Allow teachers to pack heat, teach kids to deal

I’M A COUNSELOR in a high school — 2,000 people on a 52-acre campus. As an ex-Army officer, AMU OIC/shooter/ instructor, degreed ex-police officer and instructor, CCW instructor who has certified teachers and principals, there is NO way to prevent a determined attacker of a school. We have two armed activeduty police officers on campus, but purely by its size (they) can no way prevent — but may reduce — the carnage.

That said, you can still “harden the target” by allowing teachers, obviously willing and trained, to carry concealed. Look at the Pearl Mississippi High School shooting for example.

What no one of importance or power will examine is why these shootings are occurring. As mentioned previously by some of us, as children we used to take guns to school. Our school shooting teams — both my high school and college — had rifles and pistols, not air-guns as only the current political climate allows. It is not the availability of firearms that causes this mayhem.

It is the liberals, and their permissive child-rearing philosophies, that have caused this culture of people not having the social skills to deal with negativity in their lives. It is the progressives that control the media, thus controlling the dialogue. They are not going to examine the causes they perpetuated which have created these failed children: i.e. families, social promotion, trophies for losers, zero tolerance, multiculturalism, bully prevention, mommy on-call at a moments’ notice, etc.

My department presently has seven counselors, whereas the high school of similar size I grew up in had only one, and I can’t even remember their name. Children today are not taught to deal with their own problems, to adjust to their environment. They are taught that everyone around them has the problem, and that the world has to adapt to them . ...

It is not the prevalence of firearms that causes these shootings, it is simply the lack of respect for others that is the root cause.

RON SMITH Albuquerque