When I have kids, they will obviously not be attending school in Utah or potentially South Carolina anytime soon.
I hope this does not pass. Guns and children do not and should not mix. Providing a healthy environment for children and addressing those that need emotional help before they get to the point of a shoot down is all we need.
All peoples need emotional help bar none. Criminals and children should not mix however guns keeps everybody honest and
the mix between criminals and children separate and distinct.
Cat\’s logic was the same used in Virginia, where they bragged about how safe the campus would \”feel\”, since they banned concealed carry on campus.
If it wasn\’t so sad and stupid, it would be funny.
I guess Cat would send her kids to school in DC since they have the most restrictive gun laws in the country. So restrictive, they are unconstitutional.
Remember when Florida passed concealed carry? The bad guys started targeting tourists at the airport and in rent cars. Why? People getting off an airplane can not have a concealed gun.
It was safer than picking on someone that might be able to shoot back.
Cat, your theory sounds peaceful and utopian, which is nice. But how do you propose putting it into practice effectively?
How would the determination be made between which those kids needing emotional help and those who don\’t?
At what point would a mental health professional deem the person emotionally \”healed\”? How would you be able to tell if the healing was a permanent solution? Who would be responsible for paying for the services?
Furthermore, how would we be able to predict which emotionally unwell kids were potential shooters and which were not?
I\’m not necessarily all for permitted adults having concealed weapons near or at schools, however I don\’t know of a more practical way to provide effective protection to students other than having a police officer in every classroom. And that\’s not exactly practical either.
What do Mohammad Attah, Dylan Kleebold, Colon Ferguson, Cho Seung-Hui, Eric Harris and George Hennard have in common?
Each of these terrorists chose to attack places where our government prevented honest law abiding licensed adults from legally defending themselves with the most efficient tool available.
For example, on the morning of September 11th, 2001, Barbara Olson took her Glock 9mm out of her purse and put it in the safe in her bedroom next to her Virginia carry permit before leaving to go to the airport and board that fateful flight that was driven into the Pentagon. Ms Olson did exactly what Mohammad Attah knew she would do… she obeyed the law.
There are over 5.7 million FBI certified law abiding Concealed Weapons Permit holding citizens in the U.S., only 760,000 Law Enforcement Officers in our nation. When these law abiding citizens pick up or drop off their children at their school, if they are packing a gun, they have just committed a felony when they enter school grounds… and they may not have even gotten out of their car. I’m a 53 year old adult and one of those 5.7 million law abiding citizens that also happens to be a regular continuing education student at my local tech college. I guess I’m one of those “children” that the media thinks will be carrying a gun in school.
According to Gary Kleck of the University of Florida, armed private citizens thwart more than two million crimes each year… and 99% of the time they never fire a shot (and subsequently, never make the local news). Merely the display of the concealed weapon is enough to dissuade the attacker from carrying out his intentions.
Maybe you would prefer to have your child in a school where the cops arrive 15 minutes after the shooting stops, and wait outside until they \’get permission\’ to enter the building and see if they can identify the body of the criminal from those of the victims.
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When I have kids, they will obviously not be attending school in Utah or potentially South Carolina anytime soon.
I hope this does not pass. Guns and children do not and should not mix. Providing a healthy environment for children and addressing those that need emotional help before they get to the point of a shoot down is all we need.
All peoples need emotional help bar none. Criminals and children should not mix however guns keeps everybody honest and
the mix between criminals and children separate and distinct.
Cat\’s logic was the same used in Virginia, where they bragged about how safe the campus would \”feel\”, since they banned concealed carry on campus.
If it wasn\’t so sad and stupid, it would be funny.
I guess Cat would send her kids to school in DC since they have the most restrictive gun laws in the country. So restrictive, they are unconstitutional.
Remember when Florida passed concealed carry? The bad guys started targeting tourists at the airport and in rent cars. Why? People getting off an airplane can not have a concealed gun.
It was safer than picking on someone that might be able to shoot back.
Same thing at Cat\’s \”safe\” campus.
Cat, your theory sounds peaceful and utopian, which is nice. But how do you propose putting it into practice effectively?
How would the determination be made between which those kids needing emotional help and those who don\’t?
At what point would a mental health professional deem the person emotionally \”healed\”? How would you be able to tell if the healing was a permanent solution? Who would be responsible for paying for the services?
Furthermore, how would we be able to predict which emotionally unwell kids were potential shooters and which were not?
I\’m not necessarily all for permitted adults having concealed weapons near or at schools, however I don\’t know of a more practical way to provide effective protection to students other than having a police officer in every classroom. And that\’s not exactly practical either.
Here\’s a question for Cat:
What do Mohammad Attah, Dylan Kleebold, Colon Ferguson, Cho Seung-Hui, Eric Harris and George Hennard have in common?
Each of these terrorists chose to attack places where our government prevented honest law abiding licensed adults from legally defending themselves with the most efficient tool available.
For example, on the morning of September 11th, 2001, Barbara Olson took her Glock 9mm out of her purse and put it in the safe in her bedroom next to her Virginia carry permit before leaving to go to the airport and board that fateful flight that was driven into the Pentagon. Ms Olson did exactly what Mohammad Attah knew she would do… she obeyed the law.
There are over 5.7 million FBI certified law abiding Concealed Weapons Permit holding citizens in the U.S., only 760,000 Law Enforcement Officers in our nation. When these law abiding citizens pick up or drop off their children at their school, if they are packing a gun, they have just committed a felony when they enter school grounds… and they may not have even gotten out of their car. I’m a 53 year old adult and one of those 5.7 million law abiding citizens that also happens to be a regular continuing education student at my local tech college. I guess I’m one of those “children” that the media thinks will be carrying a gun in school.
According to Gary Kleck of the University of Florida, armed private citizens thwart more than two million crimes each year… and 99% of the time they never fire a shot (and subsequently, never make the local news). Merely the display of the concealed weapon is enough to dissuade the attacker from carrying out his intentions.
Maybe you would prefer to have your child in a school where the cops arrive 15 minutes after the shooting stops, and wait outside until they \’get permission\’ to enter the building and see if they can identify the body of the criminal from those of the victims.