Armed Guards at Sidwell Friends

[cockerpoodle2]

A little piece of info that you might not have heard.
There has been a lot of anguished response to Wayne LaPierre's suggestion that schools should be protected by armed guards. It would be hugely expensive they say, and more guns at school is not the answer.
Now it turns out that the President's girls attend a school, Sidwell Friends, that employs 11 armed guards and is recruiting for a twelfth. That is in addition to the Secret Service unit that is tasked with protecting just them.
It seems that the children of DC's potentates deserve armed protection, but our kids should cower under their desks and hope the police come in time. They took 20 minutes at Newtown.
My humble suggestion:
Recruit retired LEO's and military to volunteer for protection duty. They have already been backgrounded and have firearms expertice. I am guessing that every school would be deluged.
Cockerpoodle

 

[mstuhr]

Clinton

"There has been a lot of anguished response to Wayne LaPierre's suggestion that schools should be protected by armed guards."

I forget if it was Columbine, but I think it was, when Bill Clinton suggested the same basic thing as Mr. LaPierre.
There was no media outrage. It is politics plain and simple.
If someone on their side of the isle would recommend we take all students with grades below C and grind them up and feed them to the smart kids the biggest part of the media would endorse it.
If LaPierre came up with a sure fire solution to school shootings, one that you could look at and see that it was a good idea, the media would condemn him and his plan.
It's a shame we don't get to vote for news anchormen.
Thanks
Mike

 

[ChuckS1]

A Quaker school, at that. Seems their belief in pacifism is flexible as well. But if you pay $50K a year to go there, I guess it should include armed guards.

 

[Mike7.62]

Ain't it amazin' how all of the politicians and media types who call for general disarmament of the populace all stand behind their own armed "paetorian" guards while doing so. It seems to be acceptable for us to be vulnerable to attack from criminals and criminal governments, while they are not. I have only one thng to say to those who would disarm me, and it is ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!

 

[Raider]

+1 for Mike7.62

Charlie

 

[jaykellogg]

I applaud Sidwell Friends and the President for enduring that the children there and the President's girls are as safe from attack as possible. I just wish it were possible to have agreement to do that everywhere. BTW, I am under the impression that there was an armed officer present at Columbine.

 

[Old cop]

I've had this discussion with friends who are anti gun. They object to the messenger (NRA) and not the message w/o realizing it. What they want is a world that does not exist, one in which we will all be safe w/o guns.

 

[Alnamvet68]

I've had this discussion with friends who are anti gun. They object to the messenger (NRA) and not the message w/o realizing it. What they want is a world that does not exist, one in which we will all be safe w/o guns.

It's a sad day when an anti-2A type lives his entire life in a fantasy that's in his head; me, I'll live and take my chances in the real world, outside of my head, however dangerous it has become.

 

[Old TexMex]

Shameful hypocrisy. Not that their children are undeserving of protection, but that ours need protection as a result of the behavior and the culture advanced by those very elitists. Their culture and ideology have created this problem in modern society. They can't begin to correct a problem until they are willing to admit they are the cause.

 

[Old TexMex]

I applaud Sidwell Friends and the President for enduring that the children there and the President's girls are as safe from attack as possible. I just wish it were possible to have agreement to do that everywhere. BTW, I am under the impression that there was an armed officer present at Columbine.

There WAS an armed deputy at Colombine, and he DID save lives, which you may discover by reading the actual reports, or even news reports that aren't anti gun to begin with. The armed officer drew fire from Harris, and gave many students a chance to evacuate. Truth told, it proves the value, (rather than shows the ineffectiveness) of armed presence in otherwise soft targets.

I am sure that all here want the very best for the lowliest of all our citizens, as well as the priviliged few.
Applaud the President all you want, he is misguided and hypocritical, at best, in his position on the right to keep and bear arms. No one deserves applause for doing what they're supposed to do in the first place.

 

[truckemup97]

My daughter attends a private school that has five armed security personnel I've been able to identify. For $3000 less than what the public school district spends per student, she gets a better education AND security.

 

[sophie]

I may be old school because I had no problem with what Wayne LaPierre had to say. I think we need armed security in our schools. Then all the nutheads and crazies that decide to shoot kids would at least have the threat of armed security if they decide to shoot people in the public schools. They know there is nothing to stop them from carrying out their game crazed fantasies because the schools are gun free zones. I say we need to protect them.

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James

 

[Biginge]

According to Mike Huckabee, on Fox. News this morning, David Gregorys' children go to this school also. How bout that hypocrisy?

 

[pete950]

There are a lot of LE's out there that are retireing and looking for a gig to help pay for health insurance and supplement their income. The wonderful government is so concerned they should offer security grants to all the schools to pay for most of the security. This can be done with the money that they send to all the countrys that can' stand the United States!!!!

 

[blujax01]

Found the story and linked it to my FB page. Thanks!

 

[jack the toad]

Of course there are those that oppose LaPierre's message and although some may agree, they still don't like it for numerous reasons.
It's not popular with me because I don't like having to think about requiring armed guards to protect someone as innocent as the majority of school children. But I'm also a realist and understand if that's what it takes to protect them in the world in which we live, then so be it.