Stop School Shootings
How to Protect Your Children from Gun Violence
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next to a link also means it opens in a new tab.]Fourteen children and three staff died at Stoneman Douglas High School because nobody was armed and able to defend their children - and themselves. Worse, the local sheriff, social services and even the police officer on duty did nothing to protect them. As a result, 17 vulnerable innocents were murdered in cold blood because the law stopped responsible teachers and staff from being able to protect the children. The same story repeated from Aurora in 2012, Sandy Hook in 2012, and Columbine in 1999, …
Yet having killed his mother and two students in Pearl, MS, deranged student Luke Woodham was disarmed by the Assistant Principal’s DEFENSIVE gun retrieved from his truck. Murderous shooting sprees were similarly stopped by defensive guns at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, etc, etc. See here.
Yet having killed his mother and two students in Pearl, MS, deranged student Luke Woodham was disarmed by the Assistant Principal’s DEFENSIVE gun retrieved from his truck. Murderous shooting sprees were similarly stopped by defensive guns at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, etc, etc. See here.
1. The Democratic response to a shooting
Since Democratic leaders along with many of their politicians are protected by armed guards, their denial of your right to defend your family with a gun along with their approval of guns to defend themselves simply proves their rank hypocrisy. As Andrew Kugle’s fine article at American Greatness
says:"The same folks who talk about fraudulent elections, institutionalized racism, and trigger-happy cops, also say only the government's agents should have guns. The contradictions are obvious."
2. Republicans should also respond to each shooting
Yet after every shooting, Republicans can also have a law ready to propose - one instead guaranteed to reduce the slaughter. This would provide a vibrant contrast to the Democrats' deceptive proposals which history has shown will do little or nothing to stop a school shooter from attacking your children.
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Mass shooting inevitably occur in gun-free zones, while millions of defensive gun users thwart millions of violent crimes each year. Unpublished CDC surveys conducted in the 1990s found around two and a half million (2,500,000) defensive gun uses every year.
With the dramatic increase in the number of guns along with the equally dramatic decrease in violent crime, how many DGUs are there each year nowadays?
3. Expert Opinion from a True Authority
Military and law enforcement master trainer, Utah Concealed Weapons instructor, Title 7 SOT gun store owner, competition shooter and expert witness for the Utah State Legislature, firearms expert Larry Correia explains:
"Over the last fifty years, with only one single exception [politician Gabby Giffords], every single mass shooting event with more than four casualties has taken place in a place where guns were supposedly not allowed.”
There's lots more about such deceptive, ostensibly ”sensible" gun control laws here. Could this be why Illinois prohibits guns on campuses, but teachers are training to protect their children anyway.4. Discourage the Bad Guys
Such a law permitting and even encouraging teachers to defend their students effectively deters a mass shooter. The perp knows some of his victims may be armed but does NOT know who will shoot him back...
5. The Personal Protection against Gun Violence Law
"After every mass shooting [whether by a long gun with some military-style features or not], the American people will know that a tool to reduce these massacres is sitting in Congress, ready for debate and a vote."
6. How to decrease Gun Violence
The Personal Protection against Gun Violence Law could, for example:
- Motivate responsible teachers to protect their students. Empower qualified, responsible teachers in each school district to protect their students from a school shooter with a gun while allowing any district to opt out and choose their own policy.
- National Right to Carry. Just like driving licenses, make a gun license issued by one state be automatically valid in all other states.
- Eliminate the 1990 Gun-Free School Zone Act. Before this law passed, there were ZERO mass shootings in schools. Now deranged individuals know teachers and staff in nearly all schools are unarmed and unable to defend their students…
- Affordable concealed carry licenses. Lower the cost of concealed carry licenses by ensuring each state's gun license costs no more than their driving license.
- Accessible concealed carry licenses. Encourage more qualified people to be able to get a gun license by mandating that all gun licensing laws be "shall carry" rather than "may carry."
- Empower Concealed Carry. Specify that momentary disclosure of a gun by a flapping coat does NOT amount to open carry. Allow a concealed carry license to also allow open carry.
- Change Second Amendment litigation rules. Make it easier for gun-owning plaintiffs to secure attorneys fees and costs. Hat-tip to Don Kilmer, San Jose, CA attorney who litigated the Alameda gun-rights case.
- Motivate malpractice insurance. Empower and encourage cities to carry police officer malpractice and wrongful imprisonment insurance.
- Ensure governments do protect their citizens. Establish a federal cause of action against local and state governments for failure to protect their citizens if the injury is proximately caused by an inability to exercise self-defense.
