How many bullets does one need for self defense?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

94. I love the merely Eleanors38

it still takes time to reload no?

When was the last time you walked through a school? Here in Florida, at least in Palm Beach Cty, they are sprawling affairs with numerous entrances and exits. It would take a platoon to guard the average high school here. The elementary and middle schools are almost as bad. One estimate was $6 billion a year to guard all the nation's schools adequately. But I think that was based on the old style of of one building with multiple floors. The problem with using "trusted staff" is that in an emergency the gun would have to first be removed from it's locked storage facility. Not terribly efficient. There is also the issue of placing the onus on someone who doesn't want it. For some reason gun owners all seem to think they could shoot and kill someone without any qualms. I tend to doubt that. I think most people would have a real problem actually pulling the trigger...certainly the people who have devoted their lives to teaching children would. So I think any attempt to 'guard' the schools would have to be carried out by professionals. Even then, we have the Ft. Hood experience which clearly demonstrates that one determined killer can take out any number of people while surrounded by professionals.

The high schools here have a police officer assigned to them, but one officer is fairy useless. My daughter was outside for lunch one day when a bullet whizzed by her head. The school reacted by locking all the students in the cafeteria for lunch period. Literally...locking the doors. I couldn't wait for her to graduate and go off to college. I kept thinking of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.

Merry Christmas yourself....And happy hunting!