Comments on: Florida Senate Backs Armed Teachers, Rejects Assault Weapons Ban

By: David Lamb

David Lamb — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:42:12 +0000

Well Lets see! Try to take this country and we shall see how disorganized we are. That disorganized force overthrew the redcoats and established this country

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:46:14 +0000

REGARDING:
“I’m not trying to down play the tragedy of school shootings; just trying to understand why some lives, and causes of their demise, are more important than others.”

Visibility and certainty. When you see dead children lying down killed by someone with a gun, you know they were living, breathing, talking running, laughing just minutes before.

When you are told a few ounces of tissue inside a woman was a person, you are not as certain and you question if the woman saw it as you do, since she is the one who chose to kill it and she is the one who risks death by carrying it. Well, you are certain, but not all are.

DUI is forgiven by many because they think everybody drives around impaired just like they do. Therefore, they don’t worry about anything called equivalent to DUI, such as texting while driving. (Actually, just talking to others in the same car distracts you from your driving just as much as cell phone calls or texting. The slight difference is that your hands are usually free when driving and talking. You have probably talked to others while driving.)

David for understanding.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:30:46 +0000

REGARDING:
“The largest Army in the world is not the US Military. It is the American hunter/sportsman/gun owner.”

Actually, it isn’t. Yes, there are many armed Americans, but guns do not an army make.

1. an organized military force equipped for fighting on land.
2. the branch of a nation’s armed services that conducts military operations on land.
3. a large number of people or things, typically formed or organized for a particular purpose.

ORGANIZED is very important.

An organized force has many times defeated a disorganized force many times its size.

David for organization

By: David Lamb

David Lamb — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:47:27 +0000

Correction! The gun killed my relative but the mentally deranged individual pulled the trigger. He is still out there with his gun.

By: David Lamb

David Lamb — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 07:02:40 +0000

Someone close to me died last spring from a gun. That person had a permit to carry. Unfortunately they were not carrying that day or they might still be alive and the perpetrator might have met his maker

By: David Lamb

David Lamb — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 06:52:56 +0000

The largest Army in the world is not the US Military. It is the American hunter/sportsman/gun owner. The second largest Army is Minnesota/Wisconsin gun owners.. That is why gun ownership is so important. No one could overthrow America unless our complacency gets in our way. Gun ownership is a responsibility . Living in rural areas makes it more important, Law Enforcement only becomes an after the fact note taker or report analyst. LE is stretched by distance and the crime is over by the time they arrive. Makes an AR 15 a little more important. if your life is at stake you cant wait for LE.
Need to insure that disturbed persons are getting medical attention and take their weapons until they become responsible again.

By: 140 hours training is not enough

140 hours training is not enough — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 02:24:57 +0000

Let’s think about the scenario of one kid beating the tar out of another kid in the classroom. Teacher fears for the beaten one’s life, pulls the trigger and kills the aggressor.

Student jumps on teacher (which is NEVER okay) in a class full of students. Teacher says that they feared for their life, pulls sidearm and kills aggressive student in the classroom.

Teacher draws sidearm during same scenario but instead negligently discharges firearm and kills an innocent student in the classroom.

Teachers aren’t cops, marshals or peace officers.

By: Tabby

Tabby — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:51:11 +0000

@Kate
The fact of the matter is Kate, if a majority of people were like you and didn’t care about our individual rights, you would’ve voted them out long ago. See, part of the right to bear arms is to defend yourself against a government overstepping it’s power. The first thing a communist government will do is confiscate firearms. Kind of like smokers. They went from smoking anywhere in a restaurant to their own section, to outside, to down the street, etc. Little by little. If it were all at once there’d be a problem. Eventually you people will win by tech addiction.

By: No Excuses

No Excuses — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 21:21:48 +0000

Let’s look at this logically. If an active shooter appeared in the doorway of your child’s classroom and the teacher shot them dead with his/her weapon, stopping them in their tracks, I bet you’d change your opinion about teachers being for teaching only. That ship sailed a long time ago and teachers today do so much more than just teach.

I’ve been a teacher for 34 years. I’ve also been in law enforcement for 20. I’d much rather NOT have to carry a weapon on my person to be safe, but since it’s been shown time and again that advertising schools as gun free zones has resulted in these mass shootings, I’d rather have my weapon on my person in a legal, prescribed way so that I, and my students, at least stand a chance should something like this happen in NW Florida. BTW – I’ve been through an “active shooter” scenario in the past 3 years when it was reported that someone with a rifle had scaled the fence of our prison and was in the area. It’s scary, but as long as the protocols are followed, things don’t normally get out of hand and the shooter is contained and/or killed. It turned out to be nothing, but the reaction was still the same.

By: Les Bridges

Les Bridges — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 21:10:54 +0000

Where are the standing the gap for the unborn? Millions of babies killed by “choice”. Where is the outcry against tobacco? Where is the indignation about cell phone induced distracted driving? More lives are lost every day to just these causes than the lives lost in a year from “assault rifles”.

Common sense should dictate that murdering babies should be outlawed, tobacco should be a controlled substance and driving while texting should have the same legal consequences as DUI.

I’m not trying to down play the tragedy of school shootings; just trying to understand why some lives, and causes of their demise, are more important than others.