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Minnesota school board chair wants armed volunteers

Postby jdege on Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:48 am

Minnesota school board chair wants armed volunteers to patrol schools

https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2018/02/24/minnesota-school-board-chair-wants-armed-volunteers-patrol-schools/369881002/
In Osseo, school board chairman Robert Gerhart floated the idea last week that armed volunteers who are 21 and older and have a permit to carry a weapon could patrol the school halls.

“Our nation mourns over another senseless mass shooting at a school. I am sick and tired of the talk that happens after each one of these events and lack of tangible action that follows,” Gerhart said. “We have the ability to make a difference right here and right now.”
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Re: Minnesota school board chair wants armed volunteers

Postby xd ED on Mon Feb 26, 2018 7:47 am

From the above article:

Rick Kaufman, who oversees emergency management for Bloomington Public Schools, was one of the first on the scene after the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado in 1999.

“From an emergency management standpoint, we don’t believe you address gun violence in our schools with more guns,” he said. “Law enforcement are trained; they are hard-wired to carry out what they are trained to do. That’s not what our staff are trained to do.”


In view of the (non)performance of Broward Co Sheriff's Dept, that response rings a bit hollow.
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Re: Minnesota school board chair wants armed volunteers

Postby Ghost on Mon Feb 26, 2018 8:16 am

xd ED wrote:From the above article:

Rick Kaufman, who oversees emergency management for Bloomington Public Schools, was one of the first on the scene after the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado in 1999.

“From an emergency management standpoint, we don’t believe you address gun violence in our schools with more guns,” he said. “Law enforcement are trained; they are hard-wired to carry out what they are trained to do. That’s not what our staff are trained to do.”


In view of the (non)performance of Broward Co Sheriff's Dept, that response rings a bit hollow.

It's down right dangerous to rely on people who don't care about you.
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Re: Minnesota school board chair wants armed volunteers

Postby Lumpy on Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:12 pm

Wait for the scripted "spontaneous student petition": "We'd be scared to go to a class where the teacher had a gun". :roll:
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Re: Minnesota school board chair wants armed volunteers

Postby Holland&Holland on Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:35 pm

Lumpy wrote:Wait for the scripted "spontaneous student petition": "We'd be scared to go to a class where the teacher had a gun". :roll:


Maybe they should have completed their homework then, just saying ...
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Re: Minnesota school board chair wants armed volunteers

Postby Ghost on Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:52 pm

Holland&Holland wrote:
Lumpy wrote:Wait for the scripted "spontaneous student petition": "We'd be scared to go to a class where the teacher had a gun". :roll:


Maybe they should have completed their homework then, just saying ...

Should be more afraid of the person who wants to kill them.

I watched the Florida senate hearing today and one of the senators actually made the argument that if his kids teacher carried a gun he’d have to teach his kids to not tell the teacher what they think or something like that.
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