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Teachers need firearms...


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...because this is bullshiz...

 

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/09/08/teacher-invention-may-keep-kids-safer-at-school/

 

"The Sleeve" is a waste of time, when a teacher should be engaging targets.  It's sad how this has come about, because it's borne of weak people seeking a non-firearm solution.  Someone attacking a school is more than worthy of a response with firearms.  That's truly the only thing that stops attackers, and it's already proven.

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This is one fukked up situation! At the high school were I substitute teach they figured out "Hey, the subs can't lock the classroom door on lockdown drills. they don't have any keys!" Their solution? The janitors put a piece of duct tape across the striker of the door when they open the rooms up for the subs in the morning and leave the door locked! Half of the time the striker slips into the striker plate and you can't open the door from the outside so you can't close up the room at lunchtime and you have to leave the door open during classes because of students going to the restroom. Duct tape! And these people think it's a brilliant idea!

 

Don't even get me started about myself and both of the security personnel at the school being retired cops and unable to carry!

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I am all for arming teachers (at least those that are willing to be) and I see where this unit (as well as others designed to rapidly secure entryways) has some value when implemented as an overall strategy (along with armed personnel). The issue I see here is that such a unit could be used for an opposite role.

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  Its this easy , make all our schools un-soft targets . Make sure everyone sees armed guards are present at all times that Children are present . I know some are going to say ,the kids will see guns & be scared of the guns , well that BS , they see LE all the time . 

  Make a LE force just for Schools ! There are plenty of ex-military needing jobs . Money , well if you can find millions to see what happens to monkeys getting drunk , they can find it for the protection of our children !

 

 This country seems to be upside down in there thinking , its almost like they want this stuff to happen & in part ,some may benefit from it politicly .

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  Its this easy , make all our schools un-soft targets . Make sure everyone sees armed guards are present at all times that Children are present . I know some are going to say ,the kids will see guns & be scared of the guns , well that BS , they see LE all the time . 

  Make a LE force just for Schools ! There are plenty of ex-military needing jobs . Money , well if you can find millions to see what happens to monkeys getting drunk , they can find it for the protection of our children !

 

 This country seems to be upside down in there thinking , its almost like they want this stuff to happen & in part ,some may benefit from it politicly .

 

We do it for every Embassy, every Politician, every Hollywood Celeb (personaly paid, on their part, I get it).  Bloomberg hates guns, but he's got armed security.  That's a fucking oxymoron.  Or, just a MORON.

 

Bottom line is this - there's lot's of poop that is pretty damn important to protect with guns, but politicos don't think out children are one of those things.  They'll BANKROLL all kinds of protection, but they're all the more ready to say that schools are no - NO - place for any kind of firearms or security.

 

Almost every bigger school I have seen in the past 8~10 years now, they have a SRO - "School Resource Officer."  Policeman, armed, at school. 

 

Why not have MORE of them?  They don't even need to come from the Local PD, and tax the hell out of the PD.  Make them contractors, as stated above.  You won't find a more qualified person to handle an attack on a school, than a retired military member that's been downrange in the last 12 years. That's a pretty big field to pick from - schools can be selective if they want.  Qualified applicants are out there...  a plenty...

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Almost every bigger school I have seen in the past 8~10 years now, they have a SRO - "School Resource Officer."  Policeman, armed, at school. 

 

Why not have MORE of them?  They don't even need to come from the Local PD, and tax the hell out of the PD.

 

Oro Valley, Arizona provides SROs for all publicly-funded schools in their city limits now.  When they did the study on cost they found that it would be an additional average of $18/per year/per home owned within their city limits.

 

What we need to do is turn it around on the anti-gunners..."Do it for the children!"

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Well we finally bypassed some of Nixon's (D) crap with a few vetoes:

 

 SCHOOL PROTECTION OFFICERS - 160.665, 571.107, 590.010 to 590.207

This act allows a school district to designate one or more school teachers or administrators as a school protection officer. School protection officers are authorized to carry a concealed firearm or self-defense spray device.

 

This act requires a school board that is seeking to designate a school protection officer to hold a public hearing on the matter. Notice of the hearing must be provided by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or county in which the school district is located at least 15 days before the hearing. The board may meet in a closed meeting to determine whether to allow the school protection officer to carry a concealed firearm or self-defense spray device.

 

The officer must keep the firearm or device under his or her personal control at all times while on school property. Violation of this provision is a Class B misdemeanor and may result in the immediate removal of the officer from the classroom and the commencement of employment termination proceedings.

 

School protection officers have the same power to detain and arrest as any other person would have under current law regarding defense of persons and property. Upon detention, the protection officer must immediately notify school administrators and school resource officers. If the person detained is a student, then the parents of the student must also be immediately notified.

 

Those seeking to be designated as school protection officers must make a request in writing to the superintendent of the school district along with proof of ownership of a valid concealed carry endorsement or permit, if the person is seeking to carry a firearm, and a certificate of completion of a school protection officer training program.

 

The school district must notify the director of the Department of Public Safety of the designation of any school protection officer. The department must make a list of all school protection officers available to all law enforcement agencies.

