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School Shootings Solution
Number Two by Gary Marbut In re: "School Shootings
- Our Answer", I disagree with your solution. Dr. Laura says, take your kids out of the dangerous (in many ways) public
schools NOW. She says to put kids in a private school or home-school them, but
that it's far too risky to have them in public schools. Concerning the school shootings, I believe the best response is a combination
between Dr. Laura's and yours. That is, pull your kids out of the dangerous
public schools and TELL THEM that you will keep your kids out as long as the
schools are government-guaranteed criminal safety zones. If the parent of every student in the school politely asked the school to end
its defender disarmament policy, no change would happen, because the schools are
just not going to roll back the gains they've made on their liberal agenda. The
only way they'll change is if they are genuinely threatened with real loss of
turf because of real out-migration of students. Until that happens, they'll just
dig in their heels, batten down the hatches, and ride out the storm. If just 1/3 of parents followed Dr. Laura's advice and pulled their kids (and
told the schools it was because of the idiotic disarmament policy), the economic
and political bloodletting at the public schools would be so great that the
schools would be beg the Legislature and Congress to change the law. Of course,
as the evacuating kids were streaming out the door, the school personnel would
say, "Hey, it's not our fault, the Legislature and Congress passed the laws
requiring this." They will oh so conveniently forget to tell dissatisfied
parents that the Legislature and Congress passed criminal safety zone laws
BECAUSE the public school establishment lobbied so very vigorously for those
laws, dancing readily to the tune set by those who craft the overall liberal
political agendas. AND, the California Legislature and U.S. Congress are not going to change the
law making schools criminal safety zones as long as the schools are playing the
"save the children" tune in defense of the defense-free schools
policy. So, as Dr. Laura says, kids will be much safer if parents home school them.
And, the public school establishment won't change until they suffer a
significant loss of students. In this discussion, one thing that has always amazed me is the tacit
admission of the education establishment that the education profession is
populated with people who are not bright, competent or emotionally stable enough
to be trusted with guns. If we can't trust them with guns, why on Earth should
we trust them with our children? KeepAndBearArms.com Note: We were in the middle of a draft
called "Skip (Government) School Permanently" where we addressed the
home-schooling approach, but Gary Marbut said it so well we simply published his
version. We do encourage you to read Dennis Jackson's Brainstorming
Responses to School Shootings -- Calling for Your Ideas and, if you have a
few ideas on how to launch a flyer/PR campaign through and then off of the web,
send them to Dennis so we can start applying pressure in communities around the
nation. |
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