2:26 pm ET
Dec 21, 2012


Readers React to NRA Call for Armed Police Officers in Schools

    • Agreed with the NRA or not, it was good to see someone finally state his position firmly and forthrightly. I've never considered a proper "I told you so" out of line, and was glad to hear it here. Nice to see the heckler hustled ouit promptly, too, thereby ensuring the speaker's I Amdt. rights.

    • They kill our children, and we fall back. They produce countless gun deaths, and we fall back. Not again. Not this time. The line must be drawn here!

    • Mr. LaPierre is right!
      If the President, the elite, the rich, the famous are protected by the "good guys with guns" , why can't others?

    • Thought provoking. I know there are police officers assigned to some of the local high schools but I don't know if they are carrying. In the sixteen years I attended public schools and a private university I only saw a police officer once and that was a detective investigating a vandalism incident. Har far we have fallen!

    • NRA Proposes Escalation Instead of Gun Control -- No School Left Behind Without A Tower Mounted Sniper"
      "Digging Moats Cheaper And More Effective?"

    • Biased article that showed more people against the NRA... (I'm not a member by the way). You know why we haven't had a child fire death in schools for the past half century? It's because protections were put in place - sprinkler systems, fire drills and alarms. Having an armed guard, having drills, developing procedures to alert police will all help diminish the risks of something like this happening again.

    • Of course, in criticizing the violence in video games, Mr. LaPierre did not address the significant role played by guns of all types in those video games. I don't disagree with him that video games glamorize violence, but it is usually gun violence that is glamorized.

      His suggestion that armed guards protect schools just means yet more expense for the schools, taken away from educational and extracurricular programs.

    • I watched the speech. It was all very predictable. We have to protect our children. We must blame the media. We must blame video games. How dare people think that the easy access to weapons of mass destruction must be terminated? Even the protesters were predictable, good thing neither of them had a weapon to terminate the speaker, then the NRA could blame itself for not protecting its spokesperson.

    • So where does this armed official sit? At the front door?

      Just where the crazed gunman enters?

      Or is s/he somewhere else on the premises?

      In the lunchroom having coffee?

      Tell me how s/he is just where it means the most?

      And which Republicans will vote for the tax increase in each state or the nation this requires?

    • If the NRA believes this, then the NRA should pay for all the armed officers. The NRA has made plenty of money off of death and violence. In fact, arming thousands of school guards sounds like just another way to sell more guns--the real goal of the NRA.

    • Ft Hood army base experienced a massacre where one guy shot over 40 trained soldiers, killing 13. What's a retired cop going to do in the face of a Newton style attack? It seems that a more sensible approach would be to ban assault weapons, as it's hard to quickly shoot a lot of people when you don't have one

    • What good is a guard against a suicidal lunatic who barges in with a 100-round assault rifle? These killers won't be deterred, they're insane and suicidal and expect to die. Not that it matters, since the guard will either be shot before he even knows what's happening, or won't be able to make it into the classroom before the kids are slaughtered.

      But wait, the NRA has another solution -- do something about the imaginary violence in video games and entertainment, and treat the tiny minority of psychotics who will do something like this, even though psychiatrists say that they're unable to determine in advance which of their patients will.

      All so some gun nuts can buy assault weapons and large-capacity magazines that have no purpose other than killing people, and play Rambo.

      The NRA has the blood of our children on its hands.

    • I seriously think we are dealing with people with extremely limited ability to understand complexities of life when we talk about NRA. Their basic aim in life is "Sell more guns, make more money" all under the guise of 2nd amendment - period. So the american people will have to decide whether this group has severe conflict of interest between kids lives and making money. I definitely think the public is much bigger than NRA - Ditch them NOW!

    • If we followed the NRA's logic, all public congregation points would have armed guards, which is insane on top of unaffordable. It boggles the mind that anyone would think this is a solution. Every public place is going to be like an airport?

    • Do you agree for an extra tax to provide for armed guards at every school and public place? Who is going to pay for armed guards everywhere?

    • I suggest we require a hefty tax on guns and ammo, as well as a significant licensing fee for all guns.

    • Who pays for this? Do we fire a few more teachers to pay the guard's salary

    • Mr. LaPierre has not stated why it is necessary to have high powered assault weapons in the hands of the public. These arms only belong to the military and Law Enforcement. Why does the NRA support 40% of gun sales without a background check? The NRA is he real evil in our society not al Queda.

