Disclaimer: As neither a gun owner nor a member
of the NRA, I see the suggestion of armed guards in our public places as one
more step toward the “security state” seen by those who recoil at military
personnel armed with assault-rifles at foreign airports. And I don’t agree with
LaPierre’s concept: "the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun
is a good guy with a gun." While this is a somewhat "tongue-in-cheek" commentary, I'd like to think the suggestion might have merit in giving the NRA a chance to "put it's money where its mouth is."
Friday, January 11, 2013
Volunteer Lemonade from NRA's Lemons
Perhaps the NRA’s Wayne
LaPierre criticism of the administration's pushing of failed solutions could make
lemonade from its lemons by taking his “crazy” suggestion a step further by
asking NRA members to come forward and offer their volunteer service to their school
districts. We have volunteers in our schools for other purposes; why not licensed
and gun-use-trained volunteers for security? Seems the presence of sane and law-abiding
NRA members guarding our schools would serve to make everybody happy: “tea-party”
types would be glad no state or federal monies would be used, thereby keeping “big
government” out of local issues; the defenders of 2nd Amendment rights would be
happy that the ”right to bear arms” is not being trampled; the anti-gun folks
would be content there’d be no added proliferation of guns, since volunteers
would have their own; and what red-blooded, gun-totting American would not jump
at the chance to “strut their stuff” in a public place? Promoters of volunteerism
have reason to rejoice in the renewal of a GHW Bush era “million points of
light” solution at the grass-roots level.
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