While the concept of equipping schools with the tools necessary to protect those under their care is valid, there are some problems with the premise.
The first thing that I see is that magical quote that there have been, "74 school shootings since Sandy Hook." It turns out that this is a figure being thrown about by Bloomberg's group and is as factual as the often touted statement that 10% of American Men are gay. The "school shooting" count that was presented the fine print reads, âIncidents were classified as school shootings when a firearm was discharged inside a school building or on school or campus grounds.â That included events that occurred after hours, accidental shootings, suicides, gang activity and even a shooting in self-defense. It also included any kind of educational campus from K-Post Doc. Back to your article though, now that I've gotten that out of the way... I think these things would work well in tornado alley, but only as a Peanuts style security blanket. There are less expensive ways to cover our children's safety and many of them are already rolled out in states across the nation. Take a look at http://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/possession-of-a-firearm-by-the-mentally-ill.aspx which outlines the mental health restrictions for each state. Now if we could find a way to neatly tuck the offenders of those in we'd be set! Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/11/its-come-to-this-bullet-resistant-blankets-for-school-kids/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370818 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
