Comments on: House Panel Approves Guns In Schools

By: PensacolaEd

PensacolaEd — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:59:34 +0000

Lee, Just the idea that there MIGHT be someone carrying serves as a deterrent that will prevent a large percentage of these cowards from trying to attack a school. ONE Teacher or administrator with a gun, even on the other end of the campus can get to the scene a hell of a lot quicker than a cop that’s patrolling miles away. And your concern about accidents is unfounded, the number of accidental shootings by licensed concealed carry holders is statistically insignificant.The total number of children under 14 killed by firearms accidents is about 100 per year. Out of a population of about 350,000,000, 100 people is .000028%. Your concerns are unfounded.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 02:36:35 +0000

I don’t want a gun in my home and I surely don’t want one in my child’s classroom. An armed teacher in one end of a school is of little benefit to people at the other end of the school. And what does an armed school look like? Having a gun, even it you’re good at target practice, does not make you prepared to react quickly. Are teachers going to take their guns to lunch? To the library? Are all teachers going to have to undergo some psychological exam to qualify to be armed? And who is going to take responsibility when an accident happens? We need to work at keeping danger out, not bringing more in.

By: PensacolaEd

PensacolaEd — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:12:20 +0000

All those people against this idea: We’ve tried it your way, the “Gun-Free Zones” do NOTHING to deter these nutjobs that want to get famous. It has been seen over and over, that when these coward are met with ANY armed resistance, they either surrender or kill themselves (both outcomes work for me). Just the possibility that there may be somebody there to fight back will stop 95% of these idiots from even attempting an attack in a school. All these predictions of this causing blood baths are laughable, the anti-gunners say the same thing every time a new Pro-Gun law (Concealed Carry, Stand-Your-Ground, etc) is enacted, and their dire predictions NEVER come true.

By: Rufus Lowgun

Rufus Lowgun — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:48:10 +0000

So would we all have felt safer if the custodian they just arrested at Jim Allen Elementary school had had a gun? This is a horrible idea. The answer to gun violence is not more guns. Just ask the mother of the 6 year old boy who was just shot and killed in St. Louis yesterday. She had a gun, so did the bad guy. What happened was her 6 year old son shot dead, and a 15 year old and a 69 year old caught in the crossfire. The bad guy got away.

By: melodies4us

melodies4us — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:39:50 +0000

This is not good. EVERYONE: Please pray for our schools. We all benefit from having good and safe schools.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:27:22 +0000

This is a good thing. The next nutjob that wants to shoot kids at school should get a bullet answering back tout sweet.

By: Bob's Brother

Bob's Brother — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:48:25 +0000

I have mixed emotions about this. I may get off the fence if I were convinced that the ones carrying the weapons had at least the level of training a police officer receives. The training required to get my CC permit was woefully inadequet for carrying a weapon in around a mob of kids.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:17:49 +0000

It is evident that fear has a lot of power.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:44:35 +0000

This is a very common sense bill that needs to be implemented. Times have changed and with that, laws need to be written so they are proactive and not reactive. Hate guns, scared of them, think they can just go off all by themselves and kill people? Those are the people who don’t want this bill passed.

It has been said and is so very true in the ONLY way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Imagine in Newtown if one teacher had a firearm available when the shooting began. Or live with the reality of that situation that all those killed had to wait for the police to arrive…