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Well, in 2004 we had a new all time record 48 dead in the schools from violence
48?
We're having a freaking debate about spending BILLIONS of dollars to save 48 lives?
He didn't flat out say it, but I think it was impliedAnd no where in that article, unless I missed it, was the notion of letting people who carry every day in all other locations, do the same thing at work, which happens to be a school.
Nobody disagrees with you. But if the anti-gun whiners are going to make such a big deal about school shootings, it's up to us to point to an actual solution.Folks, we lose probably 10 times that number due to traffic accidents on the way TO and FROM that same school.
I'm sorry, it's a tough world out there.
Life is not risk-free.
And no where in that article, unless I missed it, was the notion of letting people who carry every day in all other locations, do the same thing at work, which happens to be a school.
Look, our federal budget is already in massive deficit. And I don't know about your town, but we've been doing eeverything, including several tax raises, to keep our already small police and sheriff depts from having to lay off cops. There are about 16 public schools in my town. We couldn't get an extra 16 cops to save our lives. If it could be done, we'd already have them...on our streets.
But there's this notion that ONLY a police officer is "qualified" to use a firearm in self-defense in a public space, even though citizens do it in environments just as crowded and just as chaotic as a school all the time.
It costs about $70-100k a year for a cop, including salary, overtime, benefits, equipment, the works, depending on the area. You could send every teacher in every school who has a CPL to the Washington Criminal Justice Training Center for a week of firearms training (as good as any cop gets) for about $1,200 a pop plus ammo and per diem.
You don't have to pay them extra, you don't have to hire extra bodies and the only necessary annual cost is a re-qual and whatever annual training budget you want to have.
Hell, a membership at a local gun club and free ammo would do for most people!
But this is somehow crazy. and the numbers the speaker in that article include ALL sources of school violence. an amed cop at the school doesn't stop someone from doing a drive-by of the parking lot or a knifing in the bathroom.
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48?
We're having a freaking debate about spending BILLIONS of dollars to save 48 lives? And whatever you do, you're only going to get a fraction of those prevented or stopped.
Folks, we lose probably 10 times that number due to traffic accidents on the way TO and FROM that same school.
I'm sorry, it's a tough world out there.
Life is not risk-free.
We make schools more dangerous than they have to be by no-guns policies for teachers and classified personnel. But even then, they are INCREDIBLY SAFE compared to damn near anywhere else.
If anyone is all-fire-up to spend money, offer free firearms training to teachers. But frankly, we could just take away the gun-free policies and we'd be better off than we are now and it wouldn't cost a dime.