March 29, 2013
More progress toward actually keeping kids safer in schools is being made in Florida.
The bill's co-sponsor, Representative Dennis Baxley 'gets it'. "I want my children safe and in our overwhelming desire to protect our children with gun free zones we have inadvertently made them the ideal sterile target for a madman and the unwillingness of people to confront that reality is unacceptable." Here's someone applying "common sense" and "reason" to solve the reality of the problem that gun control zealots have created in our schools.
Representative Ronald Renuart also gets it. He argued that 'parents worried about having guns in the schools "are the same parents that take their children into banks, shopping malls where there's often somebody less trained and less screened to carry that weapon." '
Representative Richard Stark clearly doesn't get it. He 'warned against a knee jerk reaction after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead in Newton, Connecticut last year.
"Sometimes you have to step back a little bit before you make a decision of this magnitude," the Democrat from Weston said. "Guns are very powerful. It's not BB guns." '
A few comments:
Really, Stark? This is a knee-jerk reaction? This Florida bill is being proposed 100+ days after Sandy Hook, unlike the knee-jerk reactions of the outspoken gun control advocating zealots (you can read that as "crazies" here) taken in the hours, days and weeks immediately following that tragic event that are being aggressively pushed by agenda seekers using uncountable millions of dollars of taxpayer money. These people are almost exclusively your fellow Democrats in state and federal legislatures. Has Stark warned any of those politicians the dangers of their knee-jerk reactions?
How does Stark feel about his fellow Florida Democratic Senator Audrey Gibson and her outlandish proposal to require 2-hour "anger management" training for all firearms and ammunition purposes? Is that proposal a knee-jerk or one that has been well thought through? Is there ANY reasonable, rational person who supports this?
Yes, Stark, "guns are very powerful". That's the POINT! Guns are already in our schools - in the hands of mass murderers! The only way to oppose that kind of force is with equivalent force. This article points out "Bill sponsor Republican Rep. Greg Steube cited a 2002 Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education study that said most school shootings were stopped by someone other than law enforcement and most incidents lasted 15 minutes or less." It was released this week that the 26 victims at Sandy Hook lost their lives in approx. 5 minutes. What would Stark have us do, wait for the good guys who are more than 5 minutes away? That thinking is so seriously flawed that it cannot reasonably be called "common sense".
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/29/florida-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-allow-arming-school-employees/
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Texas too: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2264066219001/texas-school-superintendants-support-arming-staff-members/
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May 29, 2013
From this article it appears Texas already allows concealed carry in schools where school boards allow it but their lawmakers are moving to formalize an "armed marshall" role within schools that includes a firearm in an accessible lock box.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/24/Texas-Lawmakers-Pass-Legislation-To-Train-Teachers-To-Be-Armed-Marshals
Related blogs:
http://us2ndamendment.blogspot.com/2013/03/north-carolina-south-dakota-allow.html
http://us2ndamendment.blogspot.com/2013/03/florida-state-senator-audrey-gibson.html
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