Hall monitor
Hardened School
Protests-Marches and Freedom of Speach
Ya get the point. On the plus side with armed teachers and hardened school tardies will go down, and complaints about school food will cease.
On the downside---well like many schools Stoneman was financially strapped and having problems fielding basic supplies (like paper) for students but the government has found funds to train the lunch lady to shoot bad guys. Crazy.
The harder the school the earlier you have to get to school (who wants to wake their adolescent boy at 5 am so they can wait in line to go through a metal detector?) And of course the lines that form outside of hardened schools become excellent targets.
My son spoke at a march for gun regulations. Not one of the 100 or so gun control advocates brought more than a sign and their voice. What the F*CK is wrong with the 2nd amendment advocates (and to be fair white supremacists) who feel it is necessary to bring an AR-15, sidearm and club to a march?
The march in Aspen was widely supported with many cheers from passing motorists. However, one guy (and it's always guys) did think the necessary response was to shout 'PUSSIES" at the kids marching for gun control. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to have a thoughtful debate with gentleman to better understand his view but it's hard for me to think the kids who don't want guns in every room in the face of increasing violence are the 'pussies'. I'm thinking the guys who need a gun in every room to feel safe are the real pussies---for sure they aren't real men.
This weekend was the end of my son's big mountain ski team. Here is a quick clip of a real man in action (cape and all).
Look, taken to the idiot extreme, having SWAT team-armed teachers sounds absurd. But in Chicago my kids' school has a Chicago police officer working detail during all school hours. During drop off / pick up they assist with directing traffic and during the day they sit at the front desk of the main entrance and monitor people coming into the school. All detail officers are required to carry their sidearm, which the officer keeps concealed from the children. The rest of the school doors are locked and monitored by camera so if someone tried to enter the main entrance with ill intent, the officer would be able to stop them, or could respond to any of the other locked and monitored entrances. Seems fairly reasonable to me. We recently visited Park City High School which is as large as a shopping mall and were surprised to see the main entrance did not have any security or monitoring, no sign-in desk, and all the entry / exit points to the facility were unlocked. This also seems like an idiot extreme. You can't get into a single office building in Chicago without showing ID, singing in at the front desk, or having keycard access. Some reasonable access control is just common sense. And yes it's also common sense that the general public should not have unfettered access to high powered weapons.
ReplyDeleteNow, is Aspen so boring in a bad snow year that there's nothing interesting to write about living there and the contrast to living in Chicago that this blog has become an anti-gun rant? I fear you may be losing your audience.