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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
I have to wonder why you're against protecting children. The only solution I keep reading is to slow down the killer. Given the average response time for Law Enforcement is 12 minutes how many casualties are acceptable?
It is much more cost effective to harden the schools. That doesn't mean barbed wire and Dobermans. That means taking measures like a few schools have done. There is a fantastic plan implemented by a school in Indiana that stops a killer from accessing children. Florida has implemented the Guardian program in 60% of the schools so far. And of course, as we saw at Greenwood Mall recently, a good Samaritan citizen, armed and trained, stopped the killer in 15 seconds.
What is really the agenda then? Stop killers in their tracks and protect innocent people or disarm law abiding citizens. Those are the two choices.
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I said in 2 previous posts that I liked the IDEA of hardening schools. I also said previously that I did NOT believe that a SIGNIFICANT number of schools will EVER be hardened in any SIGNIFICANT way. That is because most communities and states will NOT do it because it will raise TAXES. And people in the upper tax brackets that have significant property do not ALLOW property taxes or other taxes to go up. Try getting a tax increase here in TV Land !
Just do this thought experiment.........suppose someone is crazy and determined to be a mass murderer. And they just read a newspaper article that stated that EVERY LAST school in the US was hardened like the one in Indiana. Or even that the school in his community was hardened. So, imagine what he might think and come up with in his demented brain.............gee wizz, he thinks I should forget schools and plan for killing in a church or concert or ANY place where there is a bunch of people.......hhhyyyymmm maybe the football games or baseball.......they are NOT hardened.
Think about it - no matter what event the demented shooter chooses the ONE thing that is constant is that he will take the fastest shooting, LONG RANGE, big magazine, firearm that he can procure. It might have a flash suppressor of even a silencer or even a Bump-stop attachment. But, if he is planning it out well (in a demented way)......the firearm he takes will NOT be a pistol, except maybe as a backup!
I hate to say this, but I think that this has been laid out with about the highest logical quality that would make even Dr. Spock (of Star Trek fame) happy .....as a moonbeam from heaven!