New Jersey Town Plans to Place Armed Guards in Schools

[anon-8q9r]

The mayor of Marlboro Township in New Jersey said Friday there would be armed security guards at the district's nine schools starting in January http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/marlboro-new-jersey-armed-guards-schools-newtown-nra-reaction-184514471.html

[publius-109q]

Thats a waste of time.
You should give guns to the kids!!!
Start 'em young in Kindergarten.
Thats what the NRA wants.
A chicken in every pot and an assault rifle in every house.
Make the kids guns look like those six-shooters from the old Western movies. The kids can practice by challenging each other to a quick draw contest everyday at high noon.
Make it fun for everyone!
Have shooting practice in gym class.
NAHHHHH..........................you'd never get past thet dern teacher's union.
Dern unions!!!

[anon-o690]

At least one town in NJ has some common sense. It's quite funny how two NY newspapers that called the NRA president crazy for wanting this are now the laughing stock of the internet.

[anon-97on]

[anon-pp46]

What most of us find unnerving is that schools are to act" in loco parentis" or in place of parents. Schools are responsible for keeping our children safe. The other places you mention are public places, and we would think twice before leaving our children in these places without us.

[publius-109q]

The NRA just wants to abuse, not use, the 2nd amendment to advance its stated goals. It's less about "freedom & liberty" and more about selling guns and ammunition. There are big $$$$$$$$ in arms and ammunition. Thats why our own government sells our surplus crap to other countries. We don't care how or where they are used, just collect the cash and spew some garbage about defending "democracy". More like defending hypocrisy.
Recall how upset people where when they learned that Saddam Hussein used deadly gas on his own people?
Pishaw!!!!!!
How awful.
Know who sold him the gas?
Donald Rumsfeld.
Our very own Sec. of Defense under President Cheney..........ur...um........I mean Bush.
My point is that so long as there is big bucks in weaponry, there will be those out there who will exploit the laws to THEIR own benefit to the detriment of others.
Fear mongering leads to weapons sales and weapons sales leads to an arms race.
Either only police and the military can have weapons, or nobody can have them. Once someone has one, than EVERYONE wants one to protect themselves from that other guy.
See how it works?
The NRA exists to stir the pot and make everyone afraid so that guns sales will skyrocket.

Thats their ONLY goal in life!!!

[anon-0n08]

[anon-6068]

[publius-109q]

It doesn't even really matter what the 2nd amendment says.
It's all in how the Supreme Court interprets what is said.
Being that Scalia is in league with the right-wing...he interprets the Constitution the way that his cronies want him to interpret it.
See how it works?
Just like the selection...........I mean election of 2000 in Gore V Bush.
If you don't think that judges are political, then I have a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn I can let you have for next to nothing.
Just cuz I like you.
Unless the 2nd amendment is changed (NEVER happen)we are stuck with how people read it and what they read into what it says.

I wish that someone would've proofread it before they signed it!!!!!
To me, it doesn't say that anyone with a pulse can have ANY weapon that they can afford to buy. When the Constitution was written, the gun of choice was a single-shot, muzzle-loaded, smooth-bore musket or a slightly rifled rifle. I don't believe that the framers wanted average people to be better armed than the average militia man. Where do you draw the line? Does that mean that I can have my own tank, like that crazy DuPont guy down in Delaware? I don't think so.
Interpretation is 99% of the law!

[anon-97on]

[mrfun-109q]

Scalia is a slug!!!

[anon-8q9r]

Staten Island panel mulls placing retired police into NYC schools http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/staten_island_panel_mulls_plac.html#incart_river_default