Geraldo just called FOR a gun in every school!

[O-gre 7]

Who woulda thunk it! He said a LEO or a trained admin. I'm floored.

[Bully 749]

He's a fan. Crazy. But he is.

 

He's also making news by going against the media establishment.

 

C

[Gunrunner26 0]

I worked in a large HS and we had 2 full time SRO (school resource officers) regular city police stationed in the school, armed, full time. Their pay is covered partly by the district and partly by the town. However they are more than just cops in school. A big part of what they do is interacting with the students, and have gained their trust, as well as protect them. This all came about after 9-11. They are great people and are now part of the culture of the school. At first there were concerns about having armed people in the school, would kids be scared, would it be like a jail. But after a time everyone accepted their presence and they are now just an everyday part of school life and viewed as just another part of the staff. God forbid a situation should arise similar to CT, they would be there. Is this the total answer? No, but what is it they say about an ounce of prevention.....

[smoe_picka 0]

I grew up in So Cal and we have had cops in our schools since the 80s. With all the Crips, Bloods, Essays, and Asian gangs the cops were easily out gunned by a few 9th graders. The BofA robbery changed that somewhat but they always used the injured gimpy desk riders or the sweating in air conditioning fatty for SROs. It took 9-11 to bring up arming peelots and its still not very popular.

[Underdog 1,593]

That is probably the most sensible thing I think he has ever said. When he was on TV on Friday he was extremely upset. I know I have felt numb all weekend.

[ruger9 0]

Wow. Add me to the "shocked" list.

[Ray Ray 3,566]

As a Board of Ed employee I agree 100%. How about requiring training every year, make it a take write-off.

[ruger9 0]

Arming the schools is the only immediate answer. Sure, we could re-examine our mental health system, and dump billions into that, and maybe a generation or so from now our kids won't be crazy... but in the meantime, we need to protect our kids, and the only way to do that is arm the schools. Period.

[tony357 386]

our schools have had an officer in them since 9-11 and the doors are locked you cannot get in without being let in, their is a office with a window before entering the school..In my wifes school the officer is in her class he is in the autistic wing.. you can go out the doors but they automatically lock behind you..

[diamondd817 828]

Arming the schools is the only immediate answer. Sure, we could re-examine our mental health system, and dump billions into that, and maybe a generation or so from now our kids won't be crazy... but in the meantime, we need to protect our kids, and the only way to do that is arm the schools. Period.

 

Sometimes we need to fight fire with fire. I for one am for arming schools.

[remixer 1,645]

Makes sense to me.... Allow school administrators to go though training .

[Socom 19]

As a board of education employee I agree also

[mcbethr 42]

I look at it as more of a Flight Deck Officer Program for teachers.

 

We arm some pilots after giving them training, why not put some selected teachers through a program and allow them to carry?

[GRIZ 3,369]

Arming teachers makes sense. I think the NJEA and NEA would have a lot to say about it.

 

I think you still need to have an active or retired LEO to be proactive. If you just arm teachers security becomes just a secondary duty like study hall, cafeteria monitor, or detention. You need to have someone with security as a primary duty.

 

 

[BlueLineFish 615]

Well I can tell you in my town they have uniformed officer at every school. I would love to see it stay that way forever but we all know it wont

[Kasanova 2]

Bayonne High School has an office with atleast 2-4 cops in it all the time. They have been there way before 9-11. They also have the doors open at all times, just in case some one wants to talk or say hey.

 

In Jersey City, Snyder is right next to the Police station, so they dont "need" cops in the school. Ferris has them inside at times, and Lincoln is a block away and has the same mentatliy as Snyder. As for Dickinson, they are there(outside) in the A.M. and after school, never really seen them in school when visiting with my friends.

 

I dont know if things has changed since 2003, but this is how it was when I was in High School.

[BlueLineFish 615]

I bet the students in those three schools are better armed than and potential threat might be. The cops are there to keep them in line and not for their safety

[mattio41 0]

Good to hear, I am not the only person thinking this way...

 

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/12/17/county-police-chief-recommends-arming-school-personnel/

[JackDaWack 2,895]

As a Board of Ed employee I agree 100%. How about requiring training every year, make it a take write-off.

I would do it every month or bi-weekly. I'm sick of feeling like some kind of target and being unable to even assure the kids they are safe when I don't even feel safe.

[KpdPipes 388]

He's a fan. Crazy. But he is.

 

He's also making news by going against the media establishment.

 

C

 

Yes and No..he has also been voval about "Assault Weapons" and people who own them

[GRIZ 3,369]

He's a fan. Crazy. But he is.

