POLL: Should Minneapolis Teachers Be Allowed Guns In School?
Seward Montessori staffer brought a pistol yesterday.
Wednesday, Seward Montessori was put on lockdown after administrators learned that a staff member had brought a gun to school.
The staff member was keeping the loaded gun in a locked locker, according to an email statement from Minneapolis Public Schools.
"There was no evidence that the employee intended to use the weapon; however, bringing a gun to school is against Minnesota law, violates MPS policy and creates a potentially unsafe situation," the statement read.
The district called police around 8:30 a.m. when the weapon's existance was revealed. The staffer was removed from the building and placed on administrative leave.
The incident follows calls from some politicians to arm teachers and school officials.
According to Minnesota Public Radio, state Sen. Tony Cornish (R-Good Thunder) was pushing the idea as early as Monday.
"It's something that we have to face that all of the laws in the world sometimes aren't just going to work," Cornish said. "The cop can't be everywhere so the best person to defend yourself is yourself."
Where do you stand? Should school staff be armed in an attempt to prevent further school shootings?
Nooz Nik
3:04 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012
30+ years ago, Israeli schools were targeted by palestinian terrorists
Their response was to arm teachers, staff, parents, volunteers and even older High Schools students to protect their little ones.
This response resulted in the followinging:
1) The terrorist attacks stopped. And the terrorists moved on to softer targets.
2) They, nor the children , had ANY problems resulting from guns being in schools
(But then they do teach gun safety at an early age to children, instead of treating guns like a plague-filled blankets to be avoided and ignored at all costs.)
We in the US, went the exact opposite way..
We declared our schools and the surrounding area to be "Gun Free Zones",
More correctly we designated them "Killing Zones for Criminals"
As a result, over the past 30+ years we have suffered a wave of attacks on our schools by killers who happily entered these UNSAFE "preserves" to kill our children in a way best described as " Shooting Fish in a Barrel".
Let's do what the Israeli did.
Remove those stupid "Gun Free Zone" signs, and replace them with signs that say "Armed Adults Ready, Able and Willing to protect our Precious"
The "Lord of the Rings" reference is intentional.
Our children, yours and mine are collectively our "Precious" future.
And we are the insane ones who fail them every time we corral them unprotected in a "Victim Hunting Preserve for the Criminal" or "Gun Free Zone" as some prefer to call them