A Part of the Solution to Tragedy
In the aftermath of the apparently premeditated psychotic rampage in Uvalde TX, once again we have to decide — either protecting kids at school is important or it is not. To the good people of Early TX it is obviously important. It is a model that should be replicated from coast to coast.
We cannot wish evil away, sanctimonious posturing will not do.
Our political vermin could ship $40-50-60 BILLION to Ukraine at the drop of a hat and spend ~$800 BILLION annually on “education” in the U.S. But, we have had a almost a quarter-century since Columbine, a decade since Sandy Hook and four years since Parkland to secure our schools and chose not to.
If it offends you that I have thrown this ice cold bucket of reality in your face on my own woodworking blog, tough. I will give your offense all the consideration it deserves; okay, I’m done with that.
I have no desire to say more on this matter.
I don’t think there is any other way to solve the problem. From Jeff Cooper’s writings, if I recall, Israel had similar problems. Their solution was to arm those monitoring the school yards, parents on field trips, etc. . As best I under stand, it worked.
This could be a solution to our returning veterans difficulties in finding jobs and succeeding in civilian life. Make the maintenance dept. of our schools hire vets. Allow them access to a firearms vault as part of the job and see how many perps want to deal with that scenario. To be sure, there would be details to work out, but I doubt we would hear of anyone standing around outside while gunfire was going on inside ever again.
Right on. I’ve come to realize that politicians don’t/won’t do anything to address this and other issues because they don’t want to. More laws aren’t going to do anything. They need to harden the schools. But they won’t because that would solve the problem and they need the problem to campaign on and raise money on. In this case their goal isn’t to protect children, they could care less about children and I cite their stance on abortion as proof and also a lack of hardening the schools. To help prevent this. They want this particular issue to stick around for their greater goal of attacking the 2A. It’s a problem for them that they keep chipping away at. It is standing in their way. History shows that it doesnt work out well for the populace when government disarms them. Mordor really is a swamp.
Jesus Don. There was an armed guard at the school, and the cops stood around for an hour instead of engaging the shooter. Should we arm the teachers because the police were cowardly? Why not just arm the kids? What does “securing” a school even mean? I live in Nashville TN, I can’t even walk my kindergartner to class because of “security”.
I grew up in PG county Maryland, an area you’re probably familiar with, and let me tell you “secure” schools aren’t fun either. You feel like a criminal just walking in.
The problem with our country is people spew hate and anger without even bothering to think through the ramifications of their “solution”, and they regard themselves as heroes for doing so. Which is exactly what this blog post is.
I’ve subscribed to your blog for ten years and preordered all your books from LAP. Hell, my name is in the back of the second roubo book. My respect for you is greatly diminished, which I know you don’t care about because you’ll just write me off as some crazy liberal, despite the fact that we are far more alike than different.
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– Matt
Double dittos with no quotation marks.