 

He's also making news by going against the media establishment.

 

C

 

Geraldo is also calling for an AWB calling them WMD.

 

Arming the schools is the only immediate answer. Sure, we could re-examine our mental health system, and dump billions into that, and maybe a generation or so from now our kids won't be crazy... but in the meantime, we need to protect our kids, and the only way to do that is arm the schools. Period.

 

This is the real answer to the problem. I think "they" are afraid of finding out the real reason for a lot of health problems. There is too much overdiagnosis is one. For example if a kid refuses to do schoolwork he is diagnosised with ADD. The kid is then put in a school for children with "specialized needs", where they convince the kid there is something wrong with him or her, and don't forget the behaivior control drugs.

 

A friend of mine's son has been diagnosed with ADD. His wife insisted on putting him in private school and pscychiarist prescribed meds. The kid doesn't seem to have a problem with ADD when he's playing video games, building Legos, watching movies or cartoons, or doing anything he wants to do. He only has a problem with schoolwork. I am not as psychologist but I think if you have ADD you have it with everything. The kid has been spoiled with whatever he desired his entire life. I told my friends IMO the kid is just lazy. The school psychologist diagnosing the kid with ADD serves at least two functions for the school. It gets them money for a special needs kid and/or rids them of a discipline problem. The kid is also convinced there is something wrong with them. They believe they have this problem and are not responsible for what they do. The problem is the reason they do something wrong. There are no bad kids.

 

AFAIC this is only one problem of many the mental health system has.

[JackDaWack 2,895]

 

 

Geraldo is also calling for an AWB calling them WMD.

 

 

 

This is the real answer to the problem. I think "they" are afraid of finding out the real reason for a lot of health problems. There is too much overdiagnosis is one. For example if a kid refuses to do schoolwork he is diagnosised with ADD. The kid is then put in a school for children with "specialized needs", where they convince the kid there is something wrong with him or her, and don't forget the behaivior control drugs.

 

A friend of mine's son has been diagnosed with ADD. His wife insisted on putting him in private school and pscychiarist prescribed meds. The kid doesn't seem to have a problem with ADD when he's playing video games, building Legos, watching movies or cartoons, or doing anything he wants to do. He only has a problem with schoolwork. I am not as psychologist but I think if you have ADD you have it with everything. The kid has been spoiled with whatever he desired his entire life. I told my friends IMO the kid is just lazy. The school psychologist diagnosing the kid with ADD serves at least two functions for the school. It gets them money for a special needs kid and/or rids them of a discipline problem. The kid is also convinced there is something wrong with them. They believe they have this problem and are not responsible for what they do. The problem is the reason they do something wrong. There are no bad kids.

 

AFAIC this is only one problem of many the mental health system has.

kids don't go into programs unless they have a severe learning disabilty, being distracting and having adhd doesnt get a student into a program. Having an IEP and being classified doesn't mean they get thrown into a program it just means that teachers have to deal with it in the classroom. The only time I have seen schools get money and remove kids from matriculation is for autism and serious learning disabilities. ADHD gets you a prescription and an IEP. Which doesn't do anything to solve the problem really. Schools would rather not diagnose from my opinion. It cost them way more then they receive.

[Duppie 73]

I find it very difficult to find solace in anything Geraldo and FOX has to say as both entities have little credibility and I believe would only prove to be an other example of silted tabloid journalism for the Anti Gunners to hold high in this battle.

And make no mistake we're battling earnestly for our rights at this water shed period in history.

[GRIZ 3,369]

kids don't go into programs unless they have a severe learning disabilty, being distracting and having adhd doesnt get a student into a program. Having an IEP and being classified doesn't mean they get thrown into a program it just means that teachers have to deal with it in the classroom. The only time I have seen schools get money and remove kids from matriculation is for autism and serious learning disabilities. ADHD gets you a prescription and an IEP. Which doesn't do anything to solve the problem really. Schools would rather not diagnose from my opinion. It cost them way more then they receive.

 

Thanks for your insight on this. The situation I related is in another state so I'm not sure if the same rules apply everywhere. One thing I didn't make clear is the school didn't remove this kid. They suggested that he would do better in a specialized private school. It seems he only has ADHD with schoolwork never with anything else. The kid has created discipline issues in school. I think the school made the diagnosis and suggestion to get rid of a discipline problem. It seems to me this kid needs discipline and not meds or psych treatment. He just "acquired" ADHD over summer vacation. I sont think a kid develops ADHD over summer ??vacation. There are other issues involved as his mother is "over attached" to the point she trusts no one to leave the kids with. No babysitters ever. Not even her own sisters.

