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Kalidurga

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6. I think most children are ok with seeing police officers and most of them are armed...

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 10:58 PM

Jan 2013

It might actually make some children feel safer. I don't think it will in reality make anyone safer and I think the police officer is likely to be the first casualty if someone wants to go into a school and create carnage.

What they really need to do is modify the school. The doors open in the morning to let kids in passed gun detectors. Then they need a system that people can only enter the building if they are buzzed in. Of course even this plan is flawed as it is sometimes students that do the shooting and if they want to bring a gun in, they will likely find a way. But, it can't hurt and it might help.

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Flame me if you want: My wife and I are sad to know the NRA's wet dream of "Arm Guards" in schools [View all] diabeticman Jan 2013 OP

What kind of a country do we have MannyGoldstein Jan 2013 #1

Only if the school requests it and they are professionally trained. Hopefully most schools appleannie1 Jan 2013 #2

The armed guard thing has nothing to do with the ban high count mags thing.... Honeycombe8 Jan 2013 #3

I'm kind of de-sensitized to it, as a NYC teen I went to school with metal detectors and JaneyVee Jan 2013 #4

My middle school and high school both had SROs. I never thought twice about it. Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2013 #5

I think most children are ok with seeing police officers and most of them are armed... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #6

I am against police officers in school though because it is a slippery slope JaneyVee Jan 2013 #7

I grew up in a small town Chuuku Davis Jan 2013 #8

When in Turkey and Africa In the 90s we were always a bit uncomfortable abelenkpe Jan 2013 #9

If we have to have armed guards in our schools, then let's fund them with a special SDjack Jan 2013 #10

A resource officer isn't really a police officer or "armed guard" jeff47 Jan 2013 #11

The major difference being of course that... Bonobo Jan 2013 #12

No. jeff47 Jan 2013 #13

Watch the Rachel Maddow rerun. Tarheel_Dem Jan 2013 #14

arm guards? is that anything like dress shields? HiPointDem Jan 2013 #15