Another major school shooting today ... Newtown, Conn

Ate the manufacturers manufacturers or assembly lines or distribution depots?

How many parts are there in an AR-15. Where are the parts manufactured?

oralloy wrote:
If someone were suspicious, the guard could issue a challenge and demand that the suspicious person comply with his orders.

McTag wrote:
If the intruder were armed and intent on murder, and the guard issued such a challenge, the smart money would not be on the guard in that situation imho.

oralloy wrote:
Keep in mind that the guard would also be armed, and if issuing a challenge to someone, would also be mentally prepared to react to aggression from the potential bad guy.

Foofie has a good point, with some good suggestions.

I say that gun owners (who are so keen to quote the Constitution) should require to join a militia, well-regulated by training and practices twice or more per week. Army-style physical tests would not be a bad idea either.

Time to break out the heavy weapons, IMO.

Notice that both Diane Feinstein and Pres. Obama are working to ban assault weapons.

Let's have no more of your contention that an assault weapons ban is dead.

Keep in mind Oralloy, if a person is intent on going in and killing, they likely know the layout of the place and will come in with the gun ready to fire. The guard will have to take at least a second or 2 or maybe more to lift the gun and start firing and all while hoping there's nobody in back of the intruder who might be accidentally shot.

Then there are logistics.

How many schools are so small that 1 or even 2 guards would be able to protect the entire building? It's sort of like the schools which say they will leave only one way in and out. Okay, however there are other doors. The intruder can blast that door open and start shooting well before any guard can get to them. So you see, the idea of placing an armed enforcement agent or even a few of them, is ludicrous.

Further, since rarely is a school just one long horizontal line of classrooms, there would be the matter of how can a guard be protecting or doing anything around the corner and 300 feet away? Through a doorway, up or down several steps?

You live in Georgia to?

Notice also that we have a system of courts that would not hesitate to strike it down even if it were actually possible for it to become law.

oralloy wrote:

Notice also that we have a system of courts that would not hesitate to strike it down even if it were actually possible for it to become law.

Notice the difference between Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v The Board of Education.

How many guards will keep them safe?

UOT has 50,000 students, and they are not armed.

How many guards will keep them safe?

Maybe, they can send in the Marines or National Guards.

Just plain stupid to contemplate such a stupid idea.

The 100 largest public school districts had larger average school enrollments compared to the
average for all school districts (673 vs. 514) as well as a higher median pupil/teacher ratio (15.3
vs. 15.0) (table 1).

You can't see the forest for the trees; without guns, those two firemen would be alive today.

is about like trying to get rid of fire.

The apparent [Webster] gunman was found dead at the scene