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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me start out by saying I would have no problem banning AR-15s.  Let me also say that I don't think it's the solution liberals think it is.

What I see here is similar to what I saw in the church shooting - that government failed to stop these individuals from getting a weapon in the first place. Cruz was known to both the school and to the FBI. He stated he wanted to shoot up a school. That clearly wasn't an alarm bell to FBI. See something, say something, failed.

We can argue gun control until we are blue in the face. What I'm after in this thread, is the where the security failures are at the LOCAL level and what can be done to prevent future attacks.

We saw with Lanza, he failed to legally procure a gun. He tried. The system worked. Instead he killed his mother, and took hers. She failed to see the danger. He then had to shoot off a lock (from what I understand) to gain entry to the school. There was no officer at the door to stop him - to even give him pause. By the time officers DID get there, children were massacred. Sitting ducks so to speak.

Cruz waltzed right into the school, despite what the school is calling 'tight security'. Unless the officer on premise was killed at the only point of entry (per the superintendent), we can assume the officer was not at that point of entry. The football coach who was deemed security, was left unarmed and protected kids with his own body, and subsequently his life.

I know of a lot of veterans who would like to volunteer their time to help guard those entries. I know of a lot of teachers who either are already trained -  or would like to train - to carry concealed within the schools.  Instead, there is shouting about disarming these law-abiding citizens. I maintain we just SAW what happened to a disarmed population (gun-free zone).

Please tell me logical reasons as to why we cannot, on a local level, move to protect our schools. [/quote]

DH is a LEO and he thinks that this is the dumbest idea ever.  Knowing how to use a gun is one thing - knowing how to use a gun in a crisis is a completely different notion.  Consider this, a teacher's priority is to keep kids safe so they can be evacuated safely.  So...a teacher (who may be near her students) fires at the gunman.  Gunman fires back.  So all this teacher has done is draw fire towards her and her students.  Seems less than ideal.  Ok.  Consider a team of first responders shows up and multiple people in the school are brandishing guns and possibly firing.  LEO has no idea who is who and you have a bunch of kids in the middle.

You want to have limited points of entry?  Fine.  Metal detectors at those points of entry (a lot of schools have them)?  Cool.  A closed campus?  Ok.  You want to have armed police officers in every school (a lot of schools have that)?  Might work.  But it is an awful idea to bring civilians with guns or concealed weapons into the school environment.[/quote]

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