 

Mine may not be the best example but it seems that a kid that misbehaves is not undisciplined. Todays system says they have a "problem" and they all need special treatment and meds. I've seen parents complain there is something wrong with their kid because the kid only gets Cs (and maybe sometimes a B or a D). That's average performance. We all are not rocket scientists. A lot of people don't want their kid to be average and things like ADHD seem to be used as a scapegoat. The kid's performance never improves so the "disability" is the reason for "average" results. There are plenty of people who are just average. The overdiagnosis and medication of kids is one of the problems with what's been done the past 20-30 years.

 

 

[JackDaWack 2,895]

You should see what is in some of the IEP's it's down right rediculous. Instead of solving the issue they basically just work around it. Every state is different but I would say that NJ is one of the better and it still makes me sick that we treat the condition and not the child. Many issues stem from home life, schools can't fix bad parents. We have a kid doing half his homework contacted the parents many times and still the problem persists, it's not a lot or even hard homework just basic reinforcement, come high school this kid will have very little work ethic. Doing the bare min.

 

I think there is a lot of merit in your opinion on The drugs we have been feeding kids, laundry list of side effects that are worse then the actual condition. Then you have the fact that we start to diagnose kids with a narrow spectrum. Your kid has trouble focusing in class but seemingly can play a video game for hours on end? then the problem isn't focus because if had a problem focusing it would be across the board. The kid merely has no discipline to complete his responsibilities. So there solution is to feed him drugs like speed to FORCE him to concentrate... force is never a positive reinforcement. Some of these kids play sports, and you never see them wondering around the field being disruptive like they do in the classroom, unfocused and uninterested.

[MarkWVU02 47]

As a teacher I'm all for having staff ccwing. We have two months off in the summer where we could be trained by and with police officers. We could be subject to qualifications the same way. I'd gladly volunteer my time if they provided the training. We need to accept the fact that crazy people are going to do crazy things. Why sit back and wait for the next shooting? One armed staff member could change the outcome entirely. People shoot up schools because they know they'll have 5-10 minutes before police respond. There could be a lot of damage done in that time.

 

This morning I walked into my principals office and volunteered to spearhead a security committee that can look at better securing the building. We don't always see eye to eye but she was all for it. Can't wait to get to work on it actually. We need to make safer more secure schools.

[n4p226r 105]

As a Board of Ed employee I agree 100%. How about requiring training every year, make it a take write-off.

 

How about paying it out of the taxes. It would be the first time id gladly let me taxes go up

[woodentoe 14]

As a teacher I'm all for having staff ccwing. We have two months off in the summer where we could be trained by and with police officers. We could be subject to qualifications the same way. I'd gladly volunteer my time if they provided the training. We need to accept the fact that crazy people are going to do crazy things. Why sit back and wait for the next shooting? One armed staff member could change the outcome entirely. People shoot up schools because they know they'll have 5-10 minutes before police respond. There could be a lot of damage done in that time.

 

This morning I walked into my principals office and volunteered to spearhead a security committee that can look at better securing the building. We don't always see eye to eye but she was all for it. Can't wait to get to work on it actually. We need to make safer more secure schools.

 

I was having a conversation with my wife about it. We watched loony Louie Gohmert talk about how he wished the Prinicpal had an assault rifle so she could "take his head off". While I'm not one to wantt o agree with Louie Gohmert about anything and the image he conjured was a bit bs....

 

I made the case that the vast majority of these active shooters are basically pussies. They attack soft targets and upon initial contact with armed resistance, they often self-terminate. Similar to the active shooter in Oregon. A licenced civilian drew his weapon and pointed it at the perp. That combined with his jamming problems with the rifle had him offing himself.

 

If confronted by an armed administrator, teacher or marshall...this could have ended much more quickly.

 

My wife was pretty upset and emotional, but I explained that what happened was that this monster had 10 minutes alone with these kids. 10 minutes until the police came in and he got the impression that he was made. We know that the principal and her colleagues were willing to sacrifice their lives without hesitation to try and stop him...with NOTHING in their hands! If he had to trade gunfire with armed resistance. That 10 minutes could have been shaved to 5 or three...or 30 seconds.

 

I reject the argument that having a trained and licenced civilian engage the active shooter would have made this WORSE. How could it have been worse? He was unimpeded for 10 minutes, had enough ammo to do everyone in the building. But, when the good guys show up, he punches out.

