Without attacking the Constitution/our Constitutional Rights, how about addressing a few more basic questions, like:
1) Where the heck were the parents? I don't know about 'gun-nut-of-a-father', but how about ABSENT father/mother/parents? this kid just waltzes out of the house with an AK47? Lock these morons up for being bad parents if it can be proven they were negligent! If nothing else fine them/punish them as well - maybe it will teach parents to become more involved!
2) Where was ANYONE else? You can't walk down the street with an AK47, not even hiding it under a trench coat! the fact that this kid made it to and into the school proves not a whole lot of people were paying attention here.
3) Studies have come out to show that a lot of these new video games out for kids might be causing some of this. you might argue that only SOME kids may be affected by this, not all. I would come back and say that some 18, 19, and 20 year olds can drink responsibly but because others have acted totally irresponsibly and broken laws/killed people via drunken driving EVERYONE under the age of 21 must suffer/can not drink. Make these new violent-content games where you kill people/cops/etc (like that columbine game :shock: ) for 21+! Just like predators are targeting our kids on-line, these game companies are targeting our kids with violent games that they are obviously mimicking in real life!
-- Want top argue with me that these games aren't affecting our kids, then start by telling me how kids dressed up like the columbine killers, and mimicking all these video games are shooting up schools. Talk about a lot of the psychologists who have said the graphic violence on these games are making these kids 'immune'/numb to it.
4) Why don't we address how we have become so politically correct that we can no longer discipline kids in school, how a kid can pull a knife on a teacher yet the teacher is not allowed to even defend himself.
-- Case in point, there was a story not long ago about an ex-marine taking a teaching job. kid pulled a knife, tried to slash him, and the marine knocked the kid over a desk, un-conscious. he walked to the office, reported the incident, and went home. the school fired the teacher, and the kid was suspended for a week!?
We are not allowed to touch kids, not allowed to shout at kids, not allowed to discipline kids. My wife is a substitute teacher and was teaching 3RD GRADERS last week. this big, fat obnoxious 3rd grade girl disobeyed her, sat on desks, threw erasers, talked and distrupted class, and disrespected my wife verbally. The school instructed my wife that her only re-course was to keep her in at recess and if she continued her behavior that they would talk to her later. The little girl was finally brought to the Office, taklked to, 7 sent back to class where she continued to disrupt the class. My wife was not even allowed to send a note home to the parents!
When I went to school, we were afraid to talk back to a teacher, and the thought of raising a hand to them never crossed our mind because we were well aware that they could cut our behinds! A little fear is a good thing! today we allow them to go wild because we don't want to offend them or make them feel bad, yet we are surprised that there are drugs in outr schools, fights, violence, and even kids bringing in weapons - killing people!
Welcome to anarchy created by a lack of discipline! How about before we demand that every American citizen give up their weapons and strip away our constitutional rights we try to do the most obvious SANE thing 1st: Drop this political correctness BS, take back our schools, put discipline back in the schools, and hold parents accountable!
If teachers need to have a taser in the classroom to zap the 1st thug who pulls a knife - GREAT! I bet they would only have to do it once or twice! If you want to temporarily put 'School Marshals' in the classroom to do it, eventually lowering the number of guards/'marshals' to just a few on the school grounds once control has been attained more and more, GREAT! Charge the kids with assault!
How about something even more simple: 2nd or 3rd warning, send the kid to the office, call their parents to come pick them up. This will inconvenience most parents, forcing them to address their child's problem. If the parents won't come, have the cops go pick them up and escort them to the school OR lock the kids up at a cell/area at school until the parents coem pick up their kids. Fine the parents for the teachers' salaries for the period (1 hour) of time their child disrupted.
It is the easiest thing in the world to say that it is all the fact that there are guns out there! Question: Several people want to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. How many legal weapons did the columbine perpetrators have? How many illegal guns did they have? My point here is that if you strip guns from everyone, the only people who will have guns will be criminals!
these kids doing the che shootings - they are criminals! Think they wouldn't get guns if they really wanted to do these shootings even if they were outlawed?! Outlawing guns is the 'too easy' answer to this problem and will NOT solve what is going on without addresing some of the questions above 1st!
