Security in the Classroom

Our Constitution prohibits government from controlling the media although; Abraham Lincoln did close various newspapers critical of his administration. Congress let him violate the Constitution. Do we want to throw the Constitution under the bus?

These shootings cannot be prevented because we do not understand what security requires. I am interested in hearing how the security measures in place in Sevier County schools would have prevented the Newtown shooting. The fact of the matter is they will not. Our security only annoys those who feel compelled to go along with it.

Security requires multiple armed guards inside and outside all school buildings positioned far enough apart so they cannot be neutralized as a group with weapons in hand ready to be fired. Attack dogs would help especially if they were permitted to run loose at least outside the buildings. Security requires guards be placed on the roof of every school building as well as on the perimeter. Security requires the protected live in a prison. Security requires we lockup every person who looks like a threat, remember the internment of anyone who looked Japanese at the beginning of our participation in WWII? How do you lockup all those who look like Timothy McVeigh? Regardless, we are not ready to do that. We live in a free society and citizens have the right to own and carry weapons. Imagine if the principal as well as the teachers at Newtown had been trained and armed.

I know a woman who teaches in the California prison system. She was trained in hand to hand self defense as well as how to fire a weapon effectively (i.e. to kill). The doors of her classrooms have windows so guards can keep watch and there is a yellow line that separates her from her students. She is instructed to never cross that yellow line and that my friend is security in the class room. Are we ready?