This is a follow up to the December 20, 2012 Judiciary Report article "
President Obama To Address Gun Control Via
Congress." In the article the Judiciary Report stated, "As some want a full gun ban in America, while others do not, as it is
unconstitutional under the law,
an option would be to apply a tax to gun sales and use the money to pay for
armed guards in schools, along with better
building security. This would also
create jobs, which in this matter, isn't a priority, as the kids' safety is the
issue."
Two days later, the NRA stated they want just that
"armed
officers." While I'm not a gun person, never owned or touched one, I understand
it is a right
in America under the Constitution. In the mean time while
Congress debates the issue, something needs to be done to increase school security.
Armed, bulletproof vest wearing
guards with head gear is a solution. The
attacks must stop. To say it wouldn't work, yet have armed guards and police
officers at federal courthouses and federal buildings like the FBI, keeping the
aforementioned judges and law enforcement feds safe, says you can do it for the
kids as well. People
can't keep doing this to innocent children, taking their lives from them before
they barely
get to live it.
STORY SOURCE
NRA says armed officers should be in every school
Posted on: 3:14 pm, December 22, 2012, by Megan Woo and Jon Burkett - (WTVR)
– The focus of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting sparked a debate in
Washington about gun laws. The NRA CEO, Wayne LaPierre, claimed gun control is
not the answer, saying that every school in America should have an armed police
officer inside.
Richmond school board leader Kim Gray said the federal or state governments,
not the localities, should provide funding to have armed officers in each
school. “It’s absolutely necessary to have a police officer based at every
school,” Gray told CBS 6?s Jon Burkett. “I think that when we have incidents
of this nature, then we increase our security in and about our schools.”...