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St. Louis: County Police Chief Recommends Arming School Personnel

Posted By Robbie Cooper On 12/17/2012 @ 8:38 pm In Asides | 2 Comments

If I decide to let my boy attend public school (still leaning more towards homeschooling at this point), I’d feel infinitely better knowing that his teachers were trained, licensed, and allowed to carry handguns while teaching.

Via CBS St. Louis ^[1]:

St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch says it is time to talk about arming civilian school personnel following Friday’s massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, comparing it to arming airline pilots after September 11, 2001.

“I see it no differently,” he said. “Pilots have been armed now for many many years, we’ve not had another hijacking and the issue is, for the bad guy, he doesn’t know which airplane he’s getting on, if the pilot is armed or not.”

Fitch said the killing will not be stopped by legislation or laws. “If there’s somebody that’s really hellbent on doing something like this, they’re not going to care what the law is.”

The chief is adamant about his plans but realizes his calls for arming school workers will be met with resistance.

“We touched on this issue with heroin problem with schools. When we first were talking about the heroin problem in St. Louis, many of the school officials ran and they just hid out, they said ‘nope, we don’t have a heroin problem in our schools,’” Fitch said.

12/28/2012 -- Rep-elect Liz Pike (R-WA) Suggests Allowing Teachers to Carry Guns in School ^[2] (21)
12/22/2012 -- The best thing you’ll read (by far) in the gun debate ^[3] (2)
5/30/2013 -- Massachusetts School Children ‘Traumatized’ over Quarter-sized Toy Lego Gun ^[4] (4)
12/26/2010 -- Mayor Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns Civilian Disarmament Pressure Group ^[5] (1)
3/6/2013 -- City of Nelson (GA) wants to make gun ownership mandatory ^[6] (1)

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[1] CBS St. Louis: http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/12/17/county-police-chief-recommends-arming-school-personnel/#.UM-_tXIJuM8.twitter

[2] Rep-elect Liz Pike (R-WA) Suggests Allowing Teachers to Carry Guns in School: http://urbangrounds.com/2012/12/liz-pike/

[3] The best thing you’ll read (by far) in the gun debate: http://urbangrounds.com/2012/12/larry-corriea/

[4] Massachusetts School Children ‘Traumatized’ over Quarter-sized Toy Lego Gun : http://urbangrounds.com/2013/05/lego-toy-gun/

[5] Mayor Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns Civilian Disarmament Pressure Group: http://urbangrounds.com/2010/12/mayor-bloombergs/

[6] City of Nelson (GA) wants to make gun ownership mandatory: http://urbangrounds.com/2013/03/mandatory-gun-ownership/

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