POLL !! Concerning armed staff in schools legislation

[Jerchap2]

I voted. 67% yes just now.

 

[Ruffnek]

67%-32% as of now!

 

[Robin Hood]

Local school boards CAN designate people to carry in their schools.

 

[Snowman366]

The lawmakers don't get it.
"One size fits ALL" solutions rarely work for ALL.

ALL the law needs, is to allow the FREEDOM of each school district to decide for THEMSELVES whether they want to have armed guards in their schools.

Indiana law has always allowed that. The statute says anyone the school district has appointed for school security may possess a firearm on school property. If it isn't mandated, then the unionized pro-Obama teachers and administrators will, by and large, flatly refuse to take steps to protect the kids.

We've had state mandates before regarding school security...and the Indiana education system didn't suddenly collapse because of it.

Right after the incident at Columbine, the state of Indiana passed a law that mandated each school district to adopt a comprehensive emergency response plan, and also mandated that it be reviewed and updated each year...and filed with the state.

That law also required each Indiana school district to appoint someone to be designated as a "school security specialist" and attend such training seminars as the state holds annually.

So, they'll survive a mandate about facilitating serious security measures. You just have to decide who's gonna have the final say about our kids' lives while they're at school...us, or the unionized anti-gun, anti-America libs who think they're calling all the shots with our tax dollars?

I'm a big fan of the Israeli system of each school having a 'security committee', so to speak, and the parents and grandparents taking turns volunteering to work a shift or two each month as armed plainclothes security.

I wouldn't object to volunteers being trained and regulated, either. We have a lot of really fine folks who are prior military or retired LE who are already trained. It's just that the system works better when it's localized, and the folks involved have stake in it, and know each other and their neighborhood.

 

[88GT]

Local school boards CAN designate people to carry in their schools.

Then this law doesn't do anything, does it?

All of you "correcting" edporch need to realize that there is no freedom to carry in schools. One must ask permission first. There is an exception to the law to allow it, but illegal is the default category. That's not freedom. That's "By your leave then, m'Lord."

 

[ziggy]

Wouldn't it make more sense to just change the law re LTCH to allow people with a LTCH to carry in a school and then leave it to the principal and district officials to decide on a school by school basis? That way a BG would have no way of knowing at any time if an armed person might be at any given school. And people with a LTCH would not have to worry about getting out of their car on school property etc.

 

[88GT]

Wouldn't it make more sense to just change the law re LTCH to allow people with a LTCH to carry in a school [STRIKE]and then leave it to the principal and district officials to decide on a school by school basis[/STRIKE]? That way a BG would have no way of knowing at any time if an armed person might be at any given school. And people with a LTCH would not have to worry about getting out of their car on school property etc.

Yes, it would make more sense this way.

 

[Classic]

67% now.

 

[Hemingway]

Humor me: do you have a problem with tax payer dollars being used for other kids or just for kids in private schools?

(I don't know about him, but I think all schools should be private.)

I don't understand the logic of passing a law that makes schools gun free zones and then to fix it, instead of repealing the law, we make ANOTHER law REQUIRING someone to have a gun in the gun free zone?

All government knows how to do is grow.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just eliminate the law that we're trying to fix by passing another law?

Seems like we would learn from the abomination that is the tax code.

 

[Indyhd]

68% affirmative as of my post.

 

[ModernGunner]

I'm a member of A.C.O.R.N., so I voted 12 times in favor!