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article by: brody kennen
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Unfortunately, violence has again struck in a school within the United States of America. The news is full of fast-paced, maddening
and alienating headlines even after these last few weeks. Quite literally, you can watch nearly every existing faction fight each other
while whole new factions split off and join the fray. Politicians have submitted new Federal legislation to renew the Assault Weapons
Ban, raise ages for purchasing of specific classes of firearms, and continue to seek a ban on accessories.
SCHOOL DEFENSE
The firearms community is highly divided due there being two interpretations
of the 2nd Amendment: either all current restrictions should be rolled back or
that “reasonable restrictions” should be had. One side wants to arm students
(at the college level) and teachers and roll back decades old infringements
on certain classes of firearms. The other side wants to continue to allow the
Democrats to receive any demand they can come up with at a moment’s notice:
such as banning bump stocks (“rate-increasing devices”), “assault weapons”
and “improving” background checks (see: “NICS Fix Act”).
And, of course, there’s arming people in the schools. Presently, the talk is
focused on faculty at grade schools, but it would also include armaments by
students at the college level. There has been back-lash to calls by President
Trump, again, to implement the arming of teachers in schools around the
nation. Rep. Mark Sanford mentioned something about the teachers “not
wanting to shoot a student”, but I don’t see the relevance when an assailant is
gunning down your other students. I’m not sure what his point is.
An understanding needs to be had on schools. Colleges and grade schools are
PRESIDENT TRUMPH (R) AND SENATOR FEINSTEIN (D-CA)
two totally different animals to plan a defensive strategy around. For instance,
if the average grade school has one to two Resource Officers (usually from “certain individuals deemed to be dangerous.”
“Take the guns first, go through due process second...”
the sheriff’s office), you may merely double your stock of armed personnel by
Unfortunately, it means whoever the Federal government deems to be
allowing firearms in t