 

The hero women that charged this man were the good guys. They had no equalizer, and he had nothing to fear from them.

 

boggles my mind.

[ruger9 0]

How about paying it out of the taxes. It would be the first time id gladly let me taxes go up

 

+100. Or we could just remove the legislators LIFELONG pensions and LIFELONG healthcare to pay for it. After all, it's "for the children".

[Rifleman1 32]

How about paying it out of the taxes. It would be the first time id gladly let me taxes go up

 

Front Sight Training Institute is still offering free training courses for Educators... Perhaps other Firearms Training Outfits would do the same.

 

 

"Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, arguably the world leader in providing intensified courses in the defensive use of firearms for private citizens, has the answer to stopping further attacks on school children. Front Sight will once again offer free firearms training to any school administrator, teachers, or full time staff members designated as school Safety Monitors.

 

Front Sight will accept for training up to three staff members from each school, college or university. Applicants must submit a letter requesting training on school letterhead signed by the top school district official and designating the applicant as the school's Safety Monitor.

 

Please forward this e-mail to your state and federal legislators, local law enforcement departments and your child's school administrator, as well as your friends and family, asking them to do the same."

 

 

Dr. Ignatius Piazza

For Immediate Release: Monday, December 17, 2012

 

Please Forward to Your Local Newspapers, Radio Stations, and Television News Stations

 

Back in 1999 I gave our nation the solution to stop innocent children from being slaughtered.

 

Every year since then, I have given the nation the solution. Isn't it time our nation allows Front Sight to provide the solution, free of charge?

I'm angered that more children have to die when I have the solution for every school in America and I am willing to pay for it.

 

Subject: Gun School For Teachers

Las Vegas, Nevada: In the wake of the yet another senseless school massacre, I ask all our politicians, law enforcement officials, and school administrators one simply question:

 

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP AS A NATION AND PROTECT OUR CHILDREN?

How many more children have to die before we will find the testicular fortitude, as a nation, to put in place REAL policies that will stop a deranged gunman in his tracks, before he can commit mass murder on innocent and defenseless children?

How many times do I have to offer the nation THE solution?

 

What the hell is wrong with the leaders of our country? Find a pair, and make the RIGHT decision to protect our children, not more of the wrong decisions that create the opportunity for the next lunatic to murder at will with zero resistance!

 

Once again, Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, arguably the world leader in providing intensified courses in the defensive use of firearms for private citizens, has the answer to stopping further attacks on school children. Front Sight will once again offer free firearms training to any school administrator, teachers, or full time staff members designated as school Safety Monitors.

Front Sight will accept for training up to three staff members from each school, college or university.

Applicants must submit a letter requesting training on school letterhead signed by the top school district official and designating the applicant as the school's Safety Monitor.

 

Please forward this e-mail to your state and federal legislators, local law enforcement departments and your child's school administrator, as well as your friends and family, asking them to do the same.

 

Guns and Teachers

As Front Sight's Founder and Director, I understand my offer to train armed school teachers may offend some school administrators and parents who do not see arming and training selected school staff members as a positive solution to violent attacks. However, historically, my approach has worked while gun control has actually increased violent crime by shifting the balance of power to favor the criminals and lunatics.

 

My offer is not a new idea. In the early 70's, Israel was faced with much greater problems of armed terrorist attacks on schools. The cry for more gun control was heard then too, but Israel very carefully analyzed all possible options before adopting the proactive position of arming and training their teachers. School shootings stopped and terrorists looked for easier targets. Gun control never has and never will stop criminals and madmen from carrying out acts of gun violence.

Here is the reason why there are no school shooting in Israel. Wake up America!

 

In our country, every time a misguided individual on psychiatric drugs goes on a killing spree, anti self-defense legislators, watch the polls and exploit the dead victims in order to fool the public into accepting more gun control. It is time our country finds some resolve and the will to tackle the real problem, which is rooting out the actual influences in the lives people hat predispose them to commit atrocities. The problem is not guns. Guns don't cause these incidents to occur any more than cameras cause child pornography or automobiles cause traffic fatalities.

 

Israel had the right answer. Society is safer when we train and arm our law abiding citizens. As the defensive training leader in the USA, Front Sight is willing and able to set the example for the rest of the country to follow.

