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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Circle The Wagons And Pass The Amunition! The School marms A Comin'!!!

Wow....
Really!?!
Have you heard the latest brilliant idea some are proposing?  In the wake of the Connecticut tragedy some are suggesting that in order to prevent further school violence...that we arm school staff and/or teachers!
Yes.
Seriously!
And what's even more scary is those making the suggestion are not some gun toting, plaid wearing, pick up driving, tobacco chewing Redneck whack jobs but these are Republican Senators.
OK.
Yea your right, not much difference.  But still!
Oh I could go into a litany of reasons why this is a BAD idea. But simply put  haven't we learned that escalating an already bad situation isn't the answer.  Why not put some of the tax payers money into something useful, like securing our schools a little better.  I've been to enough schools to know just how easy it is to walk in and be right in the middle of things.  Hallways, cafeteria's, front offices the security is a joke!  Look with a little cash and a minute amount of smarts I could solve the problem.  Lock all doors and replace glass ones with steel. Have two entries in and out except for fire doors that open only from the inside with an alarm the sounds when opened. Have the main entrance two doors with a hallway in between.  On the exterior door (which is always locked and can only be opened from the outside by a buzzer.  With a security camera on the outside anyone wanting to come in must be ID first.  Also, why not require any parent with an enrolled child have a corresponding ID for that school. Yes, front office personal would have to be hired and put in place, remaining diligent but isn't this a worthwhile expense to safeguard the lives of our children?  Look, until our Governments get their proverbial heads out of their asses about mental health care we have to protect our own!
ANYWAY!
Today was end of the year tax preparation day at the Ol' Dungeon!  I'm not the neatest and most organized person when it comes to cataloging receipts and such.  Put it this way....we have a REAL big shoe box that everything gets tossed into and I gather it up at the end of the year.  So that was my day.
BUT!  Managed to get in some soon to be goodies today!  WAHOOO!  Really needed an infusion of new blood so keep an eye peeled for them!
So that's it for this evening!  Mama  found a copy of Teen Wolf on netflix so I'm vegging out with the classics tonight!
See ya tomorrow!

1 comment:

  1. Oh, don't even get me started. I've been screaming into the void my whole adult life about the criminal negligence of our "education" system; gun control isn't the conversation we should be having (and the fact that arming teachers is being floated as a reasonable response by elected officials just... well, there are no words); the conversation we SHOULD be having is how WE can get our collective heads out of our asses and start doing a better job at being minimally decent human beings.

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