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Making Our School Zones Safe For Our Children

Earl Kirby, February 19, 2008

            Since the recent random shootings on University campuses  I have noticed a rash of letters to the editor and ed-op pieces in papers around the country calling for new laws and regulations to control guns so as to protect our children.  Most of the writers lay the blame for these out breaks of violence on the easy availabity of firearms and the love affair that the wacko membership of the NRA have too their guns.  Some don’t just call for more regulation but are actually calling for the elimination of guns from our society.  Most claim that it is impossible to control the situation because of the over abundance of guns available in the United States.

            I would like to suggest the opposite is true.  In fact there are not enough guns available in our society and is that fact that prevents our control of the situation.  If there had been even two or three guns in any one of the classrooms in the hands of the students or faculty the real nuts, the killers, would have been stopped the moment they fired the first round.  Further, if the individuals who are inclined to this type of madness knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the odds where stacked so heavily against them they would be inclined to not start an incident in the first place.

 The state believes that it has a right as while as an obligation to force parents to send there children to schools for an education.  With that right and obligation comes the responsibility to provide proper protection for those children.  Every teacher and administrator in the school system from the elementary to and through college is an employee of the state.  Those employees should be required to provide the children with a safe environment seeing as they are forced to attend the schools.  The state should require every teacher and administrator to attend a firearms class, pass basic profiency tests on the use of a firearm and be required to maintain a firearm under their control at all times while on the campus so as to be able to protect our children.

            For those teachers or administrators who claim that they can’t handle such a requirement I suggest they find other employment.  No one has the right to force someone to do what they don’t want to do but every employer, including the state,  has the right to lay down conditions of employment.  Every employer also has the right to change the conditions of employment from time to time.  Those who do not wish to comply can leave and find employment elsewhere.

            Nothing should ever stand in the way of insuring the safety of our children!