      It is time for a revolution to have the NRA stop holding our congress as hostages.

    • Hey right wing nuts, if those children had been aborted they would have never died.

    • What a sad day for America. Mr. LaPierre's speech was a disgrace. The NRA promised to make a meaningful contribuituon to the dialogue and instead proposed that we can somehow make this nation safer by having - wait for it - more guns. We already have more guns per capita than any other civilized nation and we've never been less safe: in our schools, churches, shopping malls. There was an armed guard at Virgina Tech, and it didn't make a difference. There was an armed guard in Aurora, and it didn't make a difference. For shame!

      Time to repeeal the immunity for gun manufacturers so they can be held accountable if they make and market weapons whose only purpose is massacre. Time to institute a mandatory background check for all gun owners. And time to put the NRA out of business for reckless endangerment. If not now, then when? If not us, then who?

    • Move all socialist pigs to gun free zones.

    • The NRA makes a valid point that schools are a soft target without any means of protection. Unfortunately we do have evil and crazy people in our socieyt who would harm others. Given that situation, placing deterents (armed guardss,) in our schools makes considerable sense.

    • NRA IDEA is the Best Idea Ever We need Armed Police Officer at Every School*****PLEASE PEOPLE SUPPORT THIS IDEA-IT DOESNT MATTER WHO IT IS COMING FROM IT IS FOR THE PROTECTION OF LITTLE CHILDREN WHO CANT DEFEND THEIRSELVES WHEN SOME CRAZY WANTS TO WALK INTO A SCHOOL Or MOVIE . There are cops just giving out useless tickets when 20 little babys got murdered because there was not guard on duty with a sufficient weapon then a common person could acquire. ***Those kids got Massacred we need to prevent it from happening again once the next Crazy comes along**believe if Adam Lanza new that a Police Officer with a Fully Automatic Rifle was on duty at that school he would have "Never Showed Up" there and we need to make sure it never happens again ***AMERICA PLEASE STAND UP & PROTECT THE INNOCENT CHILDREN AT RISK HERE-LETS NOT TAKE 2 YEARS TALKING ABOUT WHAT CAN BE DONE **LETS DO IT NOW.. WE DONT WANT SOME OTHER PARENTS FEELING THIS GREAT LOSS EVER AGAIN *NOT IN AMERICA

    • Since NRA proposes stationing armed police officer at every school, NRA therefore should support legislation funding the additional police officers paid for through new taxes purchasing guns and new taxes requiring annual license renewal. This discussion in Congress ought to get all the stakeholders out of the closet to get some day light.

    • "Given that situation, placing deterents (armed guardss,) in our schools makes considerable sense."

      Of couse! The answer to gun violence is more guns! Brilliant. And who is going to pay the billions of dollars it costs to put an armed guard at every school? The NRA? The tea baggers in congress? Hah!

    • We don't need more guns, we should open a dialogue with criminals.

    • Obama lied children died.

    • What the NRA has proposed is a sad testament to the violence throughout society. Yes, it would be great to have true violence free guns and gun free zones, but there are near 300 millions guns now in the public's hands. If we go to the extreme of banning all guns and confiscation, we would probably only achieve the 40-50% removal rate achieved by England, Canada and Australia. That leaves about 150 million guns out there. The NRA has proposed a real facts of life solution. A weapons free zone only creates the perfect place for madmen and madwomen to do their deeds and be certain no one will stop them for 10-30 minutes until an armed response arrives on the scene.

      Additionally, explosive devices are now easily made with common household chemicals and instructions available on the internet. Had the crazy 20 year old Ct. guy not had an assault weapon would he not have gone to that school? He was intelligent and well versed in mass killing. Any bomb he could have made would have wiped out about 4-5 classrooms and about 70-100 children.

    • The solution to gun violence is not a multiple choice question, unless the choice "all of the above" appears. Gangs, sociopaths, mentally ill (etc.) will always present a danger to innocent people but putting more guns in the hands of "good guys" can only lead to easier access to guns for the "bad guys". Also, not stated, but logically inferred is that the "good guys" will somehow bring about a vigilante type of justice that will somehow make us all safer. This is hard to buy into. LaPierre makes a good point when talking about the violence that our society, particularly youth, is constantly exposed to in video games and on TV. This too has got to stop.

