How about some kudos for the NRA
by Charles, Friday, December 21, 2012, 11:00 (4358 days ago)
They are standing their ground on new gun legislation. Time for an attaboy after all of the skepticism.
YES!! We need local solutions to school security.
by Rob Leahy , Prescott, Arizona, Friday, December 21, 2012, 11:25 (4358 days ago) @ Charles
I think it could start right away, if there is the WILL TO MAKE IT HAPPEN>
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YES!! We need local solutions to school security.
by Charles, Friday, December 21, 2012, 11:36 (4358 days ago) @ Rob Leahy
The problem is going to be the funding. Cities, states and school districts are up against the wall with their finances. It will take the Feds to pony up. Looks like Barack is bound and determined to stimulate the economy with fresh printed dollars, so this is a better place than were most of it gets wasted.
Don't hold your breath, for this is to simple and logical solution to ever be implemented by our goverment. They specialize on spending money on things that don't work.
Funding? I see very little need for funding MOSt all CWP
by Rob Leahy , Prescott, Arizona, Friday, December 21, 2012, 11:43 (4358 days ago) @ Charles
instructors I have spoken to will volunteer to teach classes. the NRA has stepped up. I KNOW we have lots of folks that could and will if asked. I think it would be a positive thing to have more parents and grand parents around our schools. Maybe damp down some of the stupidity that goes on.
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GUN CONTROL is expensive too - spend our tax dollars
by stonewalrus, Friday, December 21, 2012, 15:03 (4358 days ago) @ Rob Leahy
On something that will work - security. Look at Canada's failed debacle.
Funding? I see very little need for funding MOSt all CWP
by Charles, Friday, December 21, 2012, 15:32 (4358 days ago) @ Rob Leahy
I do not believe the NRA was talking about volunteer security, but a force of full time professionals.
School boards would gag at the notion of a quickly trained volunteer force. The potential for liability would be staggering. The risk would be so high no school boards would take it.
We will or we won't...there is always an excuse to fail.
by Rob Leahy , Prescott, Arizona, Friday, December 21, 2012, 16:29 (4357 days ago) @ Charles
I think these school and the feds need to realize the liability that they operate under by insisting on the removal of proven security measures...
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For schools that can't afford it
by stonewalrus, Friday, December 21, 2012, 13:28 (4358 days ago) @ Charles
They could put someone on staff through the training. A lot of schools have umpteen vice principals.
ABSOLUTELY - we spend billions on fluff at schoolß
by stonewalrus, Friday, December 21, 2012, 11:35 (4358 days ago) @ Charles
It's time to be thinking security. Scares me what ideas the CT wacko could be giving to other people, including terrorists. There will always be evil in this world, we need to be sure the good guys are armed to defend it!
I admit that I was wrong and I am happy with OUR
by Hobie , Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Friday, December 21, 2012, 15:50 (4358 days ago) @ Charles
association's statement. I am for that.
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Sincerely,
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How about some kudos for the NRA
by bpjon, Friday, December 21, 2012, 17:51 (4357 days ago) @ Charles
I renewed my membership today, specifically for that reason.
I am pleased with the NRA ideas. I've also heard them
by Cherokee , Medina, Ohio, Friday, December 21, 2012, 19:29 (4357 days ago) @ Charles
elsewhere. Replace some of those grief people with armed securty people. We got along just fine in my day without people to mother me thru a challenge a school.
Funding won't be the problem
by Catoosa, Friday, December 21, 2012, 21:19 (4357 days ago) @ Charles
The problem will not be funding, or liability. or any other excuse that anyone can think of. The problem with NRA's plan will be ATTITUDE! The attitude of the media, the political elite class, and those placard-waving cretins that the cameras and microphones lovingly followed for as long as they could be seen and heard. All those people hate the NRA and what it stands for, as well as anyone who does not think like they do, and anything proposed or espoused by the NRA will be met only with contempt and ridicule from them.
I almost threw up on my keyboard watching that. LaPierre stood there almost pleading for some small scrap of understanding and consideration of a practical, well-thought-out plan of action, and was met only with scorn and contempt from the audience. I am afraid we must recognize, finally, that we are hated by many people in our own country for what we believe in, and we are on the way to becoming an oppressed minority in the nation that was built by folks like us.
Giving up ain't in my makeup, so I guess it's fight however we have to even if there's not much hope. That attitude got my ancestors run out of Scotland in the 1600s, but this time there is no "new world" where we can go seeking the freedom lost to us here.