Gov. Bob McDonnell said on Tuesday that it may be time to explore the idea of arming teachers and other school officials.
The Republican governor made his remarks in an interview Tuesday on WTOP. His remarks came during a discussion of the killing of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., on Friday.
The governor was asked: "What about the idea of allowing people — adults, supervisors, principals, teachers — to be armed inside the public schools of Virginia?"
"I know there's been a knee-jerk reaction against that," McDonnell said. "I think there should at least be a discussion about it."
"If people were armed, not just a police officer but other officials who were trained and chose to have a weapon, certainly there would have been an opportunity to stop aggressors from coming into a school."
"So I think that's a reasonable discussion that ought to be had," he said. "The key is don't overreact — really get to the bottom of what works and what can make a difference."
"If a person like that [principal in Connecticut] was armed and trained, could they have stopped the carnage in the classroom? Perhaps."
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Carol, where on Earth in human history have unarmed people EVER been protected from criminals and tyrants? If you do not understand this principle, you do not understand what liberty is, and what is necessary for securing it--enshrined in our 2nd Amendment: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Where on Earth in human history have unarmed people EVER been protected from criminals and tyrants? If you do not understand this principle, you do not understand what liberty is, and what is necessary for securing it--enshrined in our 2nd Amendment: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." By the way, the militia is every adult male in the population, in case you didn't know.
The purpose of the 2nd Amendment (and a large part of the whole point of the American revolution; American exceptionalism) is that an armed citizenry keep the government in check, not the other way around. Unfortunately, we have mostly abandoned this paradigm. Even our ordinary police forces have become increasingly militarized...
I agree that we must attack the problem at its root--the corruption of our young people, the destruction of the two-parent intact family by the Marxist welfare state, etc., the media and video games, etc.--but to leave our kids as sitting ducks is just insane. Stop with the nonsense.
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