    • Apparently some folks think more of their money, celebrities, President etc. than they do of our children. The aforementioned all have armed security. We have armed guards everywhere (yes, even in some public schools) yet these 'ban all guns' folks don't use reason and realize there will always be evil among us. So I say let's guard our children. BTW, a semi-auto gun shoots one bullet at a time. They are NOT 'machine guns'. I would rather have an armed guard or teacher on hand that could hoof it to the shooter in a minute or two than have the cops get there 10 or 15 minutes later, and then minutes later enter the building. By then the
      defenseless have already been slaughtered. Quit emoting people and think.

    • The NRA was proposing using trained security Guards, Police, and training former military members for Security Guard assignments. I didn't hear anything about vigilante type of justice. We send billions of US Taxpayer dollars overseas to hostile and sometimes violent countries. Lets use most of that to make our children safer.

    • Ok, fine, we will protect schools - this will require 105000 full-time security guards (for each school). Later a gunman will do a massacre in a library - USA will hire 50000 security guards for each library... eventually we will end up with millions of full time security guards at every public vicinity!!! This is NONSENSE!!! Ban ALL GUNS - problem solved!


    • We cannot have a "good guy with a gun" at every corner and in every building! COMMON! TAKE ALL GUNS AWAY!!!

    • Suggest we hire hundreds of thousands of armed guards at the cost of billions of dollars just so they can keep their M16s. LOL

    • Some wag just posted an objection to armed personnel in schools by stating he/she is afraid a teacher would be fired to pay for the guard. Man, that post is sick. (Let's see: hmmm, job? Dead child? So hard to choose. ) with thinking like that, maybe our society is already a goner.

    • "Ok, fine, we will protect schools – this will require 105000 full-time security guards (for each school)"

      You'd actually need almost 2 for every school since people get sick, or injured, or take vacation. Let's say their salary is 40k, plus 10k for benefits. That's 5 billion just for one guard at every school without uniforms, guns or training.

    • One of my followers on Twitter Yesterday Approached me with the question:
      Would you support "locators in guns" My Intial Response was "of-course" but I'd rather have them in the bullets, they scare me much more than guns do. His responded with the idea of putting forth a proposal for something similar to gps locators in guns, the logic being, is that schools could then tell if an ansault rifle was getting too close to the school. I asked him if he'd ever tried to get 600 grade-schoolers out of the school quietely, and thinking further , it would seem like lining them up in the parkinglot would just make better targets, although I suppose they could head to one central location within the school that had been prepared for such a thing.
      If you read the above you will see again, while initial ideas may seem agreeable but when you really start thinking them through they are not. The bottom line is:
      We should do away with asult rifles sold to the public. Perhaps "Rental" assult rifles could be made available from those organization who could be *Licensed* through the Federal Government, so that proper background checks can be made etc. I'm thinking about this because I can see where retired military folks might want to keep up on skills, and where those who wish to hone those skills for acceptence into some crime prevention/swat/something like that.. and maybe those people want to go out on the weekend with their spouse and practice or something.

      I've thought allot about this ove the last few days because of all the news reports and I've always been a supporter of weapons banning. Now that this has come up I'm honestly not so sure. Especially when it's re-actionairy where-as people may regret it at a later date. I also beleive that if there is anything to cause additional dissention between the individual states and those who want to leave our union , it would be this.

      Having said all of the above:
      The quickest, easiest way I can see to limit this, is an immediate ban / recall on bullets. Then only allow a person to purchase X number of bullets at a time, and require they be accounted for when the owner is due back from hunting. i.e. they have to turn in the casing. Immediately discontinue the sales of /importing of any type of re-loader, self-loading equipment. i.e. Make it unlawful to create your own ammunition.

      This puts the burden on those who are selling the amumition in the first place. So if they really want to make a profit by selling guns and amunition, then they need to also be held accountable for it. Keeping the record of who buys each amount ( limited amounts of course ) and again matching those records to when they bring back the casing.

      Just a thought or two.

    • Many schools in NYC and in Southern California already have armed officers. I remember one school cop in Manhattan being taken down to the ground by a bunch of unarmed marauding teenagers. He called for back-up and about a dozen officers showed up and went running down the halls, unfastening their holsters and drawing their guns. Fortunately, the cop wasn't seriously hurt and no one was shot. In conclusion: A) We need TWO armed officers AND metal detectors in public schools, in which there are plenty of nuts and really bad actors. B) Do what you can to send your kids to private school.

    • Anonymous: that's why I advocate school personnel, My school district has an armed security department, Our largest school district also had it's own police dept., but they weren't allowed to carry. That has changed.

