I don't get all the resistance to putting a cop in schools

[libdem4life]

173. We don't. The Gun mega-industry will pay...count on it.

That will be their only hope against the Clint Eastwood cold-dead-hands solution...it will just take a whole lot longer. They have been allowed to run amok because there was no "tipping point" situation and because there are a lot of good citizens with legally registered firearms involved, as well.

Now, different story. It will change, and none of us will like parts of it. We are justifiably outraged at the carnage, yet pisssed by not only what it says about us as a society...through no fault of our own, but the remedies that will be required.

More than once, I was almost late for flights...race to the front of the line, apologize, get my ticket and race to the plane just as they were closing the door. That was a privilege, we found out, not a right. So now I have to go two hours early, stand in a long line, practically strip down, go through metal detectors and a hand frisking, wear a non-underwire bra so I won't trigger the sensor and get excessively fondled. Kids have to go through it too, and they're not traumatized that I know of.

Yeah, I liked the old days better. But we had an enormous tragedy, and we are grateful there hasn't been another. Does that mean that no hijackers ever tried or wanted to get on a plane? Do we know how many got caught first? No. But the cards are now seriously stacked much heavily against them...and they know it.

Same with the elementary schools. Sad, but necessary. And anyone that doesn't currently have a K-3rd grade child or grandchild that would have their sensibilities so upset by visions of Nazis and Police State paranoia, and would upset their kids, maybe the public schools have grown beyond your ideas and needs. So, homeschooling or a charter school is a good option. The public school system will still support you.

Personally, if I were the parent of a 1st grader and my school was not seriously discussing how to prevent the what used to be unthinkable, but is now a fresh terror and a feeling of helplessness in our minds, and allowing me, as a parent to participate in that discussion, I'd be making different arrangements for my child.