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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
dksuddeth, given that this was a one-room schoolhouse dedicated to the teaching of the Amish, who are recognized conscientious objectors, I think that you need to rethink your post. Saying that an Amish school should have a gun is like saying that babtists should wipe their asses with the Bible. Neither one is going to happen and both are disrespectful. Maybe you don't know much about the Old Order Amish, but you'll never see one in a fight. That would get them immediately excommunicated.
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first, I wasn't referring to JUST the amish school shooting, this includes PA, WI, and CO as well as any others. I don't know what laws are on the books for Canada when it considers school zones, but they're draconian gun laws up there contributed to a defenseless student body as well. One should consider just how high the body count WOULD have been had there not been some officers in the immediate area on another call.
If the Amish refuse to see that there are some people out there with ill intentions that don't care about following laws against gun free school zones, rape, and murder then they are also contributing factors to the vulnerability of their children.
If we wish to see continuing stories of tragic school massacres, then by all means, keep the gun free school zone law, but if we'd like to be able to provide protection for the students while they are in a school, we need to be able to allow reasonable adults to carry in schools.