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Saving Our School Children from Tennessee Politicians<\/a><\/p>\n

Tennessee politicians left our students defenseless, and we have to save them. A celebrity-seeking mass murderer killed students in a Nashville private school. That should be a wakeup call that the Republican controlled legislature and Governor have failed us again. We need angry parents to change the status quo and save our kids. As grim as this sounds, there is plenty of good news. We also know how to reduce and to prevent mass murder in our schools. Tennessee parents have been ignored for too long.<\/p>\n

The gun-control politicians say we should disarm honest citizens to protect our children. Other politicians say they will put armed deputies in the schools to save our kids. Both have been lying to us for years. Gun-control fails and the legislature never funds enough school resource officers to protect our kids. I understand the problem because mass-murders are rare and even a small school needs several defenders. The solution is simple, but it is not politically easy.<\/p>\n

I want our children protected at school the same way our kids are protected by their parents at home. I want our children protected the way our politicians are protected at the capital, and I want it now. Unlike some proposals that sound good in theory, we know this solution stops mass-murderers. Don\u2019t listen to what politicians and celebrities say they want. Instead, look at what they do.<\/p>\n

Politicians are protected by men with guns. Celebrities are protected by men with guns. The spouses and children of politicians and the spouses and children of celebrities are protected by men with guns. When a celebrity-seeking mass-murderer comes to school, even the advocates of gun-control shout that we should call men with guns. The only debate is about when the armed defenders should arrive. I want our kids defended now.<\/p>\n

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The experts who study violence on campus told us what to do to protect our students. It was a decade ago when they said we don\u2019t have time to wait. The defenders have to be on campus before the first shot is fired or the murderer will\u00a0kill more than 14 children<\/a>\u00a0while we wait for the police. The experts said that defenders have to be close enough to the students so they arrive in seconds, not minutes. That is simply a matter of elementary school mathmatics. The murderers will kill until we stop them, but the experts didn\u2019t know that we can do something so the murderers won\u2019t kill at all.<\/p>\n

More parents\u00a0want their children protected<\/a>\u00a0at school than want them unprotected. You might think that volunteer defenders at school are rare, but you would be wonderfully wrong. It surprised me too, but we found a higher fraction of\u00a0teachers who were willing to be armed first responders<\/a>\u00a0than the fraction of people\u00a0who carry concealed in public.<\/a>\u00a0(18 percent of teachers vs. 8.0 percent of the general public)<\/p>\n

Listen to what that says! It seems that\u00a0more school staff were willing to protect<\/a>\u00a0their kids at school than were willing to protect themselves in public. Unfortunately, Tennessee politicians got in the way of saving our kids. The Tennessee Legislature\u00a0outlawed almost all school staff from going armed.<\/a>\u00a0We can\u2019t stop the murders in Nashville a few months ago, but we can stop the murderers from attacking our kids tomorrow if we change those laws.<\/p>\n

Armed defenders are old news. We\u2019ve had armed volunteer first responders in schools across the country for a decade. About 34 states allow volunteer armed school staff to be first responders at their schools. One program\u00a0trains these responders<\/a>\u00a0in armed defense, first aid, and in emergency response. They trained about three-thousand first responders in over 200 school districts. We\u2019ve had about two-million school-hours of armed defenders on campus. We have seen what stops celebrity-seeking mass-murderers so we don\u2019t need to speculate.<\/p>\n