Madison, Wis. — -(Ammoland.com)- Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO) — Wisconsin’s only no-compromise gun rights organization — opposes calls by Sen. Chris Murphy for more gun control in the wake of the Robb Elementary school shooting.
The shooting took place in Uvalde, Texas. According to Wisconsin Gun Owners:
30 percent of Texas schools have armed teachers and staff; However, Robb Elementary, where 19 students and two adults were killed, does not appear to be one.
Robb Elementary is among most Texas schools subject to the Federal Gun-Free Zone Act, which prohibits concealed carry on the premises, according to the school’s own rules and codes of conduct.
“Thirty percent of Texas’s schools enjoy armed protection by teachers and staff, and this killer did not choose those schools as his target,” said WGO Executive Director Thomas Leager. “He chose Robb Elementary for a reason — and that is because it was unprotected.”
According to Leager, it was “another example of the dangers of sending our children to schools that are labeled Gun-Free Zones, which are really just Criminal Safe Zones. This tragic event is not a condemnation of the Second Amendment but an example of the dangerous failure of gun control.”
Leager added that Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. would continue to support the right of teachers and school staff to be armed on school property as both a deterrent and defense against madmen that would commit these heinous acts against the most vulnerable among us. The state gun rights organization calls on teachers to approach the issue of self-defense from an educational viewpoint rather than a politicized knee-jerk reaction.
With firearm education on par with police officers’ training — in Wisconsin, that is less than 40 hours of classroom and range training — there is no reason teachers should not be equipped and prepared to defend their students.
About Wisconsin Gun Owners
Founded in 2003, Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO) works tirelessly to restore gun rights in theBadger State. WGO is a 501(c)4 advocacy organization and registered charitable non-profit in theState of Wisconsin. Learn more at wisconsingunowners.org.
Latest is that he had messaged someone that he was going to shoot kill his grandmother and shoot up a school.
There are a lot of facts that are unknown unless you are correspondent working for the news media retired FBI / LEO misleading the public with options that support Biden’s administration or the hollywood assholes that are now putting out their own slant on a terrible hate crime.
Correct decision lock the doors in the schools monitor social media report any persons at the schools who does belong there.
I wish some school would take me up on my long-standing offer to provide free armed security. I’m retired and have the time, but the existing political situation makes it impossible for them even if they’d want me.
As more information unfolds we will learn more
40 BILLION DOLLARS sent to Ukraine. Why not spend it on our school security?
If the statement is true that local police waited over 40 min and would not enter the school to stop the shooter they all should be fired. I do not care about what department rules of engagement read , Those are children that cannot defend themselves against overwhelming force. The correct response is to take the fight to the shooter. There is glory in life without accepting death it is the only answer to life itself. If the statement is true that local police waited over 40 min and would not enter the school to stop the shooter they all… Read more »
I want to know what the Resource Officer did.
HLB
I would like to see Ammoland sponsor a series of articles on school safety.
We, as commenters, can gather information locally and report. I will do that for my area.
We could then submit proposals – in person – to our local governments, and report those results here.
We could do something.
HLB
HLB, this elementary school had no resource officer. Few do. They are most often found in middle schools and high schools.