As of this writing, Governor Dennis Daugaard hasn’t used his last chance opportunity to exercise his veto power. But among the bills still on his desk this morning is a gun clunker, House Bill 1271, which would exempt private schools from South Dakota’s prohibition on guns in schools.
How about a veto there, Governor Daugaard? Public or private, schools are no place for guns. If we are going to allow private schools to undermine the purpose of civilized education and subject children to the increased danger of constantly present firearms, we should at least subject them to the training requirements of the school gunslinger law.
Today is the last work day on which the Governor may issue vetoes. The Legislature convenes Monday to consider any vetoes. Let’s hope Governor Daugaard gives them HB 1271 to reconsider.
There is a big difference in
Sport hunting with firearms and being
a community guardian with a firearm. Law enforcement is a career, tracking is a career, clergy is a career, medicine is a career, now do we want to combine these careers?
Maybe we need to have in our schools gun packing teachers that are also clergy with medical degrees.
That way these individuals can
teachem, protectem, sewem up, and if they die they can preach their funeral.
One stop shopping IS cheaper.
Cory,
A gun saved lives in a school last week.
Why aren’t you reporting that?
A nine year old Mississippi boy assassinated his 13 year old sister because she wouldn’t give up the game controller.
A four year old Texas boy shot and seriously wounded his 7 month old sister.
Why aren’t you reporting that, Jason?
Mike,
Because I haven’t written a blog article discussing guns in schools.
Hasn’t stopped you from injecting guns and other irrelevant subjects in articles at DFP. Just saying.
It appears Jason is referring to Blaine Gaskill, a school resource officer who performed his duty in uniform in Maryland last week. Such action was already permitted in private and public schools under South Dakota law and did not require the dangerous deregulatory step of HB 1271.
I was aware of Gaskill. I was also aware that good guys with guns don’t let people get shot to begin with. The shooter apparently settled a personal grudge with an ex and may have chose suicide by cop.
Either way, guns in schools and guns in the home do not protect as advertised. I hope this is my final comment on Maryland shooting.
I can’t believe the ridiculous comments on this subject. If anyone truly believes guns are the problem in school shootings, you’re hopeless. The true issues of a destroyed family life, no father figures, mental illness and a list of other issues are to blame, much more so than guns. As a teenager I drove my truck to school with multiple guns in my vehicle as did many of my fellow classmates. The NRA held firearms training classes in our school and no one came shooting up the schools nor did any of the guns in the parking lot magically start shooting people. This was also not that long ago, I graduated in 1993 from a high school of over 1,200 students. I, personally, would rather have those who have a concealed weapons permit and the proper training carrying in ALL schools and not just private schools. There are literally thousands of veterans without jobs who would gladly give their lives protecting our schools WITH guns. This hysteria over school shootings is the same BS spread every time some sissy is bullied and decides to use a gun to get even instead of growing a sack and resolving the problem like a man. They’re ALWAYS mentally disturbed beta males who can’t handle the fact that they’re ordinary and not exceptional. Also, to clarify, CDC has done a study in 2013 on how many times a gun is used to protect someone from intruders, assailants or rapists. Guns are used for self-defense often and effectively. “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year … in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008,” says the report. The three million figure is probably high, “based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys.” But a much lower estimate of 108,000 also seems fishy, “because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.” Furthermore, “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.” Do some true research and educate yourself before spreading more lies and misinformation about a topic you clearly do not understand.
The idea of putting more guns in schools as a jobs program for veterans is entirely the wrong motivation. I’d rather just give those veterans early pensions and avoid the increased risk of gun “accidents” and the oppressive presence of firearms in schools.