A second Republican governor on Tuesday expressed
his openness to considering arming school personnel, including teachers,
as a line of defense against violence such as the Friday shooting at a
Connecticut elementary school.
"I know there's been a knee jerk reaction against that," McDonnell said to the idea when asked in an interview on WTOP, a Washington radio station. "I think there should be a discussion of that - if people were armed, not just the police officer but other school officials were trained and chose to have a weapon, certainly there would have been an opportunity to stop aggressors coming in to the schools."
His comments follow an endorsement of the idea by Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, Monday night. He said teachers with the proper training and license should have "access to weapons in their school" and licensed Texans "should be able to carry your handgun anywhere in this state."
McDonnell pointed to armed airline pilots as an example of non-law enforcement professionals carrying firearms on the job. Thousands of pilots have gone through training and been authorized to carry a firearm aboard their airplane.
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DeleteAll these people I've read lately seem to say, "I don't have the answer to school violence." Well, I have the answer. I was school board chairman in the Virginia town I left to come to Colorado. The schools are managed by the local people, not the Federal Government. If you've never attended a school board meeting I recommend you be silent until you have. If you don't care enough about the little kids in your neighborhood to go to the nearest school and ask what security is in place then you are merely gossiping on these blogs.
DeleteI walk by Virginia Court Elementary school in Aurora, which is three miles from the Batman theater murder site, and at three p.m. three or four hundred beautiful children stream out and Oh, this will horrify some of my old friends, they almost all look Mexican. I feel about them the same way I felt about the Radford VA school children when my three were in those schools. They are All My Children, just like the Soap Opera title.
Show up at City Council meetings. I ran twice and was beaten both times but I knocked on every door in that town of 12,500 citizens.
Show up at School board meetings.
Show up at PTA meetings.
Support the athletic teams and the debate teams and any other team.
The answer is more action and less gossip and if you don't believe me I challenge you to go to Radford Virginia and ask around about me. I left 33 years ago and I'm willing to live or die on what those people say about me.
Horace Smith, Radford City School Board Chairman, 1978-79.
I homeschool Dixie because of the Marxist school system, but if you really insist on your kids being indoctrinated by the government, good luck on their future.
DeleteI have previously posted of my willingness to pay for 25 teachers in my grandchildren's city to get concealed carry permits, so you must know I am proud of this Virginia governor.
ReplyDeleteThat's great man, but they are still going to be brainwashed.
DeleteI visit my grandchildren a couple of time a year and spend a lot of time with them. They are about as far from being brainwashed as you can get. My 14 year old granddaughter wrote me to tell me that she had voted for Gary Johnson in the school straw vote. Every parent home schools their kids, just that most do it poorly. My mother worked six ten hour days a week as a telephone operator and taught me to read before I started school. My dad took me hunting and fishing and I really don't think I came out of school brainwashed. And will the New South have no government schools? What will you do with Charlotte, Atlanta, and Birmingham?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your grandchildren are doing well and of course when you went to public school they were a far cry from today and no, the government shouldn't be involved in the indoctrination of our children and I have no concern for those cities, as they are the last thing on my list and I imagine yours also.:)
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