Parents question school districts purchase of semi-automatic rifles

[Deplorable Me]

Shawnee Mission parents question school district’s purchase of semi-automatic rifles

As a parent I think this is a good idea. Some SUNY college police departments have been equipped with patrol rifles and .308 sniper rifles for several years. (Not in patrol cars full time.)

Does this school district want gun free zones including district police officers? Then again I'd like to know what the parents actually think versus what the newspaper reports.

 

[dwa12479]

“I don’t fully believe one person with a bigger, badder gun is really going to make a huge difference in an active shooter situation in a school,” parent Lisa Veglahn said. “Why did they feel it was necessary over other types of weapons?”

“It’s pretty offensive to me as a taxpayer to feel like you don’t have any voice and you are being excluded from decisions that could harm your child or kill them,” said Melissa Patt, the parent of three students in the Shawnee Mission School District. “What else could we be spending our tax dollars on and getting the same safety results? Or is there evidence that it’s worth it?”

Some pretty ignorant parents there.

 

[Saltwater60]

It was not even $6,000. What else could they do with the money. Not much honestly. Morons. One life saved is well worth it.

 

[stuck in ny]

Fuck em. If we can't have em to prorect ourselves them why should they.

 

[Kwalsh]

It's amazing how some parents think, it's like they think their kids are going to run away and hide at the site of a rifle or the rifle is going to jump out of the safe and start killing kids at random

 

[Dr. Evil]

“It’s pretty offensive to me as a taxpayer to feel like you don’t have any voice and you are being excluded from decisions that could harm your child or kill them,” said Melissa Patt, the parent of three students in the Shawnee Mission School District."

Funny, I felt the same exact way when they passed UnSafe, 11:20 pm on a Monday without any say from me.

 

[MikeGrad]

if they are really smart they will load them with some sort of armor piercing round so they have a chance on an active shooter wearing body armor.

 

[Phauxtoe]

thats what happens when someone grows up without conflict.
I would be willing to guess its been generations, if at all, that somebody in that family has been member of the armed forces.

 

[Blimey]

thats what happens when someone grows up without conflict.
I would be willing to guess its been generations, if at all, that somebody in that family has been member of the armed forces.

Agreed. Many of us have grown up without any exposure to violence and we start to believe it can't ever happen to us. Hens in a hen house often don't know about foxes until they are being eaten.

 

[camper4lyfe]

I'd rather the school spend $6000 on the safety of my kids than $600,000 on some smart phone compatible playground New playground in Greece blends technology with physical activity

 

[Mr. terzmo]

Flintlocks would of ALOT more per rifle.....always a silver linning

 

[VietnamEraVet]

It's amazing how some parents think, it's like they think their kids are going to run away and hide at the site of a rifle or the rifle is going to jump out of the safe and start killing kids at random

I am always amazed at people who think they can just run away from someone wielding a gun, and that they will be safe. (Also funny how NY Penal Law says something similar as to safely retreating from a firearm threat...)

Consider: a top notch athlete running a 4 minute mile is moving at 22 feet per second. And somehow, we are going to outrun a bullet that is traveling at 1,000 to 2,500 feet per second? Maybe I'm just not getting that new Common Core math. But I don't think so!

 

[Glenn B]

Arming officers in a grammar school might be the thing to do even to the extent of having long arms available in the event of an extreme emergency. As for higher education, allow the students or professors to arm themselves and carry on campus.

 

[4excal]

Uh oh.. Looks like the making of another "sandy hook conspiracy"in the making..they're getting their props ready and gonna try n push new gun laws on us Lawyer For Radio Host Who Has Claimed Sandy Hook Was A Hoax Says It's All An Act) ehh @Drinkthekoolaid watcha think??

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Uh oh.. Looks like the making of another "sandy hook conspiracy"in the making..they're getting their props ready and gonna try n push new gun laws on us Lawyer For Radio Host Who Has Claimed Sandy Hook Was A Hoax Says It's All An Act) ehh @Drinkthekoolaid watcha think??

I didn't think it was a conspiracy. I'm honestly not crazy conspiracy guy

 

[zzrguy]

Wow I'm impressed it was a well write none bias article .Wow.

They are a police force not security guards

 

[4excal]

I didn't think it was a conspiracy. I'm honestly not crazy conspiracy guy

Drink the koolaid...drrrrink iiiit..

 

[holdover]

Perhaps they may see the errors of their ways and let them disarm the police.

 

[Marine Cpl]

I am always amazed at people who think they can just run away from someone wielding a gun, and that they will be safe. (Also funny how NY Penal Law says something similar as to safely retreating from a firearm threat...)

Consider: a top notch athlete running a 4 minute mile is moving at 22 feet per second. And somehow, we are going to outrun a bullet that is traveling at 1,000 to 2,500 feet per second? Maybe I'm just not getting that new Common Core math. But I don't think so!

It's very possible if the shooter has a .45 ACP.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

It's very possible if the shooter has a .45 ACP.

@Willjr75 Had to be you, huh? I knew when I posted that, that someone would chime in about the .45ACP! LOL!