The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
2nd Connecticut town to put armed guards in its public schools
A second Connecticut town has decided to place armed guards in all of its public schools in an effort to curb violence in light of the Sandy Hook shootings.
The Board of Education in Enfield voted 5-4 Tuesday night in favor of employing armed guards at all 11 public schools in town. It is the second town to approve such measures, after North Branford’s school board adopted a similar plan in January, Education Week reports.
Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said all the guards will be trained and the town is looking to hire retired law enforcement personnel for the jobs, ABC 40 reports. It will cost about $650,000 in the first year and $500,000 in following years to station the guards at the schools, the Journal Inquirer reports.
“We want to throw as many hurdles as we can before an armed gunman can get into a building,” Chief Sferrazza said Wednesday.
Enfield High School sophomore Nick Ide helped organize a protest against the arming of security guards on campus.
“No matter how much security you have, things can always go wrong,” he told the Journal Inquirer, adding that the armed security guards “will not create a good atmosphere.”
The committee’s other recommendations include adding buzzer systems and cameras to all schools; updating radio systems; and evaluating all exterior and interior doors, windows and locks.
Newtown Votes for Armed Guards in Elementary Schools
As the nation continues to confront the concept of "good guys with guns" in schools, armed guards are coming in force to Newtown, Connecticut. Late Thursday the Newtown Board of Education voted to request the presence of two kinds of guards inside the town's elementary schools. The vote, for now, only represents a request — it still needs to clear budget and logistical boundaries since the guards would come from the town's police resources as opposed to the school board itself. But the plan "would put two eyes and ears -- one armed, one unarmed -- at each Newtown school," reports Bronxville Patch's Davis Dunavin. The guards, officially called school resource officers (SROs), were already a fixture at all Newtown schools in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, but until this vote they were budgeted only to be a presence at middle and high Schools, according to NBC Connecticut.
From reports of the school-board meeting, concerned parents cited the Sandy Hook shootings as their reason for backing an armed-guard policy. "The only thing that stopped that guy that day was when the two Newtown police burst in the building," one parent is quoted as saying in the Patch story. "You all know that." Which sounds eerily familiar to the NRA's "good guy with a gun" talking point, even though the Obama administration has backed armed guards if schools want them. One of President Obama's 23 executive actions on gun violence includes the following order: "Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations."
The rest of the country seems to slightly favor armed guards in schools. According to a January 15 poll from CNN, 54 percent of Americans would approve of putting armed guards in every school, while 45 percent opposed. The Newtown decision comes in a week when emotional locals — including parents of the Sandy Hook victims — spoke out about gun legislation and gun-violence awareness.
2nd Connecticut town to put armed guards in its public schools
A second Connecticut town has decided to place armed guards in all of its public schools in an effort to curb violence in light of the Sandy Hook shootings.
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A report by three experts on school violence and criminal justice casts doubt on the National Rifle Association’s proposal to stop gun violence.
“We hope our critique will emphasize issues that must be considered prior to simply implementing blindly what is being proposed,” Dr. Gordon A. Crews of Marshall University.
Crews and his colleagues found there was little evidence to suggest that placing armed guards in schools would actually prevent gun violence. About 27 percent of schools in the United States already have armed or unarmed security officers. Both Columbine High School and Virginia Tech had armed security guards, but that did not prevent two deadly mass shootings. A 2011 study found schools with armed guards actually had higher rates of violence than similar schools without armed guards.
Having armed guards in schools also raises the troubling possibility that a student could get ahold of their firearms.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
LMAO! " A wish list for those who hate the 2nd Amendment"
Sounds like what he used to say about the Muslims... "They Hate Our Freedoms:!!! What a jerk!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Sounds like what he used to say about the Muslims... "They Hate Our Freedoms:!!! What a jerk!
Poor baby doesn't know how to handle freedom, it must be sad having to need big government holding your hand through life
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
I think it's funny! No matter what the topic, his response is:
"THEY HATE OUR FREEDOM"
"They" fits any one opposing the FoxSnooze Flunkies.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
So first he attacks someone who isn't there to defend themselves and then he starts making arguments that had nothing to do with Newtown, what does armor piercing bullets have to do with anything, oh yeah its just the old scary sounding argument to frighten the listeners
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
democraps/communists HATE freedom. They want the gubbermint to have more power so they can tell us all how to live, what to think, say and do. It is pretty simple. Joebx and his brother Boxofrox illustrate that each day as they espouse taking away freedom from individuals and handing it the omnipotent and very-well armed central state.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
democraps/communists HATE freedom. They want the gubbermint to have more power so they can tell us all how to live, what to think, say and do. It is pretty simple. Joebx and his brother Boxofrox illustrate that each day as they espouse taking away freedom from individuals and handing it the omnipotent and very-well armed central state.
Again with the illiterate, false caracterizations. I am sorry I can't be what you think I am and so desparetely want me to be, but I just can't. You see, I have a brain and can reason for myself, wihout trying to fit in or follow the crowd as you seem to "espouse" to. This is the best you can do, over and over and over. But IT AIN'T GONNA CHANGE JUST BECUASE YOU WANT IT TO! So, GrahamBonehead....you can say it as many times as you want, YOU'RE WRONG! Get over it clown!
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Senate Republicans today vowed to filibuster a controversial bill supporting the right not to get shot. G.O.P. leaders lambasted the bill, arguing that the right to go to school, work, or one’s home without fear of being shot was not guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. “The Second Amendment makes it very clear,” said Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming). “The right to bear arms shall not be infringed by a tiny minority’s desire not to be shot.” But according to the pollster Harland Dorrinson, of OpinionFact Polling, the right not to get shot , while controversial, is beginning to gain traction with the American electorate. “Like gay marriage, not getting shot is an idea that has taken some getting used to, but people are starting to wrap their brains around it,” he said. Poll numbers notwithstanding, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said today that he would join the effort to filibuster any not-getting-shot-related bill: “The only way we Republicans can protect our democracy is by preventing a vote.”
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
LMAO the right not to be shot, can you also have a right not to be insulted by eliminating the 1st amendment.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
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