Don Kilmer, San Jose CA attorney says: “If we can get plaintiffs’ lawyers on our side suing municipalities for onerous gun laws, that’s half the battle.” He went on to say “Imagine the discussions the local politicians will have with their risk managers about gun bans in parks and forest land from mountain lion attacks and two-legged predators. Or the sheriff who gets sued when a carjacking goes wrong against someone who was denied a CCW.” see here.
The Personal Protection against Gun Violence Law could also make it necessary for any new restrictive gun laws in the country to have a super majority to pass. Restore mens rea as the requirement to prosecute a violation of any gun law. There's lots more about protecting your children here, here and here:
The Personal Protection against Gun Violence Law could also make it necessary for any new restrictive gun laws in the country to have a super majority to pass. Restore mens rea as the requirement to prosecute a violation of any gun law. There's lots more about protecting your children here, here and here:
7. Gun controls increase violent crime
Now that Britain enforces a near-total ban on guns, the UK Telegraph reports that: "The United Kingdom is the violent crime capital of Europe and has one of the highest rates of violence in the world, worse even than America, according to the European Commission."
The Harvard University Academic study by Professors Kates and Mauser found that violent crime decreases as more citizens have guns. They also found that developed countries which ban guns have murder rates far higher than those with high rates of gun ownership.
"Luxembourg, where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, had a murder rate nine times higher than Germany in 2002."
8. Benefits of Discouraging School Shootings
How can you stop an armed shooter? ’West Virginia University advises ... “act with physical aggression and throw items at the active shooter.” These items could include “student desks, keys, shoes, belts, books, cell phones, iPods, book bags, laptops, pens, pencils, etc.”’ The online references have all disappeared, but do I recall it was past Vice-President Democrat Joe Biden who originally recommended throwing a book at an active shooter? See here and here.
- Effective protection for your children. It's simple to protect your children from a school shooter - just ensure the school has armed teachers to deter or shoot an assailant. If you trust your school teachers to educate your children, they are also trust-worthy enough to protect your children.
- Discourage school shooters. Authorizing responsible teachers and staff to concealed carry to protect their students by default in every school district across the country will give deranged individuals a very strong message - don't do it!
- Very low cost. Teachers defending your children would cost very little. Their school would have an unknown number of defenders and since teachers and staff are already employed by the school, you don't need to pay each School Security Officer's salary.
- More defensive gun uses. Since each and every defensive gun use either stops or lessens the impact of a violent crime, more defensive gun uses means less violent crime. Recent reports confirm continuing democratic and liberal media bias, equivocation and disinformation over many, many years, see here and here.
9. Objections to Discouraging Criminals from Attacking You
Response. But the people who initiate such violence are all violent criminals so we need to discourage them from shooting the innocent. They will not be able to get more guns than they do now, but this law will empower peaceful citizens and responsible teachers to defend themselves, their families, and their children.
The key insight is that violent criminals and mentally disturbed individuals do NOT know who is armed. Discouragement works, James Holmes the shooter in the Batman Aurora movie-theater drove past nearer cinemas to gun-free Century-21 where the ban on defensive guns enabled him to kill 12 people and injure 70.
Those against people and teachers being able to defend their students and their families with a gun pretend that guns kill people. So do cars - cars kill more people per year than guns, although they are more often used for transport people than to offensively kill them. And guns used defensively kill criminals not innocent people and students.
10. What about accidents?
To reduce the number of children dying from accidents then shouldn't you address the biggest killers first? This would mean first banning cars, then swimming pools, medicine, beds, hammers, ropes and don't forget to cut off people's fists.
Ridiculous right? Yes, absolutely, and so is the notion of banning defensive guns. Defensive guns are immensely useful, just as useful as cars, swimming pools and medicine etc. they protect weaker people from violent criminals. That's why major politicians have armed guards...
Cars, swimming pools, and medicine have become far safer today - and so have guns. With double the number of guns today than 25 years ago, while at the same time violent crime has been chopped in half, experience proves more defensive guns are a VERY effective way to decrease gun violence. see www.DiscourageCriminals.net/defensive-gun-uses
Food for Thought
Concealed carry is entirely optional, so discourage violent criminals and terrorists from attacking your people. Encourage your qualified, law-abiding citizens to be able to defend themselves, their family and their property.
Despite media misunderstanding and misrepresentation, Discouraging Criminals by encouraging teachers and staff to be armed is neither mandatory nor compulsory gun ownership. It's your choice whether or not you want your children defended from a mentally disturbed school shooter.