The sheriff of Madison County, North Carolina, reacted to the massacre of students in Uvalde, Texas, by putting an AR15 in every one of the six schools in the district. The guns will be locked in a safe, and breaching tools will be nearby. So don’t come into one of those schools to kill little children!
Imagine the scenario. A gunman with an AR15 shoots his way into the school, as the deranged killer at the Sandy Hook school did a decade ago. He blasts through the door, kills everyone he sees. Meanwhile, the designated defender goes to the safe, breaks it open with the breaching tool, and takes out the AR15.
By that time, the killer has had enough time to mow down the children in at least two classrooms.
The problem in Uvalde wasn’t the lack of weapons. Dozens of heavily armed officers hung out in the corridor outside the classrooms for over an hour. They had guns. What they lacked was courage, brains, and leadership.
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“Imagine the scenario. A gunman with
an AR15a handgun shoots his way into the school, as the deranged killer at the Sandy Hook school did a decade ago. He blasts through the door, kills everyone he sees.Meanwhile, the designated defenderHe then goes to the safe, breaks it open with the breaching tool, and takes out the AR15. and procedes to kill children and teachers with the very gun that was supposed to protect them”Fixed.
Or Imagine the scenario. A current student goes to his school without any weapon at all. He then goes to the safe, breaks it open with the breaching tool, and takes out the AR15. and procedes to kill children and teachers with the very gun that was supposed to protect them”
huge weapons made to kill inside places where we gather children together: WHAT could go wrong
Good morning, Panthers! Today is the last day to order a yearbook, so get your order to Ms. Snidely in the front office by 3:45. Varsity cheerleading practice is cancelled today. Would the student who took the breaching tool from the office please return it? Thank you, and have a funtastic day!
I don’t know, the idea of turning schools into secure prisons makes a lot of sense. It would be a great boon for local contractors to shore up all the buildings, put up fences, watchtowers, etc. Workers from private prisons could act as advisors. New jobs would be created. Students would be better able to deal with packaged, lessons because of the habits imposed by the new system. At urban schools they can add a helicopter and pad, with pilot on call, of course. They could used army surplus Blackhawks! These would be rapid response for the 24 hour coverage provided by at least four drones. Teachers with gun permits could moonlight at bars or, if they get the right clearance, even step in for the military police. And by letting them take their work cars home, they’ll scare their neighborhoods straight just by the presence of them in the driveway! It just gets better the more I think about it!
Greg: your forward thinking amazes me. You need to run from office
I’m running away as fast as I can!
Lately I’ve found the most effective arguments against cultists are not on the merits of anything, but on the logical conclusions of the world they envision. That’s when their absurdity becomes inarguable.
We’re at a point, because NRA Fanatics don’t/can’t live without their guns, where we may need to build schools underground, bunkers, elevators to enter below ground, scan all bio data known to mankind to enter, earthquake proof, oxygen exchanges, oxygen tanks for each in case of power failure – incl. power backup, cots in case of above ground disasters, cut out all outdoor activities, virtual sports, security cameras everywhere, parents can check out kids sent to them through air tubes…….this may be the way this country chooses to live in order to have surviving offsprings to continue our so-called society.
Morbid?
Yes, so are the mass killings we are willing to live with & the CRIMINALS we’re willing to support in the WH, Congress & local levels. We’ve LOST OUR MINDS🤯🥵
Indeed. The elected officials in the Republican Party and those who support them have gone entirely off the cliff into insanity.
Yes, we have reached a point where the NRA fanatics prioritize guns over life.
The irony is that these are usually the same people who claim to be advocates of “the right to life.”
The logic here escapes me.
Grandstanding twit, this sherif.
The job of “designated defender” sounds like a kamikaze mission. Does this duty come with an extra pay bump of at least $10 a pay period? There are too many potential things that could go wrong with this scenario.
If teachers can do bus duty, if they can monitor a 2:00 study hall, urban combat will be like a trip to the aquarium.
I could do anything when I taught, but I lived in great dread of field trips. Especially overnight trips with middle school students! The horrors! The horrors!
Middle school students are like atomic waste: volatile and unpredictable.
Greg: I had a standing rule. I did not do overnight field trips. No freaking way. I always thought people who did these totally nuts. Folks who like to live dangerously.
I believe it is spelled comicaze in this case.
Both comical in the belief that it will actually work as planned and suicidal in it’s outcome.
haaaaa
Just wait for the first time a school employee goes postal with the Ar 15 . Ah mental health. We have such mental health problems.
Precisely. If I had packed a pistol during my teaching days, I would have been dangerous
Wouldn’t that actually be called “going educational”?
Going Educational”
When postal worker kills at work
It’s known as “going postal”
When school official goes berserk
It’s “going educational”
Harwood is totally NUTS!
This is what he said: “We’ll have those tools to be able to breach that door if needed. I do not want to have to run back out to the car to grab an AR, because that’s time lost. Hopefully, we’ll never need it, but I want my guys to be as prepared as prepared can be,”
Will the NRA and Harwood be sued?
Civil society, can you turn your cheek to me so I may kiss you goodbye?
The basic concept of putting weapons in schools is really nothing new. It is called the doctrine of Assured Mutual Destruction. Following this line of logic, the idea would be to put an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead in every school to deter an attack by the Soviets. (And don’t forget the duck and cover drills.)
The problem is that assault rifles cannot assure the destruction of an armed assailant like a few thousand fifteen-megaton explosions can. Another problem is that most assailants seem to want assured mutual destruction. It’s kind of their thing. Putting rifles in schools is, therefore, less a deterrent and more of an invitation, a sweetly scented shooter ambrosia. (And don’t forget the drills. Duck and cover.)
Sherriff Strangelove.
Yes, in a combat zone, even in a heavily fortified military position with trained troops, where everyone has a loaded weapon on them ready to use in mere seconds, is attacked, the attackers have the advantage of surprise for short while: killing, wounding, damaging, until the heavily trained professional troops have time to react as they were trained to do.
In the end, the attackers almost always end up dead or captured unless they have superior numbers.
I think the sheriff of Madison County, North Carolina is extremely, dangerously dumber than dumb. Even if those designated defenders were all former Tier One, Specials Ops troops, the crème of the crop in the US military. even way better than US Marines, there are still going to be casualties before that one individual has time to retrieve that one AR-15 and react. But what happens if that unarmed designated defender ends up one of the casualties before they even reach that AR-15?
At first, in a surprise attack, the shooter or shooters always have the advantage.
Hey! Why not an atomic bomb?