As my friend at Bluebird asks, which sign is more affective ?
I remembered my twin grandgirlies staring public school in South Florida, it was behind a barricade of high wire fences with a touch of barbed wire. The front office was armed as a back up. The middle/high school across the street simply had visible armed guards. This district voted for Obama. Sweet hypocrisy, eh?
The Crawdad Hole 
As as far as that silly TSA patting down grandmas and kids in wheelchairs, two credit cards pressed together can slice a throat.
Thanks to Tim McVeigh, we haven’t outlawed fertilizer yet? Why not, it sure would help our environment more than Solyndra? Oh wait….
Dick Durbin (D — Fantasyland) said that Sandy Hooks is the 9/11 of gun control advocates.
I guess I missed the part where they outlawed planes after 9/11.
LOL. In that case, I’m waiting for the 9/11 of peace and love.
Sign on the right is a great solution, but we don’t want to deal with the real problem – what to do about mental illness – we’d rather blame inanimate objects than accept responsibility for our misguided “feel good” efforts. But we all know this.
Mental illness is part of the problem, but I still don’t think that tells the whole story. The worst school tragedy was in 1927 killed 38 kids, wounded 58 more, and involved explosives not guns. The perpetrator was the school board treasurer, allegedly upset because he had lost an election and the economy was bad. Was he mentally ill? I have no idea, but mental illness and violence don’t necessarily go hand in hand.
Good point, though I suspect the treasurer had slipped more than a cog or two. But then and now that question would have been moot if the classroom teachers involved had been “carrying”. And, yes, most teachers wouldn’t want to. But “more” are not “all”, and we set schools up for disaster when we proudly proclaim them as “gun free” zones. Translation: Easy pickings for any nut with a gun.
I approve of that second sign. 🙂
I have no problem with that second sign either. We’ve had an ADT sign in front of our house for 15 years, we’re fine, can’t imagine how much money we’ve saved never actually been connected to it. Though since 2008, my NRA lovin’ hubby wants to replace the sign with “Nothing in this house is worth dying for”. Same husband who once greeted our daughter’s dates while sharpening an axe. 😉
Same husband who once greeted our daughter’s dates while sharpening an axe.
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Found this on AoSHQ — it’s a must see:
https://twitter.com/TheAmericanHour/status/280803895314362369
I heard about that on Rush today (disclaimer: during my daily walkies, Rush is the only thing that gets me through my 4 miles) <—not that I agree with him, but he does entertain me from the dark side 😉
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/280801463448530944
Sidebar: I see Kerry and Dukakis are replacing something, something. Am I the only one laughing at “Forward” ?
Ouch, good one.
Neither sign is appropriate for schools – we’re supposed to be a learning environment. I would be very concerned about the possibility of a student getting a hold of a gun in a teacher’s desk and using it accidentally or on purpose. If the gun is locked away would a teacher have enough time to grab the key to unlock the desk while at the same time calming her students and getting them to safety. Remember schools also have disturbed kids who don’t do well in stressful situations, some won’t listen and sadly some will act up. The tragedy of Newtown could turn into more suffering if supposedly simple solution are applied without any real consideration to students and schools.
Lots of good, safe ways to mitigate that, so your point while important does not prevent that from occurring. What DOES cause a problem, however, is the vain pride many educator-types take in advertising their facilities as unprotected. That’s really weird. The slogan “An armed society is a polite society” refers to evildoers not actually knowing who might or might not be armed, thus exercising some degree of caution before they commence doing evil. Somehow one would think intelligent educators would understand that principle, but alas it seems to be beyond their pay grades.
I know it’s unnerving, upsetting, and scary, but statistically speaking, the chances of a crazy shooting up your kids school is close to zero. So we don’t need either. Though I’d lean towards the one on the right. Case in point, the Colorado movie theater killer tried several theaters first before settling on the one he did his deed, skipping those that had guards.
Believe It or Not Mass Killings Are Not on the Rise, They Are on the Decline
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/associated-press-story-believe-it-or-not-mass-killings-are-not-on-the-rise-they-are-on-the-decline/
So apparently we’re doing something right. Of course, it’s not politically beneficial to promote that concept, so the media and the politicians will carry on about how we’re failing and we need to fix things.
Jaysus. RD’s babbling about the shooter’s Mom being a crazy survivalist “like Glenn Beck.”
Was she always this nuts and we just didn’t see it?
Glenn Beck has been a buzzword for the attack dog lefty failure since 2007. I never had a problem with him. Nice guy.
Somebody who claims to have known Nancy Lanza was quoted as saying something to that effect. It is completely unverified and, IMO, just more of the misinformation this tragedy has generated. But that’s where RD is getting it from.
She’s lost it slowly ever since the 2008 election — the results didn’t “vindicate” that she was *right* and the realization that she no longer belonged to a tribe began eating away at her. Then she lost her job & OWS came along & she jumped over the edge willingly.
From the above excerpt: “If you’re a media member or politician, do you have armed security? Do you have a permit for a gun yourself? (I’m asking you Dianne Feinstein!) If so, what makes your life more valuable than other people’s?”
I thought about this when Bengazi was fresh news and wondered how Obama would feel if he was left in Bengazi in the same manner that Amb. Stevens was left there. How is either one different? An ambassador represents the president in that foreign country, meaning that, the ambassador deserves the same respect and considerations from the host nation as if it were the president himself. I also think about this when I see photos of celebrities going about their daily activities and if you look carefully, they are being protected by bodyguards and ‘secret service lookalikes’.
“Good for me, but not good for thee” is the attitude of those who cry the loudest for gun control.
We don’t have to agree on everything, but I know most of us agree on common sense discussions on stupid politics, right?
As people have already pointed out, both signs are equally ineffective against a determined killer and a truck full of fertilizer.
“Everyone should have guns!” is just as ludicrous as “No one should have guns!”
You keep saying that the counter to “No one should have guns” is “EVERYONE should have guns” — but no one is actually saying the 2nd one outside of the places you get your questionable sources about gun control, which also advocate uploading all of our health records in a national database so the government can more easily keep track of the “mentally ill.”
got this from Rev Amy’s place
help to start families healing
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2038386018001/
Knowing the American spirit of rebellion, the best way to fire up sales is to threaten to ban something. Prohibition sure got a lot of people interested in the alcohol.
stolen from a commenter at No Quarter