President Obama admin to allocate $45 million

[theking]

...to place armed officers in schools.

[The Duck]

Armed officers in school.. Let that sink in for a minute. What kind of world are we living in.

[theking]

Armed officers in school.. Let that sink in for a minute. What kind of world are we living in.

Easy answer...the same kind of world we have lived in since the human animal left the caves 30,000 years ago...a violent world.

[geedub]

Easy answer...the same kind of world we have lived in since the human animal left the caves 30,000 years ago...a violent world.

I think I actually agree with you. My middle school and high school always had a cop there.. I thought it was fairly normal, you occasionally seen him roaming the hallways.

[nico-t]

a new low. And the bottom still hasn't been reached yet.

[~Ray]

doesn't seem like very much money for a long term solution

[theking]

doesn't seem like very much money for a long term solution

It isn't...but it will kick start it...and the States may keep up the funding for armed officers to be in our schools.

[notinmybackyard]

And on page 2 of the newspaper Walmart annonces a 20% off sale on the new Iphone.

Now which annoucnement do you think is going to get the most response? Armed gards in the schools or a sale at Walmart?

[Grapesoda]

a new low. And the bottom still hasn't been reached yet.

every Jewish school that I've been too has armed guards

[DWB]

- Happy to say I was raised in a school district and during a time where such a thing was UNTHINKABLE.

- This is the unfortunate price a gun crazed society has to pay.

- Curious to see if this even helps. They have had two attacks on military bases where everyone there is an armed solider, so I'm really not sure putting one in a school is going to help much. I hope it does, and in theory it's a good idea if it will protect kids, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Lets say you're planning on killing yourself anyway, as many of them do, so entering on the other side of the building and going on a killing spree while the armed guard is on the other side of the building, or taking a dump, is still going to be pretty effective.

Whack jobs gonna whack.

[theking]

- Happy to say I was raised in a school district and during a time where such a thing was UNTHINKABLE.

- This is the unfortunate price a gun crazed society has to pay.

- Curious to see if this even helps. They have had two attacks on military bases where everyone there is an armed solider, so I'm really not sure putting one in a school is going to help much. I hope it does, and in theory it's a good idea if it will protect kids, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Lets say you're planning on killing yourself anyway, as many of them do, so entering on the other side of the building and going on a killing spree while the armed guard is on the other side of the building, or taking a dump, is still going to be pretty effective.

Whack jobs gonna whack.

Not eveyone on a military base is armed...in fact on any given day a handful may be armed. A soldiers arms are locked up in an Armory so he/she do not even have quick access to their assigned weapon/weapons.

[baddog]

Fucked up.

[arock10]

Obama and another one of his anti gun policies. No but seriously he is gunna take your guns

[arock10]

And also there has been an officer in all the schools I attended. Nothing revolutionary here. But I guess appear to be shocked and appalled

[theking]

For those that may have forgotten this is also the NRA's response to Sandy Hook...armed officer's in every school.

[BFT3K]

I suppose an armed cop in a school is still less insane than armed teachers, and much less insane than armed students.

If they can implement guns that can ONLY be fired by the owner of the gun, that would make it much less insane.

With the technologies of today, you would think they could accomplish this pretty easily if they wanted to, but for some reason it doesn't happen.

The navy shooter shot a guard and then used the guard's gun to keep shooting.

An armed guard or cop in a school may seem reasonable (maybe in some districts), but when you realize the cop's gun is another weapon that has now entered the building, it may not be so sensible without locking the weapon's use to the cop, and ONLY the cop.

[theking]

I suppose an armed cop in a school is still less insane than armed teachers, and much less insane than armed students.

If they can implement guns that can ONLY be fired by the owner of the gun, that would make it much less insane.

With the technologies of today, you would think they could accomplish this pretty easily if they wanted to, but for some reason it doesn't happen.

The navy shooter shot a guard and then used the guard's gun to keep shooting.

An armed guard or cop in a school may seem reasonable (maybe in some districts), but when you realize the cop's gun is another weapon that has now entered the building, it may not be so sensible without locking the weapon's use to the cop, and ONLY the cop.

There are things wrong with that line of thought as well...think about it.

[arock10]

I suppose an armed cop in a school is still less insane than armed teachers, and much less insane than armed students.

If they can implement guns that can ONLY be fired by the owner of the gun, that would make it much less insane.

With the technologies of today, you would think they could accomplish this pretty easily if they wanted to, but for some reason it doesn't happen.

The navy shooter shot a guard and then used the guard's gun to keep shooting.

An armed guard or cop in a school may seem reasonable (maybe in some districts), but when you realize the cop's gun is another weapon that has now entered the building, it may not be so sensible without locking the weapon's use to the cop, and ONLY the cop.

this shit exists, 2 seconds of google searching: http://www.intelligun.com/

[BFT3K]

this shit exists, 2 seconds of google searching: http://www.intelligun.com/

Okay, cool - so why is this technology not mandatory?

[Rochard]

- Curious to see if this even helps. They have had two attacks on military bases where everyone there is an armed solider....

That's not true really. I've lived on a military base and we very rarely had weapons, only when we went out on training. It's not like you walk in the PX (store) and see people lugging around assault rifles.

