Posted by jclarkbaker on 12/22/2012 3:22:00 PM (view original):
And you of course miss the point. Armed guards are not the fool proof solution. But the shooters at Columbine knew they had but one person to deal with: the guard, who was easily identifiable. They did not have to worry about someone carrying concealed. Still, his presence saved lives. Why? BECAUSE HE HAD A ******* GUN.
Sounds like Chris Christie misses the point also. He thinks its bullshit.
Is there proof that these persons(actually there were two armed officers) saved lives?
Joe Manchin thinks anything over three rounds in a clip is bullshit.
SIEGEL: Well, let me put you some of the things that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said. For example, he raises the question of why should anybody be selling armor-piercing bullets to anyone in this country? The only people they'd be used against, they're not - you know, as he says, the deer don't wear armor. They're for shooting cops. They're for shooting people who wear bulletproof vests.
MANCHIN: It makes all the common sense in the world. That question is as common, and it should be asked, and it should be talked about and everyone should come to agreement on that. Those are the things. But if you can't get people in the room, in a commonsense way, talking about things that logically make sense, you know, I can't give you an answer. I don't know. I'd like to find out.
SIEGEL: But you've said that, for example, as a hunter, you've never used a clip that fired off more than three...
MANCHIN: Correct.
SIEGEL: ...three rounds, I guess.
MANCHIN: Correct. I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.
SIEGEL: Can you go so far as to say there should be a real limit, as there used to be, on how big a magazine you can use?
MANCHIN: What I will say is I want to sit down with the people that want 10 or more rounds. I want to hear. I don't know. I want to hear their reasoning, and I think that's a conversation that we need to have, Robert, and I keep saying that.
There's a change in he wind.......