Our system is brokenâ¦put yourself in a teacher's shoes for just a minute. You work in a safe, gun-free zone, but you suddenly hear shouting and gunshots down the hall. You follow the drill, hide your children best you can and lock your door, putting black paper over your windowâ¦hoping to be overlooked. Next you do what anyone would do, you call 911. You plead for them to bring everyone they have, as fast as they can. You don't hope for tear gas, TASERs or megaphones. You want them to bring guns. You need them NOW. They tell you that they are coming and are only minutes away, but you hear the thunderous booming getting closer to your door by the second. You think franticly to yourselfâ¦if only I had the right to bear arms, hereâ¦now.
The right to bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGEDâ¦how differently would this scenario play out if they had not had this right stripped away from them? I have heard many lately say that this is not the solution, that more guns are not the answer. If your search your heart, putting yourself in the position of a school employee, you have to see that this would have been the one, single, immediate change that could have likely saved so many lives last Friday.
Before you dismiss me as just some nut, you should knowâ¦I come from a long line of teachersâ¦grandparents, parents, my sister, sister-in-law and my wife is a teacherâ¦in Kindergarten. I work defenseless every day in a school myself. My children attend that same school. I feel it. I live it. The fear is gripping, the dangers real.
We will NEVER be able to predict, control or fully regulate the madmen in our society. They are just that, madmen who follow no laws. We CAN restore the rights of the rest of our citizens to better defend themselves.
I hope to never again hear that an incredibly brave individual had to charge an armed madman equipped with nothing but office supplies. God bless that brave Principal for doing everything she could with all WE had allowed her to possess. God bless her. Shame on us that we left her no better options.
The right to bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGEDâ¦how differently would this scenario play out if they had not had this right stripped away from them? I have heard many lately say that this is not the solution, that more guns are not the answer. If your search your heart, putting yourself in the position of a school employee, you have to see that this would have been the one, single, immediate change that could have likely saved so many lives last Friday.
Before you dismiss me as just some nut, you should knowâ¦I come from a long line of teachersâ¦grandparents, parents, my sister, sister-in-law and my wife is a teacherâ¦in Kindergarten. I work defenseless every day in a school myself. My children attend that same school. I feel it. I live it. The fear is gripping, the dangers real.
We will NEVER be able to predict, control or fully regulate the madmen in our society. They are just that, madmen who follow no laws. We CAN restore the rights of the rest of our citizens to better defend themselves.
I hope to never again hear that an incredibly brave individual had to charge an armed madman equipped with nothing but office supplies. God bless that brave Principal for doing everything she could with all WE had allowed her to possess. God bless her. Shame on us that we left her no better options.
