NRA wrong about armed
guards in schools
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Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of
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co-author of 13 books, including his latest, "The Tea Party
Manifesto," and his classic, "Taking
America Back," now in its third edition and 14th printing. Farah is
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NRA
leader Wayne LaPierre says that the key to prevention of future school
massacres like the one in Newtown, Conn., is for the government to post armed
guards in every school in America.
Let me disagree with my good friend and fellow Second Amendment supporter.
Let me disagree with my good friend and fellow Second Amendment supporter.
In
fact, I believe that is exactly the wrong prescription.
America doesn’t need more police.
America doesn’t need a “civilian national security force,” as Barack Obama has suggested.
And America certainly doesn’t need more firearms in the hands of the government – local, state or federal.
What America needs to avert future Sandy Hook Elementary School disasters is the following:
America doesn’t need more police.
America doesn’t need a “civilian national security force,” as Barack Obama has suggested.
And America certainly doesn’t need more firearms in the hands of the government – local, state or federal.
What America needs to avert future Sandy Hook Elementary School disasters is the following:
- Prayer back in schools.
- The Ten Commandments back in schools.
- The Bible back in schools.
- Armed and trained teachers and
administrators in schools – not armed police and security guards.
- More armed and trained private citizens
throughout the country.
- More parents making the choice to
educate their children at home or in private, preferably religious,
non-government institutions as opposed to statist, secular humanist
indoctrination centers.
- Most of all what America needs is a
genuine return to God in which, at the very least, those who profess
belief in Him follow the prescription of 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people,
which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek
my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
We
don’t want America to become a police state.
And, frankly, I’m a little surprised and disappointed that the NRA is suggesting something that sounds like a move in that direction.
Yes, we’ve got to get away from this idiotic notion of making schools or any other areas of our society “gun-free zones.” That is nothing but an invitation to one maniac or evildoer to turn it into the killing fields.
There should not be a single school, church, store or business in America that is labeled a “gun-free zone.”
Sandy Hook was one of those places.
And look at the result.
How many times do we have to see it to get the message?
Police are necessary because we live in a fallen world. There are bad guys out there who want to hurt innocent people. But police cannot be everywhere – not would we remain a free society if they were.
That’s why the founders, in their wisdom, encouraged, not allowed, an armed citizenry.
That’s why I call the Second Amendment the constitutional provision that safeguards all the other constitutional rights as well as the Constitution’s strict limitations on government power.
Everyone reading this commentary knows what’s coming in the days and weeks ahead: Barack Obama and the U.S. Senate are going to make a strong bid to disarm law-abiding Americans in the name of safety and security.
And that’s what Wayne LaPierre is concerned about – as I am.
But Obama just might come back and grant LaPierre his wish, if he’s not careful.
Obama loves guns – in the hands of the government over which he presides.
The government already has too many guns, and the citizens government is supposed to serve have too few.
What we need here is more common-sense self-government, not more top-down solutions from Washington – where, by the way, crime runs rampant because the district still prohibits private firearms in spite of a Supreme Court ruling against its authoritarian government monopoly on force.
Massacres like Sandy Hook – and lesser-known violent crimes taking place every day in America – can be minimized in two ways:
And, frankly, I’m a little surprised and disappointed that the NRA is suggesting something that sounds like a move in that direction.
Yes, we’ve got to get away from this idiotic notion of making schools or any other areas of our society “gun-free zones.” That is nothing but an invitation to one maniac or evildoer to turn it into the killing fields.
There should not be a single school, church, store or business in America that is labeled a “gun-free zone.”
Sandy Hook was one of those places.
And look at the result.
How many times do we have to see it to get the message?
Police are necessary because we live in a fallen world. There are bad guys out there who want to hurt innocent people. But police cannot be everywhere – not would we remain a free society if they were.
That’s why the founders, in their wisdom, encouraged, not allowed, an armed citizenry.
That’s why I call the Second Amendment the constitutional provision that safeguards all the other constitutional rights as well as the Constitution’s strict limitations on government power.
Everyone reading this commentary knows what’s coming in the days and weeks ahead: Barack Obama and the U.S. Senate are going to make a strong bid to disarm law-abiding Americans in the name of safety and security.
And that’s what Wayne LaPierre is concerned about – as I am.
But Obama just might come back and grant LaPierre his wish, if he’s not careful.
Obama loves guns – in the hands of the government over which he presides.
The government already has too many guns, and the citizens government is supposed to serve have too few.
What we need here is more common-sense self-government, not more top-down solutions from Washington – where, by the way, crime runs rampant because the district still prohibits private firearms in spite of a Supreme Court ruling against its authoritarian government monopoly on force.
Massacres like Sandy Hook – and lesser-known violent crimes taking place every day in America – can be minimized in two ways:
- Repentance, revival and a return to God
and His laws. That’s the basis of the form of self-government our
forefathers endowed us.
