Kid shot dead in school today

[Woody]

 Glad your beloved is OK. It's the school and it's socialist teachings and policies. A gun free zone is a free target zone. But wait, he had a gun, and it was nipped in the bud. Proof right there that guns in the wrong hands kill, but in the right hands protect life. What do the parents have to say?

[Badgersmilk]

Nobody I've heard is faulting the officer at all!  I AM shocked.  But most parents and kids have met the guy, and he just a really nice person to know!  Most of the parents are talking about "What is the school going to do about preventing this next time?".  The school used to have two armed guards, they will now have three.  I'd like it to be many more than that!  But three does beat two.

I still look forward to thanking the officer in person!

If it were me, and getting stabed would get me out of watching "March of the Penguins"...  So long as it was just in the arm or something...  I'd let the kid cut me! 

[m25operator]

BM, so glad it all worked out the way it did, could have been very different, and I for 1 am glad it did not. As you have seen the previous posters agree. Nobody can be everywhere, all the time, Your daughter it would seem , had her wits, and her training, and a damn good family in reserve. Even in this PC world, she did her best to contact her family and succeeded, maybe not the best, but, enough. God bless you man, and family. That was too close.

Training works.

[brosometal]

I would suggest if you are able to, to take you kids out of the government schools.  There is a filter in place there.  The kids may not dig it, but the education is better and teachers are more responsive. 

As far as prevention, there are no easy answers.  Not to be flippant, but this is the price of a free society.  On of the most "secure" places in the country is prison, and we all know how safe prisons are...  As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, income does not preclude the occasional nut. 

I'm glad to hear your younin's are level headed and safe, and hang in there.  Anything is better than Michigan at present.

[fightingquaker13]

I give a partial and conditional second to Brosmetal here. Government schools (otherwise known as public schools and the back bone of this republic since colonial days) are ok in the most part. The downside is they do tend, out f necessity, to teach to the lowest common denominator. This was reinforced by W and Kennedy's No Child Left Behind Act that actually mandated this and shifted resources to remedial ed rather than AP classes. If you do go private, choose based on the excellence of the education, not ideology. Giving your kids good values is your job, not the teachers. Too many parenys look to put their kids in schools of whatever idelogical stripe, that are  designed to produce an "amen chorus" rather than critical thnkers. What you want is a place that demands academic excellence, hard work, questions every belief, and will provide the individual attention your child needs to think for themselves. Absent this, you're wasting money.
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[jaybet]

I'm glad your daughter is ok...it's a LOT different when something happens RIGHT HERE!
Sadly, crazy kids are a part of crazy humanity, and sometimes there's nothing to be done. This is a good lesson for the whining liberals that we can't all just sit down over a muffin and some herbal tea and get along. There are times when people need to defend themselves and when reason is not of any use.

[Badgersmilk]

I don't usually "air out" family matters in public this way, and even held off on mentioning it at all, but this really is a case I'd like as many people to know about as possible.  The press talks and talks about any instance where a gun is used against the masses, trying to paint a picture of how "dark and evil" guns and any person associated with them surely is.  Of the parents Ive talked to, and others I've heard talk, nobody has anything left wing to say about a gun being used when it involved the safety of their kids!

Had the officer been restricted to carrying no weapon (like in many schools), and the kid shot him down...  This would have been on every news channel in the country.

[Johnny Bravo]

Thanks for a great post BM. Your not airing laundry. You are informing others. You're among friends here.