Spoons and forks should be banned too,,,

They make fat people...

wheelrite wrote:

I graduated in 2002 from a school in Washington State. We had an armed cop on duty at all times and it was uncanny how much crime he prevented. At that time, the Russians and hispanics hated each other and would often bring weapons to school. In the years that I was there, he was also instrumental in some major drug busts on the school's campus. Sure, a lot could have happened regardless of his presence, but his presence was instrumental in preventing a lot from going down and who knows what might have been.

As far as I know, this continues to be the practice in place. I am not sure when it started. We also wore identification tags that had to be visible at all time.

Brendan992 wrote:

frank,

In high school, I never thought about public safety and the lanyards were viewed as a huge nuisance. I actually had to pay the school district a fine because I lost my ID. Here's the thing though, any crazy person could easily make a fake lanyard and because it'd be visible, they'd be able to get in without much of a problem. You can't stop a crazy person whose hell bent on taking lives and losing their own.

Brendan992 wrote:

yeah, my kids had to wear them in high school too. there had been gang related violence, school intruders...but none of the security steps had to do with crazy random mass murderers. did help with the problems at the time.

perhaps sometimes the end justifies the means, but sometimes I am a purist/absolutist when it comes to the bigger picture.

frankj1 wrote:

So if we want world peace, we should let Iran have nukes?

Brewha wrote:

Sure, as long as they aren't allowed to own assault rifles.

DadZilla3 wrote:

So if we want world peace, we should let Iran have nukes?

Brewha wrote:

Is that what a 'balance of power' is?

Brewha wrote:

Brewha, I really do like you dude, and I think for the most part you are extremely intelligent, but really? Only an off the wall liberal mind could come up such an illogical analogy.

dpnewell wrote:

It's not lacking of logic. You just don't like the conclusion/inference. Actually, you have to agree that the comment is pretty clever and actually funny (if you have a sense of humor like mine). It's got nothing to do with liberal v. conservative. Sometimes a joke is ... just a joke.

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

rfenst wrote:

this isn't about restricting citizens from owning guns or not, it's about the NRA telling the gov't to spend money on training and placing military/police personnel in schools and if that is contrary to NRA members fear of a tyrannical gov't...kinda about that.

Did your son make it home?

Frank

frankj1 wrote:

It doesn't have to be Federal. Some school districts are already doing this since Newtown.

borndead1 wrote:

Nah, it's just a popular liberal talking point.

DadZilla3 wrote:

it's cool to hate the NRA now.... 😟

DrafterX wrote: