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jlf1961 -> RE: Anotther school shooting. (12/14/2013 10:47:06 AM)
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Lets look at history for a minute.
At one point, when the English ruled Scotland, they banned the Scots from owning weapons, and the Scots did comply, kinda, they hid their weapons so the English could not find them.
On April 19, 1775, a contingent of the British army left Boston with orders to seize guns held legally by Massachusetts militia members. The idea was to disarm the militia so that there could be no armed uprising against British rule. We all know how that ended.
Now granted, there had been protests concerning various issues, but no armed revolt at that time, and in years previously, the British army had used the Colonial Militias to deal with certain problems, like the French.
So our founding fathers, many veterans of the revolution drafted the US Constitution and the bill of rights, after the Articles of Confederation turned out to be flawed.
Some, remembering Lexington and Concord, proposed and incorporated the second amendment to deal with the possibilities of an oppressive government in the future.
Here we are two hundred plus years later, with some gun laws that dont work, and many gun laws that would work if the teeth had not been pulled from the ATF in past administrations.
If you were to sit down in a room of average gun owners, and actually listen to them, you would find many agree on the fact we need better firearm laws, and the proper man power to enforce those laws.
In the larger cities, there are metal detectors at school entrances, not just for guns, but knives as well, and armed police in the halls. Many government buildings have restricted access points with metal detectors and armed police in place to prevent anyone from using a gun in that building. The largest hospital in town has armed security at the ER entrance, as well as metal detectors in place in the ER. After 7PM that is the only entrance to the hospital that is unlocked.
There has never been a violence problem in this town, except in the sixties, with the local high schools. Now the schools issue ID's at the registration that has to be passed over a pad at the entrance to open the damn doors, the entrance to the schools nearest the office has armed police and there are armed police in the halls.
As I said, in over thirty years there has not been a single incident in any of the area schools that involved more than fists. Unless you count the senior prank at one school where some students released some rather large pigs into the building, but I dont know if you can classify that as school violence, though a few students slipped on pig manure and suffered minor injuries.
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