jonathan Turley explains.
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Which is more traumatic?
Yes, Uvalde employed armed school resource officers who, contrary to first reports, did not deter the shooter. But that’s just one person and we don’t know (as of this writing) whether full-time at the Grades 2 through 4 elementary school. Madison schools don’t even have that, thanks to intimidation from our Woke warriors. Their mantra was that police traumatize kids of color. You think that maybe all of Uvalde TX is traumatized today? A Nation? We said 05-25-22:
Allow licensed school staff proving special competence
to carry weapons in all our schools
Glad to see that WI Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is on the same page. So is the Texas attorney general. But not Wisconsin’s AG. Rob Kaul, good Democrat that he is, freaked out. “We can’t be turning our schools into war zones,” he said. “It’s not going to make them safer. In fact, it would make them more dangerous.”
How safe was the school in Uvalde TX? Ask the husband of one of the two slain teachers. He died of a broken heart two days later. How were those fourth-grade classrooms not a war zone? If one of those teachers had been armed, might some of the innocent deaths been averted? Even if some of the students were caught in the crossfire?
Colorado, Montana, Indiana, and Ohio, allow armed teachers if permitted by the school district. Missouri and Montana law explicitly authorize teachers or other staff to be armed. — Rand Corporation.
Do we trust our teachers or don’t we? Have their backgrounds not already been checked? Might some have had military training? Volunteers only. Registered with the school district. Training on the firing range. Indemnified. Anonymous. Could be Mr. Brown or Mrs. Wychowski, the shop teacher or the lunch lady. Their possible presence posted at every entrance and fence.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Let’s face it, sports fans: There is no magic bullet (please pardon the metaphor) to ending school shootings. But a “No Firearms” sign is an invitation to mayhem. As is Madison’s emotion-driven expulsion of school resource police officers.
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I’d rather not have armed teachers, Even if well trained they would soon get complacent. Recall our former police chief who baked his gun in the oven. The police chief in my hometown managed to shoot himself in the leg, alone in his office. Who knows how any teacher would react in a life and death scenario? The good guy with a gun scenario is a crapshoot.
I apply that to cops as well.
For now it makes more sense to beef up physical security.
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A current bumper-sticker mantra concerns the good guy with a gun stopping the bad guy with a gun.
In reality, the ONLY thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
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The ONLY thing? Hardly. Sometimes it’s just a locked door.
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The NRA won’t allow you into their convention with your gun. Are they afraid? Aren’t they stomping on your rights? Where’s the outrage?
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“During the 151st NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, personal firearms may be carried in the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRBCC) in accordance with Texas law.”
https://www.nraam.org/attend/firearms-policy/
That took me ten seconds. Too much work for R.L. They were not allowed during D.T. address due to standing Secret Service policy for ex-Presidents.
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“Too much work for *.*.
That’s because the Blogge Idiot has a shoesize I.Q. and couldn’t spell cat even if you spotted him the c and the a.
The Gotch
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I had several teachers who were veterans or active duty members of the National Guard. I would gladly have any of those teachers be armed.
But again, the real issue here is not the guns, but the culture of death that surrounds us.
Way back in the stone age, the 60’s and the 70’s when I was in school we, as I have said before, brought guns to school, left them in our cars, left the cars unlocked, went to school, got out of school and went hunting.
There was never an issue.
My question would be: Why is this an issue now?
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Why? Because of the gop.
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Bill, there has been a lot of reasoned discussion about this very question on some other blogs I read over the last couple days. Civilian gun ownership has been around since this country’s founding and percentages of households owning them hasn’t changed much over the last 50 years. Maniacs randomly shooting up schools and other public places is relatively new though, at least at the frequency we’re seeing now. So perhaps a better question is: What on Earth is driving these people to hate themselves and the world so much that they choose to hurt it in the worst way they can as they exit it? Targeting guns and gun owners while ignoring that question makes zero sense and will cause more problems than it will solve.
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Bill, there has been a lot of reasoned discussion about this very question on some other blogs I read over the last couple days. Civilian gun ownership has been around since this country’s founding and percentages of households owning them hasn’t changed much over the last 50 years. Maniacs randomly shooting up schools and other public places is relatively new though, at least at the frequency we’re seeing now. So perhaps a better question is: What on Earth is driving these people to hate themselves and the world so much that they choose to hurt it in the worst way they can as they exit it? Targeting guns and gun owners while ignoring that question makes zero sense and will cause more problems than it will solve.
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Left in our cars? Hell, in 1959 I took my rifle into West High school to my speech class to give a demonstration on how to sight one in. It then sat in my unlocked locker for several days because I kept forgetting to take it home. No one batted an eye…..
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Is someone who is willing to mass-murder people going to follow any laws we might impose?
We all know the Left’s ultimate goal is gun bans and confiscation.
. . . and even that would not stop a mass murderer
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This is total BS. The cops in that town are a disgrace. I am sick of hearing all this crap about crt, replacement, woke this, woke that. We have a bunch of gutless, money grubbing politicians with no guts or morals. Now it’s time to get pi##ed off and vote out these a##holes. The day of the shooting Abbott went to a fund raiser; ARE YOU KIDDING ME. ROJO’s statement was just plain stupid. He’s been using taxpayers money to travel to Fld.! He needs to stay there. Even Pucker Carlson called bulls#$t on this mess. Maybe you rightwing nutbags should “tan your testicles” and act like a man.