    • Confusing post: I advocated for trained concealed carry for principals, teachers etc.

    • Ban Guns. Well, England, Australia and Canada tried this. Are all guns gone? No
      40-50%+- compliance rate. Reality must be faced.
      It takes 15-30 minutes to assemble transport until arrival of an armed response unit. Lot of killing can be done in that time period.

    • ".Ban Guns. Well, England, Australia and Canada tried this. Are all guns gone? No
      40-50%+- compliance rate. Reality must be faced."

      Compliance or not, they have dramatically less gun violence. More guns = more gun violence.

    • "I advocated for trained concealed carry for principals, teachers etc."

      Excellent idea. That way a kid doesnt need to bring a gun to school. They can simply crack the principal over the head and fire at will. Brilliant.

    • In some parts of South America, there are armed guards in fast-food restaurants. It's easy to poke fun at that, and say 'Not us, thank God,' but this is exactly what the NRA is proposing. The more America is an armed camp, with armed guards everywhere, the more the NRA and its client gun-makers win. Because profit is all they care about. Guns are and always will be more important than people. Appeals to good sense and morality are lost on those with none.


    • This is a great idea! I'd much rather see a cop in a school than chatting away on a road detail.

    • "Appeals to good sense and morality are lost on those with none."

      How does taking the responsibility for defending oneself and one's freedoms violate "good sense" and morality?

    • “Given that situation, placing deterents (armed guardss,) in our schools makes considerable sense.”

      It makes perfect sense. To be honest, I've often wondered why terrorists haven't hit our schools.

    • "We cannot have a “good guy with a gun” at every corner and in every building! "

      Sure we can, if we all arm ourselves!

    • The fools who say "more guns = more gun violence" ignore that the following has also been proven true repeatedly throughout the world:

      "more guns = less OVERALL violence"

      Verbal slight of hand is the eternal weapon of the political Left. They have few others.

    • Veterans should be hired to defend our schools just like they do in Israel. Restricting ownership of firearms is not only foolish but plays into the hands of the fascists who would love to see an unarmed Americans. Americans are stupid, foolish people.

    • “more guns = less OVERALL violence”

      Which is why America is the safest country in the world... oh, wait. You're full of sh!t.


      And Israel also has far looser gun restrictions than the US .... oh wait, another tea bagger that is full of sh!t.

    • Conservatives love freedom so much, they want to place armed guards in all of our childrens classrooms so that they can keep their Ak47. Makes perfect sense. Can't you smell the freedom?

    • As long as a killer has a semi-automatic weapon, he/she will have a good chance of doing a ton of damage before an armed guard arrives. The killing in this case took only minutes (less than 10) and the way it unfolded, it seems likely that a person with an M-16 would easily kill a security guard with a handgun unless the security guard were very lucky/good. An armed security guard at every class would likely save lives, but a cost of how many billions of dollars. I would suggest a tax on all gun sales and a higher license tax and higher penalties for not licensing guns with all the revenue going to hire the security guards that the NRA thinks are the solution. Oh, and outlaw private ownership of semi-automatic guns.

    • I'm for more government with armed guards In schools, malls, public gatherings, etc etc. Raise taxes on the upper 2 percent to pay for this.

    • Why doesn't the NRA pay for the armed guards at the schools? Furthermore, we then would have to have guards at shopping malls, universities, churches, etc. etc. etc. Don't you think it's better to ban weapons. You people (if you are people) are more interested in increasing your bank accounts than saving human lives.

      San Juan, Puerto Rico

    • We have armed gaurds for the President our GOLD & CASH all have armed guards yet our childern our most important resource shouldnt have the same liberity??

      (federal reserve has armored trucks and heavily armed guards at the fed its self if you ever been to the federal reserve that makes and destroys our bills it is guarded like ft knocks.)

    • hey ban why not ban mass murders make it punishable by death. oh wait criminals dont follow the law so why would they follow the ban.

    • It worked out for the Jews why shouldn't we follow 1930's Germans because i bet the Germans banned guns for the Jews own safety.

    • Just have National guard stand outside the schools they are already on the payroll and they can carry Military issue assault rifles no new taxes and they can be rotated through every week.
      we dont need police we just need guards with assault rifle.

    • In Compton la they have armed guards and call it a high school but i guess when its a white kids school with guards they call it a Prison

    • train ,then arm ,with shotguns,[securaly stored] ,, one or more of the education staff,[with I.D. in strictest of

      confidence].After all we trust them to raise our children for us as it is.If a notice were posted on each entrywaythat there is arm ed educators on duty ,it would be a huge deturant.

