Replies to post #195424 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[arizona1]

but many of the locals felt that the teachers should have been armed.

Amazing! They call them lazy parasites, union lovers, takers from society and leeches but think they should be armed with semi-automatic weapons. Yep, that's the American brain for ya.

GOP Rep Suggests Teachers Should Be Armed With Assault Rifles



A Republican Congressman suggested that had the teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary been armed with assault rifles, they could have prevented Friday’s massacre and saved lives.

Appearing on a special Fox News Sunday dedicated to the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that an armed teacher or principal could have taken the killer’s “head off before he can kill those precious kids”:

GOHMERT: Having been a judge and reviewed photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have these defensive wounds, gun shots through their arms and hands as they try to protect themselves, and, hearing the heroic stories of the principal, lunging, trying to protect, Chris, I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids. [...]

Watch it:

Pressed by host Chris Wallace on why ordinary citizens need semi automatic weapons that shoot 5 bullets per second, Gohmert said that any restrictions on fire arms could lead to the slippery slope of full prohibition and said that American amass weapons to protect themselves from the government.

“For the reason George Washington said a free people should be an armed people,” Gohmert explained. “It ensures against the tyranny of the government, if they know the biggest army is the American people, then you don’t have the tyranny that came from King George. That is why it was put in there and that’s why once you start drawing the line, where do you stop?”

A Mother Jones analysis of 61 mass murders over the last 30 years found that “in not a single case was the killing stopped by a civilian using a gun.” As one leading expert explained, “given that civilian shooters are less likely to hit their targets than police in these circumstances,” arming civilians could often lead to more chaos and deaths. Law enforcement groups usually oppose state-efforts permitting concealed weapons on college campuses, citing safety concerns.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/16/1342281/gop-rep-suggests-teachers-should-be-armed-with-assault-rifles/

[BullNBear52]

Another memorial service and candlelight vigil. It's really getting old.

I don't know what solice it brings to the families.

What I don't understand is if this kid had mental issues why would you have him even near a gun.

And when are we going to finally ban assault rifles and Glocks.

There seems to be a connection between mass killlings and those 2 weapons.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.

[Max Power]

angry and excellent...thanks... we need more righteous anger in this country...the nice decent people are too nice and decent apparently and we are letting the sharks swim in our kid's pool... time to get a harpoon

[PegnVA]

A "shoe bomber" scares the flying public, and now we all have to remove our shoes when boarding airplanes...33 kids are killed at Virginia Tech by a sick person with guns, and nothing is done to control guns.