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If Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung had access to a gun, might she have prevented a massacre?
AmmoLand Gun News
Washington DC - -(Ammoland.com)- Amid the stories of the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal bravely rushing the shooter on Friday, and of other teachers who covered students with their bodies in an effort to protect them, isn’t it time we rethink our no-guns-on-campus policies and finally allow teachers to defend themselves?
As it stands, the principal, who was unarmed, rushed an armed criminal amid a hail of bullets. Those aren’t very good odds.
Would not the law be more fair if that principal, or any other adult school employee across this nation, had the recognized right to keep and bear arms on a campus just as they do in so many other crowded, public areas?
Before anti-gunners get all lathered up, I’m not suggesting we force teachers to arm themselves or allow reckless individuals who happen to be teachers to be armed on campus. Rather, I’m saying that individuals who have a concealed carry permit, in states where such is required, or meet the other legal requirements to carry a gun, in states where concealed carry permits are not required, ought to be able to use a gun to defend their lives on a campus just as they are able to use a gun to defend their lives in the grocery store, in their homes, in a restaurant, at a gas station, etc.
If we could make this change by abolishing or amending the horrible “Gun-Free Zone Act,” teachers could actually go from offering a failing defense, where they sacrifice their lives to save children, to offering a formidable and successful defense, where a law-abiding citizen with a handgun makes the perpetrator pay with his life on someone else’s terms for a change.
Perhaps the best way to look at this is by remembering that the 2nd Amendment does not grant a right: Rather, it protects a right granted by God through nature (according to our Founders).
Any time the government curtails the exercise of this right, as they do through the Gun-Free Zone Act act, they are necessarily taking upon themselves the burden of protecting all those whom they disarm.
On Friday we were reminded again that criminals aren’t adhering to the no-guns-on-campus policy. So the government either needs to think of a way to keep everybody safe from criminals on campus (which is impossible), or it needs to reverse course and allow law-abiding teachers to exercise their 2nd Amendment-protected rights on campus as well.
If we’ll do this, it won’t take long for criminals to figure out that schools — and the people in them – won’t an easy target any longer.
About:
AWR Hawkins writes for all the BIG sites, for Pajamas Media, for RedCounty.com, for Townhall.com and now AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
His southern drawl is frequently heard discussing his take on current events on radio shows like America’s Morning News, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, the Ken Pittman Show, and the NRA’s Cam & Company, among others. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (summer 2010), and he holds a PhD in military history from Texas Tech University.
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I agree! When they disarm the law abiding citizens, the only people with guns will be the nuts. The other day a husband beat his wife to death in Plant City, Florida with a baseball bat. Should we consider banning baseball bats as well? Government…..quit changing our rights as good citizens and do more to the criminals. Question? Why does it take twenty-three years to execute someone on death row? If their given the death sentence, then why wait? Capital punishment will stop crime, not disarming us!
NRA, GUN CLUBS, CCW INSTRUCTORS NEED TO OFFER FREE OF CHARGE TO ALL TEACHERS AND SCHOOL PERSONNEL FREE TRAINING, FREE GUNS IF NECESSARY.
REPEAL FREE FIRE ZONES
USE CCW AS VOLUNTEERS IN SCHOOLS
IF AIRMARSHALLS CAN OPERATE ON PLANES, CERTAINLY IT COULD WORK IN SCHOOLS
LET’S BE PROACTIVE.
Wow, just some months back the GOP were trying to strip these unqualified, not fit to teach our children, socialist union-belonging, overpaid elitists etc….. their bargaining rights and tenure. Now the best solution you guys can come up with is to give them guns? Who’s gonna pay for the guns and extensive training needed to be proficient with a gun? I’m pretty sure the NRA wouldn’t, new taxes, lol! The killers mother had more than a few guns in her house, how did that work out for her?
Magix5,
You and every other liberal that wants to violate our 2nd Amendment, should lose Your right to Free Speech and all the others, then you might value our Rights.
I bet you even voted for obama the way you attack us. Gun control has failed and the 94 Clinton gun bans that they want to bring back, did Nothing to reduce violent crime. Lets ban Cars, because of the people that drunk drivers kill. Dianne Feinstein wants to ban guns, but she carries a gun, like she is better than the common person. You must like that “let them eat cake” way of thinking! Punish the violent criminals, the cowardly wimp that shot Giffords and killed others didn’t get a death penalty…… life at taxpayer expense.
Years ago in the state of Israel they had a problem with school shootings. Their solution was to train and arm the teachers and principles. Problem solved!
Magix5…Your village called, they want their idiot back.
Steven, you conveniently leave out that military service in Israel is a requirement for most, not all citizens, both male and female. Unlike here in the US, I’m sure that those who are carrying have no criminal record, of sound mind and have had extensive arms training, either in or out of the IDF. Unless you would like to change the US Constitution to make it a requirement for US citizens to enlist, not many gun owners take the time, or have the money to spend on the training and 1000s of rounds of ammo to be confident and proficient with their gun. I don’t think the Israel school system would allow just anyone to carry a gun in school.