Amid increasing calls to arm educators in the wake of the Newtown shootings, school leaders who met earlier this week in Southington agreed that guns have no place in Connecticut's schools.
The gathering of the Connecticut School Security Symposium on Monday in Southington drew more than 800 educators. The event was closed to the public, but a group of schools officials talked to reporters on Tuesday during a press conference in West Hartford, according to the website CT News Junkie.
In Danbury, the Board of Education decided two things. It will implement any security measures it can ASAP, and look for long-term solutions between now and April, its deadline for the study. Oxford is in the midst of doing the same thing (more to come soon on Oxford's school safety response).
Oxford Superintendent of Schools Tim Connellan said teachers should act as educators, not armed patrol personnel.
Joseph Cirasuolo, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, told the website that officials discussed a wide range of issues related to school security during the symposium, including how schools should safegaurd against tragedies like the Newtown shootings. Some of the issues covered, Cirasuolo said, included installing bulletproof glass in schools and improving buzzer entry systems.
He said there was no single or easy solution to the matter of school security, though the education officials dismissed the idea of arming teachers or other school officials, the website reports.
“One of the things that was recommended against very strongly was arming teachers and principals, because when it comes down to it you can make sure somebody knows how to use a firearm — shoot it — but you need to make sure the person that has the firearm knows how to use it in a school setting,” Cirasuolo told CT News Junkie.
For homework tonight, Google "Koreatown LA Riots" " I don't believe even the most "leftie" of liberals is advocating for the confiscation of legally owned firearms." Then you haven't been paying attention.
1 hour ago john, your last post goes beyond belief and shows just how paranoid YOU really are. You are more afraid of a firearm enthusiast than a mentally deranged individual when all of the mass murders, Newtown included, were perpetrated by mental deranged people hopped up on prescription medication. The NRA is an organization founded to protect MY right to own a firearm and to protect myself and my family from people like YOU. I am proud to say I am a life member and will continue to fight for my constitutional right to protect myself and family with a firearm if the need arises. "Two dogs", are you for real? You need some serious mental help.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/TOB/S/2013SB-00124-R00-SB.htm
http://thepatriotperspective.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/magazine-bans-and-why-standard-capacity-magazines-are-important/ So those poor Koreans would have been overwhelmed with only 10 round magazines instead of 30+ round clips ?
http://www.ammoland.com/2012/05/1992-l-a-riots-or-how-californians-learned-then-forgot-to-embrace-the-gun/#axzz2HiqAsFXO or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots or http://www.humanevents.com/2012/12/23/when-assault-weapons-saved-koreatown/ or http://gunowners.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/saved-by-a-semi-automatic-assault-rifle-the-story-of-koreatown-during-the-la-riots/
As I have said several times in the forum, the ultimate best solution will a balanced approach of tightened gun laws, additional security measures with the option of armed staff, (either uniformed or teachers) at schools & other public places, addtional mental health resources. I do believe though if you have a family member in the house who is using state or federal mental health agencies, the agency should have a right to ask if there are firearms in the house & be able to verify how they're secured and adjust or coordinate treatment with other agencies that deal with firearm registration. I believe too that there needs to be a way to ensure that gun owners have their firearms secured safely. I do realize that many of them do already and I applaud their acceptance of responsibility. However, there are enough stories in the news of kids bringing their Dad's, brother's, uncle's, etc. gun to school, not to kill but to show off, that gun security is a valid concern.
Centrists from both the pro & anti gun groups need to come together to find common ground. Folks howled at Wayne LaPierre's comments stating good guys with guys will stop bad guys with guns but they forget that coward Adam Lanza only took his own life when he realized armed resistance was about to confront him and he could no longer walk the halls leisurely shooting little 6-7 year olds. My blood boils even now typing those words. With what I know now I blame the entire incident on Nancy Lanza for not have her firearms properly secured. This was a woman who had received 290K in court ordered alimony just in 2012. She of all people could afford a gun safe.
I think "sport" shooting will be no less sporting if AR-15's only have a 10 round clip as opposed to a 30 round one. Let's be honest, if such a ban were passed you would likely see an unprecedented run on high capacity magazines anyways. That said, it should still be done.
Again this is just one of several proposals but still one more than what you've offered.....
I believe limiting magazine capacity has value, you do not. Your argument that it only takes a couple seconds to swap magazine works equally against & for you. After Sandy Hook rest assured, something will be done. If I were you I'd be bringing ideas to the table. Simply thumping your fist on your chest proclaiming 2nd amendment rights will not make anyone safer nor prevent current gun laws from being strengthened. Enjoy your "feel good" politics.
I never claimed to offer a solution but by the same token I'm not offering politics disguised as "a solution". Do you want a solution? How about enforcing the 20,000 some odd gun laws that are already on the books and mental illness? I have asked repeatedly what you "believe limiting magazine capacity" will do to solve anything and you never have answered the question because there is no answer. People like you who continually put your head in the sand of the real problem and attack law abiding citizens is a problem unto itself. How about you address that one.
@Joe Blow, please name some of the 20,000 guns & mental health laws on the books that are not being enforced that would directly affect the issues we are all facing.