- A well-armed and vigilant citizenry
that will not only be ready, willing and able to respond to crimes of
violence, but also to ensure our government’s trend toward tyranny does
not continue.
3 comments:
With all of the information on the internet it's hard to filter through all of the theories. Was it a false flag operation? Father of victim is an actor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMINqFGNr-w
Was it state mandated psychiatric drugs? https://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/i-am-adam-lanzas-doctor-by-rima-e-laibow-md-she-does-not-use-drugs-must-watch/
Maybe it was both. Unfortunately prayer will not stop one's intent to harm others though. Trained, armed individuals will such as the case in the Oregon mall shooting. You must dig beyond the MSM to find the truth as usual.
Roberta here. PART 1. HELLO JOSEPH AND PATRIOTS. When I was a little girl my Dad took me target practicing and trained me how to use and respect guns. As a teen he occasionally took me on his hunting trips. It was wonderful, educational, and very good for my capabilities and self esteem. I own a gun now for self defense, not for hunting. I never thought we'd need them for what is happening in our country today, but Freedom is not Free and we must be willing to preserve it for our children and their children. Sense is not so common anymore, and I commend you for having it. I, too, DISAGREE with NRA leader Wayne LaPierre who says that the key to prevention of future school massacres is government armed guards in every school in America. They would be the first to be ambushed and "picked off" at the schools, then it's a wide open arena again. When I was in school, every grade, I liked most and totally trusted all my teachers, and I BELIEVE WHAT YOU AND JOSEPH FARAH BOTH STATED. THE TRUE AND SAFEST SOLUTION TO THIS NEW DILEMMA LIES IN ALL OF YOUR POINTS, ESPECIALLY THE 4TH AND 5TH ONES. 1) Armed and trained teachers and administrators in schools who have their own guns discreetly locked away safely in or near their desk, and 2) More armed and trained private citizens throughout the country.
If I were a student (of ANY AGE) I would be HAPPY if I knew my school teachers and administrators had their own guns safely tucked away to protect us with.
AND HERE IS A NOTE FOR YOU FOLKS WHO FOLLOW YOUR IDIOT DEMOCRAT LEADERS REASONING:
PEOPLE, PLEASE THINK ABOUT THIS: We in this country of America are FREE ONLY BECAUSE MANY OF US HAVE OUR OWN GUNS. WITHOUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT, YOU HAVE NO FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. Every single time, anyplace, anytime, throughout the centuries, especially the 20th century, EVERY SINGLE TIME a government takes away the GUNS of the citizens, THERE IS NO MORE FREE SPEECH, LAWS mean NOTHING, AND THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED BY THE MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS BY THE RULERS and DICTATORS.
Roberta here, PART 2. In this country we are not supposed to have Rulers, we are supposed to have Public Servants. However, you now have RULERS AND CZARS. If YOU listen to these RULERS (who tear down and ignore the Constitution and Congress) as if our warnings come from OMG Conspiracy Theorists, and you go along with your idiot RULERS who want to take our guns away, then YOU DESERVE to be enslaved and slaughtered like Hitler and many other dictators of the 1900s did unjustly to their people. Remember, HITLER (JUST LIKE OBAMA) WAS VOTED INTO OFFICE IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. Obama has already shown his colors by some of the nearly one thousand Executive Orders he signed into law that give himself full, total, and complete power of every thing and every person in this country when he declares a National Emergency of any kind, and institutes MARTIAL LAW. Go to YouTube and type in UN TROOPS ON AMERICAN SOIL. Read the National Defense Authority Act and the National Resources Preparedness Act. PRESIDENT OBAMA has bypassed Congress, making them obsolete, he ignores and bypasses the Constitution and convinces fools like YOU that it is, quote, outdated. But little do you seem to know that as long as the Constitution and our Bill Of Rights are in FORCE, YOU HAVE YOUR FREEDOM. ONCE IT IS GONE, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS, NONE, ZIP, ZILCH, NADA, NO RIGHTS WHATSOEVER, AND IF YOUR GUNS HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY YOU CAN'T DEFEND YOURSELF FROM ANYTHING THE CURRENT RULERS WANT TO DO TO YOU. Do yourself and your family a favor and do some RESEARCH on COMMUNISM, DICTATORS, UNITED NATIONS, NEW WORLD ORDER, and even Global Depopulation Agenda. I want my gun to defend myself from a Government gone Wild, and violent intruders breaking into my home. AND,
IF I WERE A STUDENT, OF ANY AGE, I WOULD WANT TO KNOW THAT MY TEACHERS WERE TRAINED AND HAD THEIR OWN GUNS LOCKED IN A SAFE PLACE IN OR NEAR THEIR DESK.
Remember, WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED, THEN ONLY THE GOVERNMENT, AND OUTLAWS, HAVE GUNS. DO YOU TOTALLY TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT AND ITS CURRENT RULERS???
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