bersaguy

I grew up in a town of 5500 people and in that town we had 3 Catholic schools 1 public grade school from 1st grade - 8th grade and 1 public high school.. All the Catholic schools ended at 8th grade and everyone attended the High School. In all my years of attending school if there was a fight between high school students they would be sent to the Dean of students and if they could not work out their issue they were taken to the Gym and both boys were fitted with boxing gloves that weighed 1 pound each and they were told to go at it. There was seldom a winner. Those 1 pound gloves wore both guys down pretty quick and they would both just agree to quit and most times walked away friends. To my knowledge there was never a gun found in the school. it was always a fist fight. MY friend that still lives up there told me a while back that now ever so often without notice the police will show up at the school with John Doe search warrants and search students cars for drugs and firearms acting on a tip but seldom is anything found. That never took place when I was a student there.

We have a large tree here that is becoming a concern and my Son- in-Law is considering having it cut down. I told him I would ask if we had any folks here that does that type of work.

Fact is a murderer will find a way to get their hands on a weapon to kill people. I read the article but never found the part about the good guy with the gun.

That is because for the most part schools are gun free zones and a soft target. Also along with all the armed Guards at all the Government locations mentioned most Congress and the Presidents have Secret service everywhere they travel to.

I agree that most teachers don't want to pack a gun to teach. As far as that bill for using veterans. You are expecting miracles if you think the Congress is going to move on any bill in a week.

I know that and the problem is there are about 7 Conservatives that many times will side with the Democrats on some issues and if 4 join the Democrats they can get a majority. Then the only chance would be a Filibuster which Rand Paul is preparing if it is needed but it will be a tough battle.

With all due respect to every one on TGO that have school age children. Can you honestly put a price on how much money should be provided to their school to protect them while they are in school? I don't really care if a child can afford to attend a private school or is in a public they both deserve the same amount of protection which right now many don't get. We have a Governor that is working on fixing that and I am behind him 100%. If I was 10 or 15 years younger and in better health I would volunteer too be an SRO person at the Gordonsville school that is 7 miles from my home. As far as the action the Metro officers a week ago. I am very glad they were there and did the job needed. I agree with David that waiting on a public security team would have been a grave mistake. It would have been a ULVADE all over again.....JMHO on last statement.

The locked doors means nothing. The doors at the school were all locked last Monday and the shooter shot her way through them.

Well considering the shape the roads are in the gas tax is not working very well.

I read an article today from NAGR that said Biden is looking at signing the US on to the treaty! It has to be approved by the Congress but it is going to be a tough race in the Senate as right now it's 51-49. They said that a Filibuster might not even be able to stop Biden. It will have to be the Congress.

What will pay the road repairs when all the electric Vehicles take over and the gas vehicles are almost non-existant?

They are my rights also. I grew up in Illinois to age 16 when my Mother and Father became the proud owner of my Grandfathers Ranch/Farm of a little over 2000 acres. He was getting to old to run it so he gave it to his only child which was my mother. Now back to Illinois, I grew up hunting and fishing from about age 8 and had a buddy that I hunted with till we moved and I got my first 4.10 shotgun at age 9 and I rabbit hunted and squirrel hunted and we ate everything I killed. My mother was a great cook. At age 11 I got a 20 gauge pump gun and began bird hunting along with everything else. We lived in a small town out in the farm country and all the farmers let us hunt their land. We live in the country but would walk to town and eat lunch in a meat and 3 my mother cooked at and buy ammo while there and most times we took our guns with us and hunt on the way back home and nothing was ever thought about it. The police would wave at us if they saw us. I still keep in touch with my hunting buddy I hunted and fished with and He said if he knew what was going to happen to Illinois He would have moved to Kentucky long ago as he has family there. I was shocked when I heard he had sold his collection of Winchester Model 12 Pumps. He had 24 of them in every grade and gauge. He quit shooting trap and skeet and hunting 12 years ago. He has his Stevens 311 double for house protection and a Ruger Black Hawk too. He said it got impossible to find a place to hunt so he just quit. When I first moved down here I would have a rifle and shotgun in the back window of my pickup at school. Would go hunting after school. I would never try that today. So like I said, TFA is fighting for my rights also. I will shut up now!!!

I was laying in bed last night watching TV and the news came on and they talked about the storms for a few minutes and then switched to the shooting and showed pictures of the children and adults and began reporting the same stuff they reported all last week. My first thought was how do the victims families begin to heal when the news is still showing their pictures and keep talking about it? We are talking about school security which is a subject that needs to be addressed and not posting about the Victims. It is my opinion that the news needs to move off that subject.

Back when my 2 boys were school age and had attended a public school through the 4th grade I looked at putting them in a private school. It would have stretched my budget but I left the final decision to my boys. They chose the public school because they had many friends in the public school so public school it was. I didn't want them to go to a school they did not like. Both of my sons were on the Honor Roll every year and they loved their school. I have no regrets.

Well as of an hour ago I am now a paid member of the TFA organization. I took the advice of all the members here. Thanks to all of the replies I received.

There has been discussions about what schools parents can send their children to and the scant funding that public schools receive to operate. Of course most parents would like to send their children to a good school and feel safe about their choice. TCS is located in one of the more upscale neighborhoods being Green Hills but it didn't really matter last Monday. If it would not have been a former student from there I don't think the school would have been targeted....IMO

Might need to look into that judges background!!!! See what he does in his spare time.

Adam Lanza was 20 years old when he did the shooting at Sandy Hook which was a school he had also attended years earlier. He shot and killed his mother before going to the school.

I think you and I are close to being on the same page. I would have never thought TCS would have been a target and it took a former student that had attended school there to be the shooter. That is along the same line as Sandy Hook. Adam Lanza was a former student at Sandy Hook also.

Tell me if I am out of line here but it appears that we are drifting towards putting a price on each Child instead of looking at a solution that addresses the security of all children in all schools. With the technology available today a well trained SRO with the right technology could secure any school. JMHO

OK, I can agree with this idea but what are better schools? There have been school shootings in some of the best schools in the country and some of the average schools. How does a parent choose a school that won't have what happened Monday happen there as well. I think the security issue needs to be addressed first....JMHO

Just so folks know, I did get a reply back to my Veteran idea from two elected officials and they said a similar idea was already being kicked around and being looked at. I have a veteran buddy that I use to go to the range with before I moved out here and he said he would be glad to become a security person at a local school. We spoke on the phone Thursday after he saw all the videos and he said that the cameras showed the shooter shooting out the door glass and that there was two short clips of the shooter outside prior to shooting the glass out. He said that when the shooter stepped through the second door she should have been shot right then. I agreed with him because he said that when she was seen outside in that short film clip with those weapons there was no doubt what her plans were and he would have been ready when she entered the building.

Back a few years ago I wrote to a few of our elected officials about an idea if using Veterans as security in schools. It could be a plan that could be easy to do. Most Veterans could use the extra income and Veterans live all over the country so that means most if not all live close to a school. They are all trained with firearms and would not run from an armed intruder but would move toward them and take them down. Just an idea!!!!

Well I guess I will be looking into joining the TFA I'm not a member of the NRA any longer. I parted ways with them several years back and been looking for a new group to be part of..... Thanks for all the replies.

Thanks bigun. I have been getting emails from them and read some of them and I was just wondering about joining them.