Thousands - if not millions - of parents are thinking today that they wished there was some way they could stay at home and home school their kids - at least until high school. Many will decide to do so. Most unfortunately will not , or simply cannot. Those that must keep their kids in public schools should demand that their school district board members approve some form of armed PROTECTION at the earliest possible date. No hand-ringing for 2 years over the issue - just get it done.
I can't tell you how many times today I was assured by some talking head on FOX, or CNN that public schools are doing EVERYTHING possible to protect our children. That is pure Buffalo Sinew - and they know it, but they are stuck in their chosen version of reality.
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- Sat Dec 15, 2012 5:50 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Well Here We Go
- Replies: 105
- Views: 14130
- Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:56 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Well Here We Go
- Replies: 105
- Views: 14130
Re: Well Here We Go
At the moment parents, grandparents, and educators across the nation are in a state of shock over this tragedy in particular, and the seemingly never ending and escalating array of similar tragedies.
Sanctimonious commentary by "experts", media commentators, and school officials as to the low statistical probabilities of a similar tragedy occuring in any given elementary school will fall upon deaf ears.
Probabilities, permutations, computations aside - the reality is that such a tragedy either WILL ...or WILL NOT happen at another elementary school, theater, or shopping center.
Viewed from a REAL WORLD perspective, the odds that X, Y, or Z "WILL... or WILL NOT " occur comprises a universe of only TWO possible outcomes.....translating into a 50/50 chance. Not very reassuring to most of us - and particularly not comforting to 5-6 year old kids.
For now....... the adults are angry that our children are not adequately protected in public schools, and we are searching for any viable solution.
Monday morning....... our children may not be wanting to go to their respective elementary schools.
The one's that do go to school Monday will have every right to ask their parents and teachers....." How are YOU going to PROTECT ME from bad people TODAY ? "
Our children deserve a serious response accompanied by prompt action. They are not interested in hearing protracted discourse over gun control, or the state of our mental healthcare system.
They only ask that we - their parents, educators - PROTECT THEM...TODAY.
Sanctimonious commentary by "experts", media commentators, and school officials as to the low statistical probabilities of a similar tragedy occuring in any given elementary school will fall upon deaf ears.
Probabilities, permutations, computations aside - the reality is that such a tragedy either WILL ...or WILL NOT happen at another elementary school, theater, or shopping center.
Viewed from a REAL WORLD perspective, the odds that X, Y, or Z "WILL... or WILL NOT " occur comprises a universe of only TWO possible outcomes.....translating into a 50/50 chance. Not very reassuring to most of us - and particularly not comforting to 5-6 year old kids.
For now....... the adults are angry that our children are not adequately protected in public schools, and we are searching for any viable solution.
Monday morning....... our children may not be wanting to go to their respective elementary schools.
The one's that do go to school Monday will have every right to ask their parents and teachers....." How are YOU going to PROTECT ME from bad people TODAY ? "
Our children deserve a serious response accompanied by prompt action. They are not interested in hearing protracted discourse over gun control, or the state of our mental healthcare system.
They only ask that we - their parents, educators - PROTECT THEM...TODAY.
- Sat Dec 15, 2012 11:55 am
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Well Here We Go
- Replies: 105
- Views: 14130
Re: Well Here We Go
The utter futility of gun control laws, and discussions regarding mental illness offer little hope of ever preventing such tragedies. We are AT WAR with manifestations of EVIL - and we have no viable choice other than to DEFEND against the threat. As long a sheep mentality overrides our natural self defense instincts that reside within our DNA such tragedies will be repeated. After all we are not cattle - we are predatory by nature. We possess canine teeth in addition to our mandibles for a reason.
As long as people persist in engaging in helpless "grazing" behavior they will remain vunerable to predation. As long as we are satisfied having our children being protected by thin "feel-good" layers of security while intrusting our safety to LEO's positioned at the far end of a 911 call we exhibit the pathology of insanity.
Even more agregious is the consignment of our most helpless children to an UNPROTECTED environment 7 hours a day, 5 days a week .
Hopefully upcoming school board meetings across the nation will be filled with parents demanding tangible protection for our children.
We must not allow this tragedy to be a catalyst for further stupidity focused on banning guns, magazines, and establishing more GFZ's.
The enormity of this tragedy was PREVENTABLE with MULTIPLE LAYERS of security, THE ABILITY TO USE DEADLY FORCE as a last resort being one layer.
My wife and I plan to attend our grandchildren's Christmas music performance next Friday in Edgewood Village (Ft Worth). I would like to see policies in place in Texas by then requiring parents to provide a guest list to the office, that would be compared to I.D.'s at the door. I think every public school district should set the goal of having AT THE VERY LEAST one police officer assigned to every school effective Monday morning. In lieu of that authorize, and assign at least one armed CHL staff member to security detail. That would be a step in the RIGHT DIRECTION to seriously address the existing vunerability of our children while their safety is entrusted to the care of school officials.
I don't expect the superintendent of this particular CT school district to accept any responsibility for failing to DEFEND those 20 children - but that is where the RESPONSIBILITY ultimately resides. Unfortunately I expect the 2A and the NRA to reap the bulk of the blame in a stampede for further gun restrictions upon the law-abiding armed citizens who can actually prevent such tragedies.
I just heard former NYC Mayor Rudy Guliani opine that even an armed policeman AT THE DOOR might not have stopped this murderer. That is conceivably possible I suppose - assuming that was the ONLY layer of DEFENSE in place. TWO additional layers should be ARMED administrators, and TEACHERS.
As long as people persist in engaging in helpless "grazing" behavior they will remain vunerable to predation. As long as we are satisfied having our children being protected by thin "feel-good" layers of security while intrusting our safety to LEO's positioned at the far end of a 911 call we exhibit the pathology of insanity.
Even more agregious is the consignment of our most helpless children to an UNPROTECTED environment 7 hours a day, 5 days a week .
Hopefully upcoming school board meetings across the nation will be filled with parents demanding tangible protection for our children.
We must not allow this tragedy to be a catalyst for further stupidity focused on banning guns, magazines, and establishing more GFZ's.
The enormity of this tragedy was PREVENTABLE with MULTIPLE LAYERS of security, THE ABILITY TO USE DEADLY FORCE as a last resort being one layer.
My wife and I plan to attend our grandchildren's Christmas music performance next Friday in Edgewood Village (Ft Worth). I would like to see policies in place in Texas by then requiring parents to provide a guest list to the office, that would be compared to I.D.'s at the door. I think every public school district should set the goal of having AT THE VERY LEAST one police officer assigned to every school effective Monday morning. In lieu of that authorize, and assign at least one armed CHL staff member to security detail. That would be a step in the RIGHT DIRECTION to seriously address the existing vunerability of our children while their safety is entrusted to the care of school officials.
I don't expect the superintendent of this particular CT school district to accept any responsibility for failing to DEFEND those 20 children - but that is where the RESPONSIBILITY ultimately resides. Unfortunately I expect the 2A and the NRA to reap the bulk of the blame in a stampede for further gun restrictions upon the law-abiding armed citizens who can actually prevent such tragedies.
I just heard former NYC Mayor Rudy Guliani opine that even an armed policeman AT THE DOOR might not have stopped this murderer. That is conceivably possible I suppose - assuming that was the ONLY layer of DEFENSE in place. TWO additional layers should be ARMED administrators, and TEACHERS.