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KC5AV wrote: How can 51.65% of the people answering that poll not understand that guns are already in schools?

That's easy. They were educated by the same folks who think that "Gun Free Zone" signs at the door will prevent violence in the future, despite overwhelming evidence that they have never done so in the past.

Greybeard wrote:also lifted from Law Dog's blog (http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/):

article in the regional newspaper:

By Linda Stewart
For the Times Record News
Friday, August 15, 2008

VERNON (Special) —

“I think making schools gun-free zones was one of the stupidest things ever done on earth,” Thweatt said.

This is one of the smartest things I've heard from an educational administrator in decades.

anygunanywhere wrote:I stopped by Lawdog Files.

He suggested we email Mr. Thweatt of the Harrold School District and offer him our support.

We can do this.

I already did.

These people are individuals of vision. History is marked by people like these and they are truly rare and show themselves in few places. Harrold is a blessed place to have these people.

This step will do more to raise our cause than any other action we could take.

Anygunanywhere

Please be so kind as to share Mr. Thweatt's email address so the rest of us can send him our support.

WildBill wrote:How do you keep the identity of armed staff members confidential, so that they do not become "first targets?"

Schools already deal pretty well with multiple privacy and confidentiality issues, and this one wouldn't be hard at all. Simply create a policy that:

1. Requires teachers who want to carry not to share that information with anyone else, including staff.
2. Requires all staff members to respond to all inquiries on their participation or the participation of others with "School policy requires that I neither confirm nor deny anyone's participation or non participation in the CHL program, including my own."
3. Centralizes applications for the program and issuance of authorization with one senior administrator and one backup, both of whom are forbidden to share
that information with anyone except the other program participants (need for friend or foe ID during an incident) and as required by law.

The "first target" issue would be a concern if only one or 2 folks participated. Multiple teachers in different assignments in different parts of the campus at any given time make for a pretty difficult preemptive strike scenario. That's why this approach is so much more elegant than 1 armed guard at the main entrance who can easily be taken out first with a little planning.

Kudos to the first school district leadership I'm aware of that has had the courage to use logic on the facts and arrive at the obvious conclusion instead of repeating the same failed strategies over and over while expecting a different result.