Jeffrey Goldberg’s unusual (for a liberal in a Progressive magazine like The Atlantic) call for arming some teachers or staff in public schools to fight mass murderers, is worth a read. Another worthy one is Howard Nemerov’s report in PJMedia that it was the Clinton administration that imposed “gun free zones” on public schools in 1995.
Which means the Sandy Hook, CT, school, like every other public one in the country—and all our neighborhood schools as well—has a sign at the main entrance announcing that no law-abiding person inside is armed. Which is really stupid. It’s a pure invitation to the deranged, like Lanza, the evil bastard who killed all those 5-year-olds, may his soul rot in hell.
He is said, in the latest update of what has been some remarkably inaccurate and callous reporting (even for the old media) to have broken into the school, which, at least, was locked to outsiders. Our neighborhood elementary’s entrance is not locked. (Or it wasn’t before; it may be now.) But would his knowledge that someone in there might be equipped to kill him have slowed him down? Certainly knowing no one could did not.
And will we ever see any discussion of President Clinton’s culpability? Or hear ole Slick Willie wish aloud that he’d given the idea of “gun-free zones” a little more thought?
The law requires parents to send their children to these schools (if they can’t afford private ones or choose to home-school) so the least they should be able to expect is that their child will be defended, not set up as a target to die for some corrupt pol’s agenda.
A good start would be removing Clinton’s idiotic signs. At least keep the mass murderers guessing.
One Texas school district gets it. And more on them here. G-d bless Texas.
Via Instapundit.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 