{"id":85802,"date":"2022-09-20T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85802"},"modified":"2022-09-20T13:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:53:46","slug":"85802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85802","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Murphy Blocking Cruz School Security Bill Says It All<\/a><\/p>\n

United States Senate \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>-(AmmoLand.com<\/a>)- The next time some anti-Second Amendment extremist claims that those of us who object to gun control aren\u2019t trying to prevent school shootings, the\u00a0objection<\/a>\u00a0of Senator Chris Murphy to Ted Cruz\u2019s\u00a0School Security Enhancement Act<\/a>\u00a0should be thrown in their face.<\/p>\n

Second Amendment supporters are all too aware of how anti-Second Amendment extremists\u00a0weaponize mass shootings<\/a>\u00a0in general and mass shootings at schools in particular against our rights. Cruz\u2019s legislation would allow current Student Support and Academic Enrichment grant programs to be used to improve the security at schools.<\/p>\n

This sort of thing is \u2013 or should be \u2013 a no-brainer all around. Who doesn\u2019t want safe schools? Chris Murphy, for one, it seems. What could he find so objectionable about Cruz\u2019s legislation, which doesn\u2019t even permit the use of the grants to arm teachers or train them?<\/p>\n

We can quibble whether or not Cruz should have allowed the grants to be used to arm teachers. On the one hand, arming teachers does generate controversy (a voluntary program really shouldn\u2019t, but we\u2019re\u00a0not in an ideal world<\/a>). On the other hand, if Murphy won\u2019t even support measures to improve school security that don\u2019t involve guns\u2026 what do we have to gain by taking armed teachers off the table? That can be discussed later.<\/p>\n

The topic for now, must be Murphy\u2019s decision to object to even bringing such a measure up for debate. This is a no-lose proposition for Second Amendment supporters, especially if we make a lot of noise about it now.<\/strong> If we are seen working on efforts to deter, prevent, or mitigate mass shootings \u2013 including efforts that don\u2019t involve guns \u2013 we have a chance to head off attacks.<\/p>\n

As has been discussed on these pages\u00a0earlier<\/a>, Murphy has pushed legislation that would prohibit any sort of federal funding for law enforcement in schools. In other words, what he is proposing would actually make repeats of Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Uvalde not only much more likely to happen but also to rack up the kind of body counts that force us into a major action in defense of our rights.<\/p>\n

Why would he remove something that could deter or mitigate attacks? That is a question we\u2019d see him asked if the vast majority of media outlets were honest. We don\u2019t have that world today, so much of it could end up needing to be done by Second Amendment supporters at town meetings. Those in Connecticut should press Murphy on this and demand an explanation.<\/p>\n

Remember the time it took for cops to arrive at Sandy Hook? It was ten minutes \u2013 600 seconds. The long periods of inaction by law enforcement at Parkland and Uvalde also should be kept in mind. Murphy\u2019s past track record of\u00a0smearing Second Amendment supporters<\/a>\u00a0means he has forfeited any claim to receiving the benefit of the doubt from Second Amendment supporters on this matter as well.<\/p>\n

One final thing: Working to prevent school shootings with legislative proposals like what Senator Cruz proposed is not being a \u201cFudd.\u201d The fact is, we should be trying to head off these shootings \u2013 it\u2019s in our interest to do so, just look at the\u00a0aftermath of Parkland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Second Amendment supporters have a chance to immunize themselves to some degree from attacks in the wake of the next school shooting. If they can seize this chance, it will help efforts to defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists at the federal, state, and local levels via the ballot box.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murphy Blocking Cruz School Security Bill Says It All United States Senate \u2013\u00a0-(AmmoLand.com)- The next time some anti-Second Amendment extremist claims that those of us who object to gun control aren\u2019t trying to prevent school shootings, the\u00a0objection\u00a0of Senator Chris Murphy to Ted Cruz\u2019s\u00a0School Security Enhancement Act\u00a0should be thrown in their face. Second Amendment supporters are … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85803,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802\/revisions\/85803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}