Good Guy With A Gun vs. Bad Guy With A Gun

The following is a cut'n'paste from Bob Owens's article in BearingArms.com

Authorities are dramatically revising the response time of law enforcement officers to the Arapahoe High School shooting on Friday.

Originally, it was claimed by multiple outlets that responding law enforcement agencies took 14 minutes to arrive at the school, and that the shooter was not located until 30 minutes into the event. As we noted based on this information, this proves that schools need armed staffers and/or faculty on campus because it takes far too long for outside law enforcement agencies to respond to stop an active shooter.

It now appears that our original thesis was confirmed because there was an armed officer on campus who was the reason the shooter was stopped after only shooting one student.
They are now stating that the entire incident was over in just 80 seconds because there was an armed sheriff’s deputy on staff who was alerted over the school’s radio system, who cornered the shooter in the library. It now appears that once the shooter heard the deputy identify himself as a law enforcement agent, he committed suicide.

The rampage might have resulted in many more casualties had it not been for the quick response of a deputy sheriff who was working as a school resource officer at the school, Robinson said.
Once he learned of the threat, he ran — accompanied by an unarmed school security officer and two administrators — from the cafeteria to the library, Robinson said. “It’s a fairly long hallway, but the deputy sheriff got there very quickly.”
The deputy was yelling for people to get down and identified himself as a county deputy sheriff, Robinson said. “We know for a fact that the shooter knew that the deputy was in the immediate area and, while the deputy was containing the shooter, the shooter took his own life.”
He praised the deputy’s response as “a critical element to the shooter’s decision” to kill himself, and lauded his response to hearing gunshots. “He went to the thunder,” he said. “He heard the noise of gunshot and, when many would run away from it, he ran toward it to make other people safe.”

Tell us again, gun grabbers, that a good guy with a gun is not the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun. As Alex Rawls of Errortheory noted in his riveting remake of the Moms Demand gun control ad:

What society in human history ever gathered its children together, then issued a public guarantee that they would be left completely undefended?

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Moms Demand Action, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and other members of the citizen control cults can’t and won’t answer that question, of course.

Put armed guards in schools, or allow faculty and staff to become trained and carry their own arms.
There is no other viable immediate solution to deterring armed violence in schools.

Nanny Lunch Lady

Chicago Public School Bans Brown Bag Lunch

Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school. “Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?” the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English. Dozens of hands flew in the air and fellow students shouted along: “We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!” Fernando waved his hand over the crowd and asked a visiting reporter: “Do you see the situation?” At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria.

Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices.

“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,” Carmona said. “It’s about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It’s milk versus a Coke. But with allergies and any medical issue, of course, we would make an exception.”

A Chicago Public Schools spokeswoman said she could not say how many schools prohibit packed lunches and that decision is left to the judgment of the principals. Any school that bans homemade lunches also puts more money in the pockets of the district’s food provider, Chartwells-Thompson. The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.

Does anyone really believe this is for the kids? If so, read the last line above for clarification;

The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.

Follow the money, honey. Now eat your ketchup - that counts as a vegetable.

Hour Fantastik Edumication Cystem

Spotted outside Southern Guilford High Shcool in North Carolina. Bless those teachers! Thems doins a bangs up jerb.

Steve Harvey Dent

This is how Steve Harvey Dent rolls into prom.

Naw, Haters! Don't hate what you can't Em-u-Late!

Schools

Got this one in an email from "Judy." First, I'm impressed we really do have women reading Blasphemes, second, I'm impressed by your sense of humor.

Let me offer my call and response to Judy. Here's Larry's Math homework, with a big fat F on it. His teacher also stapled a McDonald's application to the homework. Ouch. Harsh. However, Mr. Math teacher, if you can't teach Larry to count, he'll never ever be able to work the counter.

Rock On

Lowered Expectations

Walmart has been widely condemned for offering its employees only low-paying, dead end jobs. Remember when candidate Obama criticized Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign for having served on Walmart's board and stated that the firm ought to pay "a living wage?" I do.

Well, in good-old inner-city Detroit, where the unemployment rate is estimated at 50%, the prospect of a Walmart isn't taboo.

So, of course, four inner-city Detroit high schools have teamed up with the giant merchandiser to offer a for-credit class in job-readiness training that also includes entry-level after-school jobs

According to the Detroit Free Press, the principal at one of the schools optimistically suggested that "the program will allow students an opportunity to earn money and to be exposed to people from different cultures -- since all of the stores are in the suburbs."

The announcement of the program outraged Donna Stern, the Midwest coordinator for the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). "They’re going to train students to be subservient workers" she told the Free Press. "This is not why parents send them to school." Oh, REALLY? I guess why bother sending your youngsters to school at all?

While Detroit area schools have cooperated on projects with Walmart in the past, such as a letter-writing contest in which students could win classroom supplies, and at Christmas Walmart donated presents to needy students in a Detroit suburb, this new team-up isn't floating as high.

Apparently it's the preceived racial overtones as training inner-city students for a career as suburban Walmart store clerks that's not flying. No one's saying that Detroit's schools are now desperate enough to accept help wherever they can find it... reminds me of a movie where a corporation took over Detroit to run it... RoboCop!

Meanwhile, to paint the picture a little more for those of you not in the Detroit system, the school district has been running a 'tad' red, and though emergency financial manager Robert Bobb has already closed 29 schools as a cost-cutting measure, it was reported this week that "the 84,000-student Detroit Public Schools could face additional layoffs and about 40 more school closings."

Detroit's teachers have also been chafing at a contract accepted by their union that forces them to make involuntary long-term loans to the school district out of their paychecks. A Detroit Federation of Teachers union meeting on Thursday broke down in chaos after members tried to put the question of recalling the union president on the agenda.

Yeah, so, maybe the teachers are complaining because they'd have better job security as a greeter than trying to elevate their students out of complete and utter urban hell? Are they afraid of a little competition?

Quiz Time!

Can you answer the following questions?

1. What is the supreme law of the land?
2. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
3. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
4. How many Justices are on the Supreme Court?
5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
6. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
7. What are the two major political parties in the United States?
8. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
9. Who was the first President of the United States?
10. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

Hopefully you can answer all of these basic questions correctly. But these questions were presented to 1,134 [public] high school students in Arizona, and not a single one could answer more than seven out of ten correctly.

The biggest shocker (for me) is that more than 73% couldn’t name George Washington as our first president.

However, one might suggest that government funded schools haven't failed. They have succeeded beyond all expectation.