 

Armed Teachers

Dave Clark, who recently retired after teaching for the last 25 years at Junction Junior High School in Livermore, California agrees with Front Sight's philosophy. In fact, Mr. Clark has previously attended a Four Day Defensive Handgun course at Front Sight at his own expense and found the course to be exactly what is needed to train fellow teachers to stop an attack similar to Columbine school and Virginia Tech. "Front Sight provides safe and responsible training to a level that exceeds law enforcement standards." Says Mr. Clark. "Among the many lessons taught, I learned universally accepted rules in justifiable use of deadly force. More importantly, I learned when not to shoot and how to be more mentally prepared to see a lethal confrontation coming before it happens in order to avoid it. The firearms training is second to none and clearly gives the graduates the skill needed to save the lives of those in their charge if ever attacked. If my school district chose to adopt a policy of sending selected teachers to Front Sight for concealed handgun training, I would wholeheartedly support it and volunteer as a Safety Monitor. There is no reason for our children to continue to be victimized when free, professional training is available to stop school attacks."

 

Guns in Schools

There is evidence that a gun in the hand of a teacher will stop an armed attacker. The vice-principal of a school in Pearl, Mississippi used his handgun to stop and detain an armed killer until the police arrived. It seems obvious that armed and trained staff members inside the school are in a better position to identify the attackers and do something immediately to resolve the situation. It is much harder for police, who arrive on the scene too late to stop the killing.

 

Lawmakers With Blood on Their Hands

An obstacle to training and arming teachers is the current law in many states prohibiting the possession of firearms on school grounds even when the possessor is qualified and has a concealed weapons license.

Understand that those laws did not prevent or stop the gun violence at numerous schools over the last ten years. The brazen attacks in school after school during the last decade indicate criminals have concluded that 'Gun-Free-School-Zone' actually means 'Government Certified, Helpless and Unarmed Victim Zone.'

 

Schools Can't Afford to Pass on No Cost Security

Most school districts cannot afford to have even one full time police officer in every school, but they can easily afford to train three or more of their selected staff members to a higher level of firearms training than offered in police academies because Front Sight will provide the training at no cost.

 

Retired law enforcement firearms instructor, Mike Waidelich from Bakersfield, California strongly supports the Front Sight concept of arming and training teachers. "Nearly every tragedy on or off school grounds in the entire 30 years of my law enforcement career could have been prevented or the damage done considerably limited, by the presence of an armed and trained individual."

 

Concealed Guns

The training provided in Front Sight's basic training classes easily exceeds the training provided in most police basic training academies.

Front Sight proved it on their nationally televised reality series Front Sight Challenge. 80 Seasoned law enforcement officers from around the country went head-to-head in tests of marksmanship, speed and tactics against 80 private citizens-- including teachers-- who had not received any training other than Front Sight's firearms courses. Remarkably, the Front Sight trained, private citizens won over half of every contest.

 

Teachers will be trained to carry a concealed weapon, so potential attackers will not know which teachers are armed and which are not. In states that have adopted concealed weapon laws for private citizens, violent crime has dropped. School attacks will drop as well once it is known that any of the teachers and staff members on school grounds have the ability and training to stop a violent attack immediately.

There is also scientific research that supports Front Sight's stance on concealed weapon training from John Lott, Jr. at University of Chicago School of Law who published Crime, Deterrence and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns in July 1996. Mr. Lott's research of cross-sectional time-series data from all 3054 U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992 found that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crime and appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed handgun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly.

 

Gun Control Increases Violent Crime

How many times must we experience another Littleton, Colorado or Virginia Tech or Newtown Connecticut massacre before we wake up, study the research and adopt policies which actually reduce crime and begin saving our children instead of leaving them helpless victims when the next psych drug user snaps?

 

Gun control increases violent crime yet some politicians continue to tout disarming law abiding citizens as a solution. Front Sight has a better solution.

 

Arm and train school teachers to carry a concealed weapon. And post a DIFFERENT sign outside of ever school!

Look for the RIGHT sign all over America. They are in front of the homes of armed and trained Front Sight students. If you were a deranged murderer, which house would you invade? One with an armed and trained occupant with a Front Sight sign or one who had a "Gun Free Zone" sign in his yard? The answer is simply to any rational person.

WHY ARE SCHOOLS ANY DIFFERENT?

 

Don't have a sign? Get one here: http://www.readytode...com/frontsight/

Front Sight Yard Signs

 

 

Front Sight Window Decals

 

 

 

It is time WE WAKE UP and start providing REAL protection for our children in schools. Front Sight stands ready, willing and able to train every teacher in America if that is what it takes! Help us protect your children by demanding YOUR school send their teachers to Front Sight!

Sincerely,

Dr. Ignatius Piazza

Founder and Director

Front Sight Firearms Training Institute

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Windsor, CA 95492

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