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Would you be ok with armed national guard in your kid's school to prevent mass shootings?
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:06 pm
It seems every time there's a school shooting emotions go high and people want kneejerk reactions with gun control. My wife is a teacher and has to periodically go through intruder drills where they practice how to hide from a shooter and remain safe. That always pisses me off. Why train on how to be reactive instead of being proactive to try and prevent it from happening in the first place?
What would you think about armed national guard members patrolling each hallway and each entrance to every school? See an individual pull a gun out of a bag or clothes? Shoot them on the spot. This stops mass shootings from becoming "mass" and probably only injures/kills the shooter and maybe one or two others before the shooter is taken down. Let's be proactive in our approach instead of reactive. Why learn how to hide when we can just prevent it in the first place?
Would it be worth it or is that kind of show of force un-American? As a parent, I would support it.
What would you think about armed national guard members patrolling each hallway and each entrance to every school? See an individual pull a gun out of a bag or clothes? Shoot them on the spot. This stops mass shootings from becoming "mass" and probably only injures/kills the shooter and maybe one or two others before the shooter is taken down. Let's be proactive in our approach instead of reactive. Why learn how to hide when we can just prevent it in the first place?
Would it be worth it or is that kind of show of force un-American? As a parent, I would support it.
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Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:07 pm to TDsngumbo
No. Just give school resource officers the authority to do their jobs.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:08 pm to TDsngumbo
Why would that be necessary? There is already a cop in each one.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:08 pm to TDsngumbo
No. I would feel safer if more people carried though.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:08 pm to TDsngumbo
No of course not. I don’t want to militarize the schools for something that even though happens is exceedingly rare.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:09 pm to TDsngumbo
Can you guarantee it would be 100% successful?
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:09 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Why would that be necessary? There is already a cop in each one.
Because there's usually only one or two cops in each school. They can't be everywhere.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:10 pm to Splackavellie
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Can you guarantee it would be 100% successful?
No but I can guarantee a-hole kids would 100% think again before trying something knowing there are armed national guard members with the authority to shoot to kill at the first sight of a gun.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:10 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Why would that be necessary? There is already a cop in each one.
but they always use the “barely made it through the academy” cops for school resource officers. my school resource officer in high school got fired cause she tased herself while chasing someone who was fleeing from her lmfao
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:10 pm to NorthTxLSU
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but they always use the “barely made it through the academy” cops for school resource officers. my school resource officer in high school got fired cause she tased herself while chasing someone who was fleeing from her lmfao
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:11 pm to TDsngumbo
Yes! Let's get our kids used to being reliant upon authorized personnel to be their first and only line of defense against criminals. They'll learn to be compliant one way or another.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:11 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I don’t want to militarize the schools for something that even though happens is exceedingly rare.
You never hear about the plots that get taken care of in the justice system but never reported. As the husband of a teacher in Ascension Parish, I can tell you that in the past 10 years, each school (except for the one you'd expect it from) has had a minimum of one serious plan thwarted. How many of those did you hear about?
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:12 pm to TDsngumbo
I have not fully thought this through, but what if teachers had the choice to be trained in firearms? The ones that pass are allowed to have a firearm in the classroom, in a safe, with only their biometrics and school admins to open it.
IDK....
IDK....
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:13 pm to TDsngumbo
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As the husband of a teacher
Breaking news, teachers exaggerate what goes on at school.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:13 pm to RocketTiger
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I have not fully thought this through, but what if teachers had the choice to be trained in firearms? The ones that pass are allowed to have a firearm in the classroom, in a safe, with only their biometrics and school admins to open it.
I'm all for that too but it's been discussed and shot down by government agencies across the country.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:14 pm to LegendInMyMind
retired teacher here. Went through many of these LID drills. We always had a SRO who was free to do what was needed. But he was only one man, most HS campuses are big enough that a shooter could do massive damage any way. AS far as the Guard, you would need several full time for each school. WE don't have enough guard members to cover all the schools.
Wished I had an answer. If they had let me , I would have carried at school, and done the training
Wished I had an answer. If they had let me , I would have carried at school, and done the training
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:15 pm to CSATiger
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But he was only one man, most HS campuses are big enough that a shooter could do massive damage any way
That's exactly my point.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:16 pm to CSATiger
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Wished I had an answer.
If schools had the same level security as military bases or prisons, no one could ever do any harm.
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:18 pm to TDsngumbo
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You never hear about the plots that get taken care of in the justice system but never reported. As the husband of a teacher in Ascension Parish, I can tell you that in the past 10 years, each school (except for the one you'd expect it from) has had a minimum of one serious plan thwarted. How many of those did you hear about?
Posted on 3/29/21 at 5:22 pm to TDsngumbo
Like any old Joe Snuffy from a finance unit?
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