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Grand Island police carry AR15 at school yesterday.
OnTheFly:
The presence of firearms on school grounds does not bother me. It happens every day with the officers who are assigned to each school and (though not visible) with all the CHP holders who are now allowed to drive onto the school property to pick up their kids.
The problem is that this image will re-enforce the anti-gunners stance. Guns in society=kids bringing guns to school=our children having to go to school with the threat of guns pointed at them. To an anti, the image of a weapon not slung over the shoulder or holstered implies a greater threat. Also, the sight of an EBR is disconcerting since everyone knows they are more deadly than those hunting type firearms (Yes...that is sarcasm). The photo was likely taken during a brief time when such weapons were in the school, but it may make people think the school is in permanent lock-down.
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Sotex:
I'm going to disagree with some of the posters here. What would happen if the rifle was slung, and some idiot youth attempted to snag it? A long gun is more defensible in the hands from a grab attempt. The particular sling on that rifle did not lend itself to being slung while the rifle is in hand.
The officer's trigger finger is in proper register on the frame. I am curious about his support hand, however. Is he perhaps covering an empty mag well? I don't see how a 20 or 30 round mag can be inserted with his hand like that. Having said that, it would not bother me if I did see a full sized magazine loaded. The story says that they had specific threat indicators. Most school hallways are pretty damn long for pistol shots with a bunch of no-shoots running amok. I'd be more upset if he was sporting a shotgun.....just because it would not be the appropriate weapon for the task at hand.
A-FIXER:
As my thought on this is that if the.... so called threat was sufficent to bear arm then the school day should have been suspended, until the matter could be investigated properly and deemed false or true, I send my daughter to a christian school no police presence and glad I do having police at the school is BS as far as I believe. Not that I am anti-gun but just thinking Its too much for school I can not believe the young people of today are so different than when I was growing up only that we respected the authortities and adults not to say we were mindless but knew where we stood in hte scheme of things. And if today adult were more inclined to instill character in the kids then we would be better off not to say I didn't do things but 1/2 the time I just didn't get caught and when I did I knew the price I would pay...so I stand firm if the threat is to be real then different venues should be follower and know this just because you see a GUN in school doesn't mean something won't happen it is just an EXTREME idea to simply resolve to a unknown rumor.....
DaveB:
Like the police are going to open fire in a crowded school. Although the threat was not a joke, the show was. There was NO reason to give the kids a false sense of security in the school. If the threat was that great, the school should have been shut down until it was over, you don't go putting my kids in danger just to show off! Just one step closer to a total police state.
David Hineline:
I got not problem with protecting our children at all. There has not been a student hurt in a school fire in probably 40yrs, they have drills, alarms, practice what to do in a fire, but in regards to school shootings which happens all the time we might put one fat resource officer in a school who can run scared ****less outside like in the Columbine shooting. Europe has police in the schoools and police with machineguns walking the airports. We don't value our children enough to protect them to that extent. I bet where ever President Obama's children attend school there are machineguns present.
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