 

This act requires the Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission to establish standards and curriculum for training of school protection officers. The director of the Department of Public Safety must develop, and make available to all school districts, a list of approved school protection officer training instructors, centers, and programs.

 

In order to attend a school protection officer training program, a person must submit to a criminal history background check and, if the person will carry a firearm, prove he or she has a valid concealed carry endorsement or permit.

 

This provision is similar to a provision of SS/SCS/HB 1539 (2014), the perfected SS/SCS/SB 613, CCS2/SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1439 (2014), SB 603 (2014), SB 744 (2014), HB 1474 (2014), HB 436 (2013), and SB 352 (2013).

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  I just don't think arming our Teachers is the answer , they are teachers , not LEO's & putting them in this situation is not really fair to them & the Students , even if the Teacher wants to be part of the program, they would be putting a lot on the line for this.

  Constant training , just to keep up on protocols/weapon handling would be time consuming , well they do have a lot of time off every year though .

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alot of teachers keep up that training anyway...and are more than willing to take the responsibility. why not use them? I have several friends at my weekend job who are educators. one is a UA professor who teaches guard and CCW classes on the side. one is a combat vet who teaches 6th grade. those two in particular already break certain rules that could get them fired in the name of safety. why not make them legit? im willing to bet there are people of similar mindset everywhere.

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  I just don't think arming our Teachers is the answer , they are teachers , not LEO's & putting them in this situation is not really fair to them & the Students , even if the Teacher wants to be part of the program, they would be putting a lot on the line for this.

  Constant training , just to keep up on protocols/weapon handling would be time consuming , well they do have a lot of time off every year though .

 

I know some teachers that shoot and are proficient with firearms and tactics that I would trust more than some police officers I've known!

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^^^  I'm with him.

 

I'm waiting for the mainstream news article about a "teacher" shooting an armed school asssailant.  What we'll never see is the real info that the particular teacher in question is a NRA High Master or USPA champion, or something like that.  WAY more proficient than any local LEO would be, had the local LEO made it to the scene in time to do anything in the first place...   (Not the fault of local LEO response times...). 

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     I see your point , but why let it get to a point that a Teacher has to use deadly force . Its also for show to have armed guards out in the open , on display & on the front line, so to speak. Before the the building can be breached . A better deterrent than , a teacher , that may or may not have combat or LE training or may or may not be where the breach has occurred .

     I don't put a target shooter in those categories , unless, they to have prior training .  

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I'm all for arming teachers...if they are willing to train train train.  Unfortunately, most "gun owners" are still working on the first two boxes of ammo they purchased with their firearm.

 

We gave what was supposed to be a 2 1/2-3 hour seminar on responding to an active shooter, that was pared down to 45 minutes with less than half the staff.  Anything remotely related to a violent act against an(some) agressor(s) wasn't to be discussed.  That left us with "awareness training".

 

Pay attention, watch the cues, the mood changes, pay attention to the kids and their adults.  Report it "We can't do that, as it is a violation of district policies and opens us up for liability."

 

"Well, whatever your policies may be, you had best get it through your proper channels or you may be dealing with an event similar to what we are going to talk about next...actual past incidents."

 

That certainly wasn't the rainbow unicorns and bubblegum farts they wanted to talk about.  Stockton, California; Jonesboro, Arkansas;  Columbine in Colorado, and Virginia Tech.  

 

Most teachers don't want to hear it ("Lalalalalalalalalalala"), let alone prepare for it.

 

After ranting to a friend I grew up with about this, who was raised to shoot and is now a teacher, she was surprised they let us speak at all, let alone for 45 minutes.

 

SROs and the Israeli method...armed parents with a vested interest in stopping attacks.

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     I see your point , but why let it get to a point that a Teacher has to use deadly force .

 

We don't have that choice anymore.  It's been brought to our shores, and to our schools.  We can't "wish" that away.

 

All we can do now is find a way to mitigate it in the future.  We can't prevent it - we can only hope to contain it when it happens.

 

Not my choice, brother, not anyone's choice.  It's already here. 

 

What to we do NOW?... 

 

Fight it. That's what we do. 

 

We can ignore it as long as we want, and we can "wish it away" by clicking our heels together three times...  We can "want or wish" anything we want, at this point. 

 

That doesn't save our kids, in schools.

 

Reality fucking sucks, doesn't it? 

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Teachers need  - TRAINING ON - LAW Rockets.  I'll train them.

 

Fuckface enters your classroom, hell-bent on killing everyone there, in the classroom.  Don't hesitate, blast that motherfucker with the m72A2 LAW Rocket.  When he breaches the door, unload right at the doorway.  Have your kids back - they need to clear the backblast area.  Put those little fuckers in the classroom bathroom, or get under ALL the desks. The backblast on this thing is no joke.

 

Problem solved.  Armed attacker enters classroom, gets turned into pink mist.

 

If that's too harsh for public reality then maybe we need to put armed motherfuckers into schools to protect our kids.  We do it for out money trucks, which are WAY more important than our kids...

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