How does one likely out-of-shape old cop protect a sprawling school campus with hundreds of students? It's not realistic to post armed guards at every public school and even if you could you can't guarantee that they will prevent a gunman from finding a way in and unleashing mayhem.
Do we really want America to become a Police State? Already, there are cameras everywhere in public and even some in private that we don't know about monitoring our every move. Satellites thousands of miles from earth spy on millions of people and invade our privacy in violation of the 4th Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure.
It's not enough we're x-rayed and fondled at the airport and we're turned into a nation of tattletales by the so-called National Terror Alert Response Center, cooked up by Homeland Dept of Security Sec Janet Napolitano (Big Sis), who advises us, "If you see something say something."
We're becoming a nation of paranoids and perhaps rightly so, knowing Big Sis has hooked up with AT&T and other telecommunications giants to monitor every phone call, text message, email, blog and social media site, ready to snitch at any given moment.
Seizing on mass fears after 9/11, Bush rammed through the so-called Patriot Act (anything but), which widely expanded government surveillance of phone conversations between attorneys and clients -- once considered privileged -- and covers everything from routine wiretaps to the library books we take out.
I'm old now but Orwellian America is right around the corner if not here already. I'm sorry if I've gotten a bit off-topic; however, putting ex-LEOs or burned-out, pensioned cops in a school is part and parcel of Big Government intruding more and more into our lives with the next step sure to be the militarization of our nation.
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 specifically outlaws the military acting like cops on our own soil. But bear in mind that Bush also put through an executive order that changed the 1807 Insurrection Act that gave President much greater powers in the event of something that might be called "insurrection."
Obama, not to be outdone in the imperial presidency, has expanded executive powers to the point of conducting wars without congressional authorization, drone attacks that kill thousands, including innocent children, and now is moving to weaken the 2A, appealing to pure emotion and not logic or law. Congress, set up to be a co-equal branch of government and the Supreme Court have taken a back seat to the White House.
Bottom line: The Constitution, which includes the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, is the law of the land or ought to be.
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