VA Governor Bob McDonald: "School officials need to be strapped"

[Pool_Shark]

They should just put snipers on every roof and cameras with little guns underneath in every classroom. Maybe make bulletproof vest part of the uniform it'd be cool cause the kids would look swole.

 

[the cac mamba]

This can only lead to a higher body count, imo. Once its common knowledge that faculty/staff are packing........ wouldn't the shooters just be more strategical? Killing the staff on sight. Working in groups. Shooting windows out, tossing grenades, pipe bombs etc.
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fukk no. i mean if you really think about it, walking into a school where you know your the only one with a gun, just walkin around pickin people off is no comparison to planning out that kind of attack. plus, you can tell that these dudes dont have the heart. you think they woulda had the nuts to do this shyt if they knew there was even one person with a gun there? i dont

imo arming teachers is a terrible idea but im not against a couple armed guards. and fukk it, if a teacher wants to strap up then maybe have a few of them carry as well

 

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Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School
By Zack Beauchamp on Dec 19, 2012 at 2:30 pm

Victoria Soto, 27-year-old teacher killed while protecting her students.
If there were fewer women and more “male aggression” in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre there never would have taken place, according to a contribution to a leading conservative magazine.
National Review, whose in-house editorial suggested Newtown was the price of the Second Amendment, published a piece on Wednesday from anti-feminist Charlotte Allen suggesting the reason the shooter was able to kill so many students was because Newtown was a “feminized setting:”
There was not a single adult male on the school premises when the shooting occurred. In this school of 450 students, a sizeable number of whom were undoubtedly 11- and 12-year-old boys (it was a K–6 school), all the personnel — the teachers, the principal, the assistant principal, the school psychologist, the “reading specialist” — were female. There didn’t even seem to be a male janitor to heave his bucket at Adam Lanza’s knees. Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass-murderers. The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, seemed to have performed bravely. According to reports, she activated the school’s public-address system and also lunged at Lanza, before he shot her to death. Some of the teachers managed to save all or some of their charges by rushing them into closets or bathrooms. But in general, a feminized setting is a setting in which helpless passivity is the norm. Male aggression can be a good thing, as in protecting the weak — but it has been forced out of the culture of elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel. Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high-school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza.
Via Jessica Valenti, who notes that this is extraordinarily “disrespectful to the female teachers and staff at Sandy Hook. Allen mentions their heroism as an anomalous aside rather than exceptional bravery that saved lives. The bravery of the women in Newtown – principal Dawn Hochsprung and psychologist Mary Sherlach who rushed the shooter before being killed, teacher Victoria Soto who died protecting her students, Kaitlin Roig and Abbey Clements who hid their students and calmed them – is remarkable.”
Allen went on to blame Lanza’s mother, saying “You simply can’t give a non-working, non-school-enrolled 20-year-old man free range of your home, much less your cache of weapons…Unfortunately, the idea of being an ‘adult’ and a ‘man’ once one has reached physical maturity seems to have faded out of our coddling culture.”

Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School | ThinkProgress

 

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Congressman Calls For Arming Kindergartners
Dec. 19, 2012

Congressman Louie Gohmert is being roundly criticized today for controversial comments in which he suggests that future school shootings could be prevented if children were allowed to carry guns in schools.
The Texas Republican was interviewed by a local TV news station this morning about the issue of gun violence in schools, and he wasted no time laying the blame at the feet of "godless government bureaucrats" who prevent children from defending themselves with firearms.
"I think its time to finally have a national conversation about gun policy. Too many children are needlessly being killed in mass shootings, and it doesn't take an idiot to see why."
"Mass murderers are targeting the only segment of our population that is not legally allowed to defend themselves with firearms - children. If these young Americans were allowed to open carry, they could neutralize the shooter before he even walks in the door. It's a national disgrace that we leave them defenseless."
"Children may not be excellent marksmen. But if we give them small, easy-to-use handguns painted with Disney characters, for example, I'm sure they could do the job."
Guns For Tots
Congressman Gohmert has a history of making controversial statements. In the aftermath of the Aurora movie theater shootings he blamed the lack of "Judeo-Christian Values" for the tragedy, and suggested if more people in the theater had been armed they could have prevented the disaster. And just last week he suggested teachers should be allowed to bring guns to school for the same purpose.
But the idea of letting young elementary-aged school children carry lethal firearms is a radical new departure, even for the extremely radical Gohmert. But in his comments the congressman seemed sincere, and challenged President Obama to move on the issue of gun control:
"President Obama I hope you're listening to this. Your communist gun-control policies are depriving patriotic young Americans of the tools they need to defend themselves against heavily-armed lunatic shooters."
"I'm calling for an immediate executive order allowing children as young as 4 years old to carry handguns at school. Arming our young ones is our only hope to stop this senseless violence."
The Obama administration officially has no comment on Gohmert's proposal, but the idea already has 65 Republican supporters in Congress.

 

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Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School | ThinkProgress

 

[SuikodenII]

I swear we are among the dumbest states.........

 

[bewitched]

I bet the thought of teachers carrying guns never entered his psyche until this incident. What a dumb ass idea from an highly elected official.

 

[jackswstd]

If I was a teacher I would not want to have a gun. Did these muthafukkers forget the shyt teachers have to put up with from other people's kids, and you wanna arm them? Good luck with that.