[bronco67]

It's a waste of money waiting for lightning to strike.

[arock10]

Okay, cool - so why is this technology not mandatory?

because obama gunna take our guns!

[slapass]

Froma community policing stand point it makes total sense. The schools are were the criminals are. I grew up with a cop in the school and never thought anything about it. I think they still do it where I went.

[DWB]

That's not true really. I've lived on a military base and we very rarely had weapons, only when we went out on training. It's not like you walk in the PX (store) and see people lugging around assault rifles.

Even though most people are not armed on base, if you were to count the number of people with a firearm on a military base vs the number of people with a firearm at any given school, I'd wage a military base would have more armed people than a school.

You'd have to be bat shit crazy to attack a military base.

[theking]

Even though most people are not armed on base, if you were to count the number of people with a firearm on a military base vs the number of people with a firearm at any given school, I'd wage a military base would have more armed people than a school.

You'd have to be bat shit crazy to attack a military base.

As I stated...on any given day...there may be a handful of armed personnel.

[crockett]

Watching the responses here came pretty much as I expected from the typical right wingers.. A few months ago all the right wingers were saying we need armed guards in schools.. Now Obama puts armed guards at schools and it's.. OMG Obama gonna take our guns.. Hurry everyone go stock up agin...

So fuckin predictable.

[Evil1]

Okay, cool - so why is this technology not mandatory?

Because when it fails, and it WILL fail, people die. There's a lot of force from a round going off inside a gun.. not a great place to put electronics.

That company will be sued out of existence the first time someone using that dies because it crapped out.

[winter_]

i was one of those at-risk kids in school like the nutters such as the columbine shooters and the odd one who decides to pop some off in those scandanavian countries and post it on youtube, ville might agree with that perception.

i did have access to guns at a young age, many hunting rifles my father owned. 303's, 308's, .22's... they were freely sitting in clothing wardrobes. i would pick them up, aim them at mid-air, there were bullets, and a fuck load of them, but i still didn't have the mental capacity to understand what i was doing, how to do it, why i was doing it, and so on.

fortunately i never became a gun nut, as i didn't have the mental inclination to swing that way.

why my father would keep hi-powered hunting rifles with a fairly large cache of ammunition all ready to go with someone who knew how to load the gun, then shoot it, maybe to kill, is beyond me.

i think i should be happy i am who i am because i could have become obsessed with guns and hunting and become a real redneck.

[halfpint]

Easy answer...the same kind of world we have lived in since the human animal left the caves 30,000 years ago...a violent world.

We dont have armed gaurds at our schools here in the UK

[Vendzilla]

I don't have a problem with armed guards in the schools. Until one of those guards shoots a kid that pointed a pink plastic water pistol at one of them.

But the money will only end up at schools that are in the city and not the small communities

Yes the tech for guns that only work for those that own them has been around for a while.

I would rather they spent money to put better text books in for the kids and serve them up on ipads

[kane]

I think I actually agree with you. My middle school and high school always had a cop there.. I thought it was fairly normal, you occasionally seen him roaming the hallways.

The town I grew up in has changed drastically in this regards. I was in high school in the mid-late 1980's in a small redneck town. At any given time you could go out to the parking lot and find a truck with a gun rack that had a rifle in it. During hunting season it looked like a sporting goods store because the guys would bring their rifles to school so they could head out and hunt as soon as school got out.

Today, in that same school, they have a full time police officer and they recently arrested a kid because he made a rubber band gun that a teacher thought looked "too realistic."

[Tom_PM]

Society is the shell shocked wife in the abusive relationship with gun violence. Won't leave it, and won't press charges.

To be expected though when our holiest books are filled with passages about raining fiery death from the invisible man in the sky who loves us. In his image or what.

[kane]

It's a waste of money waiting for lightning to strike.

This is a great point.

If I remember correctly one of the schools where one of these shootings took place had an armed guard at it and he was the first guy they shot.

Having armed police officers in schools isn't going to deter crazy people from doing crazy things.

This money would be better spent providing services for and helping to identify those who might carry out these crazy acts.

[Tom_PM]

what could go wrong?

[L-Pink]

A cop or 2 roaming the halls won't do shit except become the first target.

[kane]

It's a waste of money waiting for lightning to strike.

This is a great point.

If I remember correctly one of the schools where one of these shootings took place had an armed guard at it and he was the first guy they shot.

Having armed police officers in schools isn't going to deter crazy people from doing crazy things.

This money would be better spent providing services for and helping to identify those who might carry out these crazy acts.

[BFT3K]

Because when it fails, and it WILL fail, people die. There's a lot of force from a round going off inside a gun.. not a great place to put electronics.

That company will be sued out of existence the first time someone using that dies because it crapped out.

Funny that it isn't the other way around, but of course that would make sense, so it is what it is... until it is changed.

[Vendzilla]

I think the funny thing is that most schools have a cop assigned to them in California

My daughters High School in a small town had a Sheriff car parked outside all the time

[PornMD]

Armed officers in school.. Let that sink in for a minute. What kind of world are we living in.

Just wait til one of them has a bad morning or is mentally ill and lied on their application or whatever and shoots up the school.