    • How much money is spent to protect school children from fire, including the training of school personnel and fire drills?

    • The only solution is to make assault weapons illegal to own. The government needs to buy all the guns outstanding. There has to be a mandatory jail sentence for possessing assault weapons.

    • Teachers and Principles have all been educated by liberals so they are liberals also.
      They would not carry weapons because they wouldn't go to weapons schools in order to learn how to carry and fire weapons safely.

      Each State should rotate their state guard for school security, that way there would not be any additional cost (other than lunch money).

    • Lets have armed guards in schools, restaurants; movie theatres, shopping malls, -anywhere a group might congregate. We are the land of the free!

    • Our school district has its own police department. However each school doesn't have their own officer because of the size of our district. I don't think it would stop someone from shooting up a school. Just like a bank, the killer would take the officer down first.

    • One side believes a gun can turn even the most responsible, caring adult into a crazed lunatic. The other needs to admit that even though overwhelming majority of millions of legal gun owners are responsible and safe, they do have a few knuckle-draggers in the mix. The answer lies in the middle. The common sense approach would be to allow a few caring, mature adults at each school, possibly veterans, who are willing to shoulder the tremendous weight and responsibility of carrying a gun to do so. I'm talking serious, regular training here, much more than that given to your average police officer. The children should be taught that a gun on the hip of someone of this caliber means safety, protection, responsibility and love. Sad that society has allowed the hysterical, non-thinkers on one side to leverage a few knuckle-draggers on the other to so demonize an inanimate object that children and adults can only hide when faced with a madman.

    • My wife recently retired from an elementary school here in Central Florida. The school had one "resource officer" provided by the Sherriff's Department. He was armed, but that wasn't much of an issue. He seemed to be very well-regarded by the staff and children and played an important role in the discipline system, often giving kids a "good talking-to" in the event of extreme misbehaviors. There was a bit of speculation that he would be removed due to budget issues last year and there was quite a bit of unhappiness among the staff that this might occur. It's doubtful that he would offer much protection in the face of an armed assailant with an assault rifle, but he made everyone feel much safer during that all-too-frequent lockdowns that occurred.

      Note: I'm a liberal...my wife's a liberal...I think that Mr. LaPierre is all wet. But I'd be inclined to support greater use of resource officers rather than less.

    • First of all, the Constitution guarantees the right to "bear arms" not "bear guns," so the absolutist argument for unfettered gun rights is utterly bogus. If the founding fathers had intended that we the people enjoy complete, unencumbered rights to bear arms, I'd own a bazooka, a shoulder-mounted surface-to-air rocket launcher, any number of grenades, and some chemical weapons.

      Gun-rights advocates don't seem to have a problem with the aforementioned "arms" being prohibited. Nor do they seem to have a problem with that prohibition being enforced.

      Second, if you think banning guns doesn't work, as the lame argument goes, just ask yourself: How many people have been massacred in civilian settings by criminals wielding bazookas???????

    • Just think of all the innocent civilians who died because of a handful of perpetrators wielding box cutters.

      The nation never had a week-long debate about banning box cutters…


    • Modern weapons and ammunition that the NRA loves are so powerful that they can kill scores of people before any guard in the building shows up! NRA you have blood on your hands!

    • Why not assign a SWAT team for each school? Get a SEAL team for each school! Our right to own assault rifles and high capacity magazines is Number 1. Whatever be the cost! We can cut funds from No Child Left Behind or some other educational program to pay for it!

    • where I live, are already so bad, just from the kids...they have an armed officer on duty every day.

    • Do you propose to ban all weapons?

      Also, how do you propose that we get all of the illegal assault weapons out of the hands of criminals and gangs, drug people, etc ?

      Easy enough to ban assault weapons for citizens who want to legally own...but how are you going to clear the masses of unregistered guns off of the streets?

    • after all of the shootings, including the Gifford's tragedy.....under his first term?
      Perhaps this could have been avoided?

      Hmmm.....instead wait until first tragedy after RE-election?

    • He was too busy taking over health care and wasting a trillion on welfare, pork, and paybacks, in a bill that wasn't really shovel ready.

    • is one shot....to take out the guard.
      Easy enough...and no assault weapon needed.

    • of people who fit the profile of mass murderers...their parents ignore it, friends ignore it, peers ignore it.

