Harden Our Schools Now

Rick Sapp has a rather pessimistic outlook on the current state of the "gun debate" in this country over at the United States Concealed Carry Association's website entitled What They Really Want. Mr. Sapp, an active member of law enforcement with an Ohio Sheriff's office. believes that we will lose our semi automatics, and eventually revolvers, bolt action rifles and shot guns within his lifetime.

Are you prepared for the day that your state legislature outlaws semi-automatics? I am not optimistic. I feel like it is coming in my lifetime. I do not believe that the USCCA, NRA and our other organizations wield enough political power to stop the persistent onslaught.

It will happen state by state, drip by drip. We will be notified by all the media. Gun stores will pay exorbitant taxes and license fees. Box stores will follow the lead of Dick’s; most will quit selling guns and ammo altogether. Our semi-automatics may be grandfathered in, meaning we can keep them if we have them already, but we will have to register each gun by serial number, and we will not be able to sell them privately or give them to our children. 

The second step will be confiscation. We will be required to sell them at a price determined by the legislature. Police will knock on our door. Our name will be on their list. All of the angry muttering about “out of my cold, dead hands” will, at that point, be just hot air.

I can't help but believe that Sapp is correct because we can not maintain Republican majorities forever. The pendulum will eventually swing back the other way, and in the meantime, the Left is hardening its hold on the Democrats(C), and they are not listening. As Jonathon T. Jett points out over at the American Thinker in an article entitled Is There a Solution to School Shootings?, his fellow students are not listening to the solutions the conservative and the gun activist press keep pushing:

We see this same vicious cycle after every modern shooting – the left lobbies for gun control, and the right counters. As a college student, one of the most common complaints I hear is that the right doesn't have any solutions to the problem – that the right just wants to sit back and do nothing. This is patently untrue and ignores the plethora of potential fixes that have been forwarded by those on the right. Nonetheless, I do not believe we can just sit back and hope the school shootings will stop with time. While gun control is not the answer, neither is doing nothing.

So, in light of these recent shootings, what can we do to secure our schools apart from gun control? To answer that, let's look at another public institution: airports. How many shooting incidents have occurred at airports in recent decades? Very few. In fact, if you look globally, only 22 shootings have occurred at airports since the tightening of security following 9-11. By contrast, the New York Times reports that there have been over 200 shootings (16 of which can be classified as mass shootings) in the United States alone since Sandy Hook in 2012.

Jett goes on to list a number of items we could do to harden schools as we have done to airports. But of course, the Left only wants to talk about gun control. They are perfectly fine pretending to care that kids are getting murdered, and no doubt some of the useful idiots really do care. But for the Left, the goal is having the power to force you and me to do what they tell you and to like it, or at least to to smile while doing it.  So, the LAST thing they would want is to harden schools as we have done at airports.  The LAST thing they want is metal detectors at the entrances to schools with armed guards manning those posts.  Because without a constant flow of new incidents where they can dance in the blood of innocents, the American public would quickly return to not wanting any more gun control.

Well, some of it comes down to the common opposition people have toward change and the left's ignorance on security and human nature. However, the more pressing motivation behind the opposition is the fact that if more armed security prevents shootings, then it is reasonable to suggest that good guys with guns do in fact stop bad guys with guns.

So, OK, maybe we should change the quote to this: To stop a bad guy with a gun, what you need is a willing good guy with a gun. Because the Parkland shooting featured a lot of officers, with guns, who did nothing, thanks to a Leftist Sheriff Israel. Don't get me wrong here. I am not saying that Sheriff Israel arranged for the Parkland shooting, or wanted it to happen. Rather, like fellow traveler Rahm "Never let a good crisis go to waste" Emanuel, Sheriff Israel put his ideology ahead of his duty to protect and serve the people of Broward County, including the students at Parkland.

We need to harden schools against the random crazed killer.  We also need armed security at our  schools trained and prepared to take down any shooter that gets through the security net.  There will always be random crazed killers, looking for soft targets.  Don't be that soft target.