Lockout Casualty Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Or, you could just ban schools. You'd never have a school shooting again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovech Trick Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 inb4 police officer shoots unarmed student on "accident" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Ban humans. Defeat crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 We'll need super powerful armed robots to enforce that though. For safety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Damn why didn't I think of that. What about instead of more guns we just get bigger guns. I mean a security guard with a rocket propelled grenade launcher would make me think twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Ah NRA, what would we do without you. Obviously the answer to increasing safety is "Well, let's have someone stand guard with a gun." ASSUMING this works, which is a huge assumption, then people will just target another place with low security (ie: churches, malls, hospitals, grocery stores, etc). The NRA won't be happy until every place is guarded with a gun. I mean, obviously that's the answer. I would feel warm and fuzzy knowing that some ... is watching over me and my famiy's safety while I get my hair cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Ah NRA, what would we do without you. Obviously the answer to increasing safety is "Well, let's have someone stand guard with a gun." ASSUMING this works, which is a huge assumption, then people will just target another place with low security (ie: churches, malls, hospitals, grocery stores, etc). The NRA won't be happy until every place is guarded with a gun. I mean, obviously that's the answer. I would feel warm and fuzzy knowing that some ... is watching over me and my famiy's safety while I get my hair cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Or, you could just ban schools. You'd never have a school shooting again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etsen3 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Sad that people are getting so paranoid. Many schools there already have metal detectors and you can now buy bulletproof backpacks. I could see this being a good idea in the rough areas of town, but then again those areas probably have enough police presence already. No one should have to go to a school with airport-style security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Sad that people are getting so paranoid. Many schools there already have metal detectors and you can now buy bulletproof backpacks. I could see this being a good idea in the rough areas of town, but then again those areas probably have enough police presence already. No one should have to go to a school with airport-style security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 It's all fear. Everyone is so scared of everyone else. Scared you might get shot, or robbed or raped at any corner. Scared the government is plotting to steal your freedoms. Scared of everything. It's sick, the states is a diseased nation. These are all just symptoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 The NRA wouldn't because they consist of law abiding citizens, and surely they logically shouldn't be punished for criminal actions nor short sighted liberal wet dreams that they can tax something out of existence. The prevalence of bullet and guns will still remain in the hands of people committing crimes due to a very prominent black market (which exists even with guns being legal and bullets being cheap) flourishing. Obviously this is something you overlooked due to a rather mundane thought process that raising taxes or banning things inherently makes law breakers follow the law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Well it's safe to say you completely missed the point of my comment, which if you hadn't rushed to pass judgement on my thought process, you'd have seen had to do with the NRA's suggestion of stationing an armed guard at every school. Maybe the costs of such an undertaking have eluded your thought process as they have the NRA's? Yes, I think that's quite more likely than your suggestion my thought process is... mundane. Are all right wingers on this forum insulting toward people they don't agree with? Seems like a trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Where's Wellwood Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 The chief executive of the National Rifle Association called on the U.S. Congress Friday to act immediately to put armed police officers in schools. Wayne Lapierre made that call as he sought to defend gun owners' rights in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting that left 20 students and six adults dead. The gunman in the massacre also killed his mother before he took his own life at the school. Lapierre called for the creation of a national plan to protect schools. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," Lapierre told reporters in Washington, D.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 You might wanna read the post above yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 How does someone else's comment relate to me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inane Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Actually it's an overreaction because people pay so much attention to the media extremely intensified scrutiny that it placates to knee jerk, so when a shooting happens, or a terrorist attack happens, they need to barricade their homes, strip people of their rights giving it to government to protect them, and so forth. These are the worst possible reactions. And it's ridiculous that rights must be fought to justify when things like this occur, it should be the other way around where rights are emphasised. This is how it's been primarily in the western world, and since I don't see the media going anywhere, get used to more of it. The notion of equipping teachers with guns is that teachers are already highly scrutinized and given heavy background checks to be able to teach, so the likelihood of passing for a gun background is high. Giving a gun to teachers would not be like the One Ring where they're suddenly corrupted by it to do bad things. And while I'm not against, say, an officer or guard who is obviously screened for weapon use, being there, there to me are rather innate problems with each layer of security that gets added: 1) This doesn't encourage students to be confident and learn. It encourages them to be scared of the boogeyman and of each other, as well as accepting of government to keep them safe when government cannot assure that, and when the cost of this level of "safety" that cannot be achieved is one's freedoms. 2) The financial burden is allocated to education which already is amongst the first for budget cuts.. the purpose of education is not to be locked down but instead to learn. They wouldn't cut the armed officer/guard there, they'd cut teachers. This is counter-productive, again, to education. Before even equipping teachers with guns I'd simply suggest increasing awareness of who is on campus, doing very little at all since school shootings, while highly televised and intensely covered, are still not common enough to justify paranoia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 You suggested that I didn't address the guards portion of the topic.. in the post above yours, that's what most of it was about. You should have read the post itself and it's contents rather than solely the name of the person I was quoting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Fatigue Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 The chief executive of the National Rifle Association called on the U.S. Congress Friday to act immediately to put armed police officers in schools. Wayne Lapierre made that call as he sought to defend gun owners' rights in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting that left 20 students and six adults dead. The gunman in the massacre also killed his mother before he took his own life at the school. Lapierre called for the creation of a national plan to protect schools. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," Lapierre told reporters in Washington, D.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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