      Even if you ban assault weapons, they can strap on 4 pistols and repeat Newtown.

    • ignore the warning signs in their children? peers ignore those who they know could prove deadly?
      Denial? Fear?

      I have a friend with a son who concerns me. Considering his deep issues, they seem awfully hard to try and mainstream him...and it doesn't work. I understand that parents want their children to be "normal"....but when they put others at risk, by not controlling and monitoring their "troubled" or mentally unstable children...they are the ones responsible, IMO.
      Why not give parents some accountability?
      I am honestly afraid that the person I know, her son is going to do something to really hurt someone...they give him too much rope, freedom....let him drive, and he is obviously impaired when you try and relate to him.
      It's one thing if he vandalizes property....but guess what....when he kills someone, he will simply go to an institution, not a prison....because he isn't competent enough to stand trial.
      In that case, iMO.....his parents, should stand trial....for not reining him in....and thinking of the safety of people around him.
      They know his impairments, just don't want to accept them.

    • like this boy had includes a wide spectrum of severity. Barely noticeable to severe. There are boatloads of autistic children being born, and no one has yet figured out why. Aspergers is a mild form of autism. Perhaps we need deeper research ? How do you identify which kids diagnosed with this disorder, are more likely to commit mass murder?
      Seems social awkwardness has been named as a characteristic of most mass murderers.

    • Nobody has done that! I have asked many times


    • Americans need to get out more and see how the rest of the world lives. Sad to say yours is a sick, sick, sick society.

    • Why don't you bring up NYC's murder rate instead? That's a city with very strict gun controls that have been implemented over the years. It had 2605 murders in 1990. Last year it had 774. Gun control works. Look at any first world country and compare it to America - I will guarantee you, there will be less guns, less gun deaths, lower murder rates. Time Americans woke up to the fact that this gun addiction is a sick disease.

    • I think we can find a way - as a society to find reason and logic - and help each other to acknowledge that some guns need to be put down and not available - at al l- to any one outside of the military service people.

    • Could you explain the tough gun laws in Chicago, Newark, DC.....and the fact that their murder rates are sky high?

    • what makes all of you people who are for armed teachers or guards think they can't flip out and take out a class room? If you mix together two different household detergents smell it your dead. just saying

    • Is America so dumbed down that it cannot think anything through!? The guns didn't murder those kids, THE KILLER DID! Video game excuses, Hollywood hell denial, and Internet gaming madness! Gee, do ya think?! WAKEUP AMERICA!! and Wayne........YOUR GONE!!

    • I am so tired of the whining of the liberal bleeding hearts, and their irresponsible stupidity! THE KILLER played this all out in his head, before ever stepping out to do it!! Uh,.....Gee, where did he get the ideas??

    • The very idea of arming teachers, or having armed guards in every school, makes me shudder!! It's insanity run amok! Does Stalin ring any bells people?!

    • It's all about low carbon future.

    • The best solution, of course, is to promote home schooling. With reduced student levels, children could be consolidated into fewer classes. This would require fewer teachers and security officials. In fact, fewer classes would make it affordable to fortify our schools. Furthermore, empty classrooms could be used for NRA-directed weapons instruction--starting with weapon types, magazine capacity, rate of fire, and ballistics. Other rooms could be converted to firing ranges. In order to turn America into an armed camp we will need every shooter that we can get. It just makes sense to start with children—like the tobacco companies do. And, hopefully, the media, while reporting on the classes, would learn how to get their facts straight—particularly during student instruction on assault weapons.

    • Assume for a moment that all guns have been banned and nobody has any!

      Visualize this: A nutjob intent on killing gains entry into a public place, or your home, armed with a knife! You try to call 911-- if you're lucky! The cops arrive in about ten minutes. You are dead in ten seconds! Think about that one...

      On the other hand, a properly trained and licensed individual with a concealed carry permit would blow the perpetrator away in less than five seconds! Or would you rather run away and lock yourself in the closest bathroom? Hmmm?

    • NRA: Nuts Running Asylums

    • Anyone who thinks "gun-free" zones are safe needs to think again. Virtually every recent massacre has occurred in such a location. For those whose advocate reenacting the 1994 gun ban/law, think again. That law was in effect when Columbine occurred.

      Arming teachers or having police on campus is a reasonable alternative. Already there is nothing to prevent any teacher from committing a massacre. Does anyone really think a sign or a law designating an area as "gun-free" is going to prevent or dissuade an individual who has already decided to commit mass murder?

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