Trump said he would have advised against allowing teachers to arm themselves, if only because of liability concerns. In the long run, it could have been cheaper and safer to hire security or off-duty police, he said.Yeah--just like at Columbine and Virginia Tech!
If what he says is true, the same could be said for society in general--it will be cheaper and safer if we disarm everyone and leave their protection to paid "Only Ones." You'd just lose your gun in a cafeteria fight anyway.
It must be true, because Ken Trump is a "school safety expert." Just ask him.
Funny--in his long "love me" list of triumphs and accomplishments, I don't see any schools where he is credited with either deterring an attack from happening or stopping one in progress. That's some "credibility," some "cutting edge" expertise.
So--Ken--if you don't believe private citizens are competent to provide for their own defense, work with me here on an illustration. Say a psycho attacker storms into your office and starts shooting at you, your co-workers, your clients--and none of your would be rescuers (hell of a thing for a man to wish for) are around--in your expert opinion, would you blubber and plead or just shriek and howl like a terrified animal...?
[Via Tony G]
UPDATE: A Keyboard and a .45 praises an administrator who did not consult Ken first.
Ahh, I was too late in sending this story in! Oh, well.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Ken blubbering, etc, you left one thing out.
Ken would wet himself. Those types ALWAYS wet themselves.
would you blubber and plead or just shriek and howl like a terrified animal...?
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would you blubber and plead, shriek and whine like a terrified anti-gunner pro-victim advocates...?
Local college police are training with paintball in an abandoned high school building so they'll be able to handle the next Virginia Tech.
ReplyDeleteA door at Norris Hall at Tech was unlocked when police arrived, but they did not discover that and use it to rush in and rescue people. Most of the students were already dead by the time they got there. Cho was done in what, five minutes? The shooting stopped when he killed himself, perhaps to prevent police from having that power over him. Cops were still trying to reach the room.
STILL no mention of decriminalizing campus carry.
Somewhere this week, a teenage girl barricaded herself in her house and would not come out. She fired out the window apparently randomly. Police did not tear-gas her, play recordings of rabbits being killed (like at Waco) to unnerve her or spend a lot of time with a psychologist negotiating what the problem was and how it could be solved. They forced their way in and shot her dead.
A semi-homeless guy here did the same promiscuous shooting thing. They took his gun. Next night, he did it again. They too THAT gun. A week later, he killed an elderly lady walking her dog... with a knife.
Nowhere is safe, unless we have the means to make it so.
Don't ask permission.
Now that my son is at a public school (ed better than you think for some things), he cannot defend himself. Neither are my wife and I allowed to carry when we visit. Would I break the law??? Don't ask don't tell.
ReplyDeleteHe's in ROTC (something we couldn't supply). They no longer use actual military weaponry. The rifle team uses air rifles. Not much of a deterrent eh?
In my brother's day, they had at school all the then current mil stuff. They trained andwe had most at home too.
The ROTC people at VTech wanted to go to their arsenal (Gasp. Actual arms!). They couldn't.
We have devised a plan if anything happens at my son's school. Again, don't ask, don't tell.
. . . would you blubber and plead or just shriek and howl like a terrified animal...?
ReplyDeleteNow David, be fair. An expert like Ken can undoubtedly do both at the same time.
At their website it reads "Prevent and manage (!) school violence." Why is manage required? Did prevention fail? My wife says, "Manage is plan B."
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