If you don’t follow foreign policy expert Richard Grenell on Twitter, you should. Today he’s tweeting ideas to cut down on school shootings that make far too much sense to be implemented.
In light of all the school violence, it’s callous for President Obama to not act to put armed guards at every school.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 11, 2013
There are too many TSA agents standing around the airports. Use the money to put armed guards at our schools.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 11, 2013
Bonus benefit: We could cut down on the grope-a-thons at the same time.
Cut 1 staffer from every member of congress and DC federal office. Use the money to put armed guards at our schools.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 11, 2013
As they say on Twitter, THIS.
By the way, Biden is said to be considering one good idea, which is funding an increased police presence at schools. That is not a new idea, it’s one that President Bill Clinton enacted after the Columbine killings, and one that the NRA has proposed after Sandy Hook. It’s also one that the Obama government cut over the past few years. The media have consistently failed to point out that one of the very few things this government has been willing to cut is very relevant to the safety of our children at schools.
Re-allocating federal money is silly. The objective is to get the feds OUT of the schools, not increase their influence—and to REDUCE federal spending, not re-purpose it.
Get rid of the gun-free zone decrees; make it easier for the teachers to carry; let nature take its course. Any government efforts should go towards detecting, diagnosing, and re-institutionalizing the insane.
Sidwell Friends, the school the Obama and many other politician’s kids go to employs eleven armed security guards. That’s over and above the Secret Service detail for the presidential rugrats. Their children deserve protection, while we are being foolish for demanding the same for ours.
Why not put security cameras at the entrance of every school and have them monitored at a central police station? The monitor wouldn’t have to be a policeman, just a trained person. Each person could monitor multiple schools. Other than the times when the children come and go, software could be written to help identify motion at the entrances to increase the monitors’ effectiveness.
A camera going out would generate an instant 911 alert to send the closest policemen to the school.
A loudspeaker at each entrance could be used to confront suspicious people and an alert system inside the school would start a lock-down process. Any suspicious activity would generate a 911 call as well.
There are probably some major drawbacks to this idea, but it would be much cheaper than a guard at every entrance, which is really what it would take. Plus, guards probably wouldn’t all be trained policemen.
If a monitoring system was combined with specially trained and armed teachers, it might shut the problem down completely. As many have said, the mentally disturbed people who commit these atrocities are crazy, not stupid. They are looking for soft targets, not a quick suicide.
Because the policeman or guard wouldn’t actually BE there. The police would have a response time of at least several minutes to reach the scene, coordinate then move in slowly as their tactics dictate. They might even wait longer still for the SWAT team and higher ups to arrive. During all that time the killing could continue and indeed a hostage situation could be set up.
No, the liberal elite have it right: well trained and armed guards at their schools. If that deterrent doesn’t work, then they can slow the attackers down long enough for the police to arrive in force.
A monitored camera would reduce the response time because at the first sign of danger a 911 call would go out; a loudspeaker would slow a maniac down because he would be startled and confronted (and not know whether the person on the loudspeaker was inside the building or not); and teachers would be notified to lock their doors faster because they would hear about trouble before a break-in, not after.
Guards aren’t perfect either. At the California shooting a couple of days ago, the guard wasn’t present because he was “snowed in”. At another major incident a few years ago, the guard hid in his office.
You make schools into airport-like places, don’t be suprised when you are firmly yoked to a Leviathanic state in another generation.
“By the way, Biden is said to be considering one good idea, which is funding an increased police presence at schools.”
Funding it with what?