Well now we know we have 3 more officers at the scene who are I guess also "Not Good Men". Look we all know that not everyone has the guts to do what is needed. It does not make them Bad Men, they might be called cowards or whatever but my point is your not going to know who is a "Good Man" until the situation arises.
To a degree, I agree. I do find it perplexing that we keep uncovering more defenders who were there on the scene and elected not to take action. This has an aura of perhaps having the wrong people at the right place. Were these individuals properly trained for the risks that they were placed to face? We don't seem to have those answers yet. I am thinking, perhaps they were not, and this just adds to the pile another ball that may have been dropped leading up to this terrible incident. There is a lot of fault to be spread around concerning this incident, and I do not think we have uncovered all of it yet. But we must uncover it to reduce the chances of it happening again.
I know plenty of ex military guys who would fold during a shooting like that because they would have a bad episode of PTSD and even if they did go in I am not so sure of what they might do in that mental state.
Being ex-military myself, I know of what you speak, and I do not think that just any "ex-military guys" should be put in school hallways with weapons. I do, although, know far more that would be suitable than the few I know that would not. And far far fewer that would be suitable without proper training. I am not convinced that putting defensive weapons in the hands of just any teacher or vet is a good idea at all. I foresee a new industry sprouting soon that will become the Blackwater for schools.
Lastly I don't want my kids to be entering a military camp every morning. I don't want them to be reminded by the guys at the entrance with the AR's that they are always in possible danger. That's not what school is supposed to be about and personally I am not going to be pro second amendment if it means my kids have to live in a state of constant fear. No sir when it comes down to those two choices my kids win out every time.
Again, I agree, I don't want my kids (well, grandchildren) to be entering a military camp every morning, either. Who does? But recall that some acts of mass violence have taken place on military bases, which have pretty much been reduced to places where guns are not carried anymore. IMHO proper and highly effective security does not station guards with rifles at doorways. There are many much more effective ways to provide better security. But I'm afraid you may have to accept metal detectors as a way of life at schools just as you do at a courthouse, airport, or professional ball game.
Unfortunately, we all seem to be in more potential danger than we were several decades ago, not just kids in school.
If you think that rescinding the Second Amendment would give us a safer environment, I am anxious to see your vision of just how that would work. Thus far I see very little evidence that laws have very much impact on criminals. If fewer liberties and more gun restrictions was the answer, Chicago would be a Utopian garden spot. I don't want our kids in constant fear either. Again we agree. But, there always seems to be something to fear. I vividly recall sitting in classrooms with windows cracked open and candles burning to eliminate the threat of Polio which, if you survived, would land you in an iron lung, and every month we practiced drills intended to save us from nuclear blasts from the evil Red Menace.
I submit to you that our children will live in less fear with a functional Second Amendment than they will without it.
I am all for the kids, too, but reality must creep in to the solutions we offer up. Disarming law abiding citizens is even less attractive in today's atmosphere of terrorism than it was a few years ago when we didn't have the problems that face us today. That approach totally discounts the roots of the problems we face (mental health, poor parenting, terrorism from within and abroad, etc. ) and removes the ability to defend ourselves and loved ones. I will spare the history lesson as to why the Second Amendment exists in the first place, but suffice it to say that it was implemented to eliminate social threats and fears that were different, but very real at the time.
Now is the time to give serious thoughts to our failures as a society, and work towards addressing those issues, which I would hope would help us all feel better about the world we are forming to be left to our children. Yes, the kids deserve better than what we have to leave them with at this point.
