Democrats Push Gun Control, Refuse Armed School Guards

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Breitbart:

Appearing on MSNBC, 2016 Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, “We have millions of sick people all over the world… This is sort of unique to our country – the school shootings.”

 

Trump touts two policies to fight school shootings: more concealed carry and better mental healthcare. But the left ignores both of those prescriptions, as well as a third: additional security at schools.

 

There are approximately 135,000 public, private, and post-secondary schools in the United States. A huge number of major shootings have taken place at schools: Umpqua Community College; University of California at Santa Barbara; Santa Monica College; Sandy Hook Elementary School; Oikos College; University of Alabama in Huntsville; Northern Illinois University; Virginia Tech; Red Lake High School; Marysville Pilchuck High School; Red Lake High School; University of Arizona College of Nursing; Santana High School; Columbine High School; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Lindhurst High School; Stockton, California; the list goes on and on.

 

Certainly, with well over 100 million law-abiding American gun-owners, targeting gun owners would be significantly more difficult than protecting schools. More importantly, though President Obama scorns those who believe that more guns can prevent crime, more guns held by law-abiding, well-trained people do prevent crime. Obama should talk to his own Secret Service if he thinks otherwise.

 

Umpqua Community College had one guard on shift at a time. Unarmed. But it did notify those on campus that it was a gun free zone, just like most campuses across America. And according to retired Umpqua Community College president Joe Olson, the college decided against an armed security guard in the last few months. “We talked about that over the last year because we were concerned about safety on campus,” he said. “The campus was split 50-50. We thought we were a very safe campus, and having armed security officers on campus might change the culture.”

 

Typically, those who oppose armed guards, or arming teachers on campuses, cite idiocies like “changing the culture” or “making children uncomfortable.” Randi Weingarten, head of the National Education Association, has written, “Schools must be safe sanctuaries, not armed fortresses. Anyone who would suggest otherwise doesn’t understand that our public schools must first and foremost be places where teachers can safely educate and nurture our students.”

 

This is asinine. The only way to keep students safe is to provide security, not hope that gunmen abide by “Gun-Free Zone” signs. In Israel, in order to prevent terrorist attacks, armed guards are posted in schools routinely. That has indeed prevented terrorist attacks. When I attended a Jewish high school in Los Angeles, located next to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, administration provided heavy security – and it worked. In 1999, during the summer months of my high school term, Buford Furrow, a white supremacist with a history of mental illness, stopped by the Wiesenthal Center and wanted to shoot it up – but there was security. So he promptly motored over to the North Valley Jewish Community Center, where there were no armed guards, and proceeded to shoot five people.

 

So yes, more guns at schools would be a useful measure.

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Meanwhile, useless "leaders" want to "politicize" the issue...

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10/5/2015

Yes, That Oregon Campus Was a Gun-Free Zone

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:34 am

 

As I noted the other day, the recent Oregon shooting was in a gun-free zone — a fact omitted by Barack Obama in his admittedly “policitized” remarks on the subject:

 

Notably, the fact that the shooting happened in a “gun-free zone” — as these mass shootings almost always do — was not mentioned.

 

Leftists now claim that the campus was not actually a gun-free zone. What they ignore is that virtually everyone who might have been carrying a gun thought it was. And if everyone believes a campus is a “gun-free zone,” then guess what? It is.

Details in the extended entry.

 

http://patterico.com/2015/10/05/yes-that-oregon-campus-was-a-gun-free-zone/#more-101124