Guns Don’t Kill People, They Kill Societies

I definately do not find that acceptable. What if that student has a medical condition? What if that student has a mental health condition? Tasers can kill a child depending upon their health, ability to withstand the electrical charge, and of course the proper use of that taser. We are teaching our children that reacting with violence is a good thing. I do not believe that armed guards should be patrolling our schools nor that students should be treated like they are prisoners. Between this policy, the lack of proper special education, the schools refusal to comply with students medical needs, and their refusal to send sick kids home instead of exposing everyone to whatever illness and sending kids home because they have Cystic Fibrosis and cough in class, this is why I homeschool my children. Our school system has too many flaws that just does not serve the students as needed and treats them poorly. I also do not believe that violence serves a purpose. Gun ownership should have more regulation.

I don’t follow you argument about guns being the problem. Guns have been in our society from the beginning. But the killing of kids by guns and school shootings are new. Those things are happening not because of guns but do to a deterioration of our society. If anything gun crime should be going down, as guns have actually become less accessible, however, that is not the case. It is too simplistic to just blame guns. There should be control of guns, but more than that we need some real introspection into ourselves and our society to decifer what has occured. I have my theories (too long to go into) about why this is happening and it is multifaceted.

However, blaming guns is the simplistic easy way out. The girl who was tasered did not have a gun. But the teacher was not allowed to touch her for fear of being fired and a lawsuit, teachers can’t even defend themselves. Kids like this girl likely have issues that need professional help, our teachers are not prepared or paid to deal with kids who threaten them with violance. If the Sherrif had not acted, maybe a teacher or another student could have been hurt.

We wonder why our children are falling farther and farther behind other nations. It’s not guns. It is something much deeper.

The TRUTH is that school children are treated differently in our great nation based on where they live. A middle school student in Texas died by having his chest crushed when his teacher sat on him to restrain him, a Texas high school student suffered deep bruising and welts to his lower back, buttocks and back of his legs when he received 21 “licks” with a wooden canoe paddle, which broke during the beating and had to be taped to continue the beating, a 9 year old Georgia 3rd grader suffered deep bruising injuries when he was paddled with a wooden paddle 3 TIMES IN ONE DAY (Decatur Co., GA affirmed Corporal Punishment Policy 9/17/09 for school children) and a Publicly Funded Charter School in Memphis, Tennessee physically punishes middle/high school boys and GIRLS weekly during a ceremony called “Chapel” by hitting them with wooden paddles and/or whipping their hands with leather straps IN FRONT OF ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS AS A DETERRENT to publicly induce shame, humiliation and fear! The school employees in the above actions have LEGAL IMMUNITY and are STILL paid by our tax-dollars to be ENTRUSTED with the care and education of our children!
Research on toddlers and other studies following children into adolescence found physical punishment was bad for children and made them more likely to show anti-social behaviour. Dr Jennifer Lansford, associate research professor with the Social Science Research Institute and Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, who led the study, said children who were exposed to physical discipline most frequently were two to three times more likely to show anti-social behaviour as an adolescent, including things like getting into fights, being disobedient at home or at school, general delinquency and being in trouble with teachers. “It seems highly likely that children exposed to violence would themselves use violence in reaction to situations. Violence begets violence is a lesson from history not just child psychology.” “Children are the most vulnerable members of our society. Adults have constitutional and legal protection from physical violence. Why are children still waiting?”
Physical punishment of schoolchildren is NOT education’s “Best Practice” as it is ILLEGAL in 30 states. Weapons such as Wooden paddles and GUNS don’t belong in schools. Guns are for KILLING and in Texas, one school district has undisclosed employees carrying loaded, concealed guns with the Governor’s support and approval!
U.S. Congress is currently holding hearings on Abusive and DEADLY practices in SCHOOLS and MUST ABOLISH Physical/Corporal Punishment Nationwide of ALL Children in ALL Schools, The Cost is $0. Doesn’t it just make sense for all of us to keep our hands off of other people’s children?
Pushing for anything less than an outright ban on all forms of classroom abuse reveals a gap in the administration’s professed commitment to making schools better, safer, and stronger.