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Hopeless Changey said we MUST remember career felon George Floyd (two years clean-n-sober!) rather than murdered Uvalde children.
Faux Latinx Bobbette O’Dourke shamelessly politicizes the shooting deaths of innocent children…(committing [heh!] political seppuku while so doing) ARE_YOU_KIDDING_ME?
The a##hole democrat Party of WAR, DEATH, HATRED and RAYcism will be voted out…in a shellacking of Biblical Proportions, which will make Sherman’s siege of Atlanta seem like a Sunday stroll.
Lefty has the Hot Button issues of gender confusion, hairy guys in little girls’ bathrooms, birthing persons, Grooming, and correct pronouns all sewn up.
Buh Bye, despicable Lefties!!!
The Gotch
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Ricky Gervais deserves the stand-up comedian’s version of the Nobel Prize for the way he skewered the lefty hot button issues mentioned above. Part of the wave of comedians re-discovering the First Amendment (as well as the rich untapped vein of comedic potential in the self-righteous pricks on the left).
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Glad to see that you finally passed your load of crap. I bet it was a two flush dump.
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I’m trying to imagine a teacher in the MMSD carrying a gun (or touching one, for that matter). Still trying ….
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I liken it to the thought that wanting to be President should automatically disqualify someone from the office. Do I trust teachers? No. Do I trust them to carry guns? Good Lord No.
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An interesting point was made today. I wonder if you would care to comment on it.
In this country, there have been laws outlawing murder for quite some time and yet there are still murders. So if you can’t pass laws stopping murder, how are you going to pass a law to stop people from murdering others with guns?
Further more, the Texas school murderer was arrested four years ago for saying that he was going to shoot up a school when he was 18. https://www.mediaite.com/tv/house-republican-claims-uvalde-school-shooter-was-arrested-four-years-ago-for-threat-to-shoot-up-a-school/
Just how in the hell did someone writing such a screed be able to legally purchase a weapon?
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How ’bout we stop raising kids to believe that their lives are hell on earth, and that it is all the fault of some other group? To believe that they, (and I mean each and every one of them), are part of some aggrieved “marginalized” community and only “direct action” is the answer? They are just kids, let them play, and be kids. Set out jump ropes and footballs at recess, and mind your own business about who takes what. They’ll figure it out.
And stop referring to killers as “the gunman”, when “sniveling coward” and “insignificant little insect” are so much more apropos. (It will kill their “likes” on social media, as well.)
And tell your favorite “wokey” to STFU, because?, just because…..
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He’ll know why.
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All the focus is on guns, BUT— You want to kill a bunch of kids? Just park in line with the parents and buses, and when school lets out jump the curb and drive down the sidewalk. It’s the “Waukesha Parade Technique”. Don’t need “assault” tires, “high capacity” bumpers, or “fully automatic” transmission, (stick shift works)
The point is, weapons are irrelevant, those with the desire will find a way. Kids are being screwed up by social media, violent games and movies, and indoctrination in the classroom, etc.. By the time today’s Grade Schoolers are in High School, the left will be calling for a ban on scissors.
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Five years ago, I was firmly against putting more guns in schools. Now, I’m having second thoughts. I hate that it has come to this, but all these incidents might be cause to give selected well-trained and screened staff the option to carry. At least as a (hopefully) temporary measure while we develop ways to identify and put away unstable people with violent tendencies. And while we force the progressives to admit that the nuclear family, strong father figures, and institutions that establish a sense of community are the best long-term weapons against young men going berserk.
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I’ve noticed that for many years now, that every time a mass shooting occurs, the rush begins to institute laws that, if they had been in effect before the shooting, would have made zero difference. The shooters in both Buffalo and Uvalde bought their guns legally, with full back ground checks. Not at a gun show or private purchase. No known mental health issues, or criminal records. I’m sure there have been shooting where the guns were obtained illegally, but I only recall the Columbine shooting where they had an older friend buy their shotguns. But my point is that how the guns were obtained is pretty much inconsequential. The Uvalde shooter waited until 2 days after his 18th birthday to legally buy his first rifle. My guess is that if the legal age had been 21, he would have found a way to circumvent the rule.
Psychopathic shooters gotta shoot.
50 years ago, the very idea that somebody would descend on a school and gun down defenseless children, was ludicrous. Now it is a known fact of life, and I will boldly predict that it continue to occur until the shooters pick different targets. You want to prevent school shootings? Harden the target. Every school in this country has to hire a janitor. They should also hire armed security. Arming volunteer teachers also wouldn’t hurt either. The shooters are psychopaths AND they are cowards. They ALWAYS choose unarmed, defenseless targets. If it isn’t a school, it’s a Wal-Mart, grocery store, subway, night club, movie theater. (But notice that the school shooters are much younger than the others. Columbine, Sandyhook, Marjorie-Stoneman and Robb Elementary were all committed by 17-20 year olds.) Not many attack a gun range or police station. But the schools hold our most precious resource. Our children deserve MORE armed protection than is regularly provide at every bank and government office building. Period.
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DA’s prosecute minimally. “Activists” want no jails, defund cops, no cops in schools and confiscation of certain weapons from law abiding citizens. (Says Beto Irishman)
Keep the good ideas coming Democrats…
What can possibly go wrong.
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