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Quiz for you:
There is a call to you from the school your child attends. They have received a death threat from a note signed by a former student. Do you want a police or armed guard to be posted at the school, until the former student is found and arrested?
Yes, or No?
Let's see what others have done, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre:
*several cities in the Northeast have increased police presence at their schools, including NYC, under the order of the VERY liberal Mayor Bloomberg.
*meanwhile, the VERY conservative Sheriff Joe Arpaio in AZ, has done the same, using his armed and trained volunteers, as well as his deputies.
*in LA, the very liberal Mayor has also requested additional police presence, at all their schools.
I believe we have a consensus here - both liberals and conservatives, both want armed police or guard presence, at their schools. Has this been used elsewhere? Yes it has!
In the 1970's, Israeli schools were being targeted by Palestinians, and in one case, by an Israeli who went unhinged.
The Israeli's put armed guards at their schools, to counter these threats. There have been no successful attacks at Israeli schools, since then.
That's 40 years+ !
When we had problems with hijacked airliners, we put air marshals (armed), onto the planes. We removed them before 9/11, but that's a subject for another thread.
I believe left and right - and everyone in the middle who's honest - will agree that when you have something valuable, you protect it. Surely, that includes our kids.
And we CAN do more to require guns be kept safely locked up, etc.
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