tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post3743367244048389321..comments2024-02-14T11:00:03.180-05:00Comments on Tom McLaughlin: Time To Arm TeachersTom McLaughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-17725937859992660522013-12-23T21:35:14.249-05:002013-12-23T21:35:14.249-05:00Your picture with the caption "Christian Pers...Your picture with the caption "Christian Persecution" in red is not a picture of Christians being hanged. It is a picture of Iranian drug dealers being hanged. The source for the photo is Agence France Presse, and Getty has the distribution rights. You can see it here on Getty's site:<br /><br />http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/four-iranian-criminals-are-hanged-in-public-in-the-southern-news-photo/78509825?esource=linkconn&aid=39902&asid=94532&cid=4157&lid=12413<br /><br />It is dated September 5, 2007, and here is the Reuters article of the event connected to it:<br /><br />http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=iran-hangs-21-criminals-drug-smugglers-2007-09-06<br /><br />There are Christians who are persecuted in some parts of the world. This is not a picture of them. Whoever placed this caption with this photo is lying to you. I encourage you to correct your post and refrain from perpetuating this lie.Beauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16231021323767556713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-12799782886223371092013-10-09T15:29:35.251-04:002013-10-09T15:29:35.251-04:00Why limit guns in schools to the teachers? Just i...Why limit guns in schools to the teachers? Just imagine if 20 kindergarteners whipped out their pistols and started blasting away at the intruder!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-28951193281260726972013-10-05T10:05:39.167-04:002013-10-05T10:05:39.167-04:00Not hoaxes? Huh. Really?
Read the latest from Sey...Not hoaxes? Huh. Really?<br /><br />Read the latest from Seymour Hersh regarding the mainstream press, Obama and the bin laden lie.<br /><br />Do you believe everything they tell you? Like a rugnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-55356237730646728802013-10-03T08:24:59.547-04:002013-10-03T08:24:59.547-04:00Hoaxes? We wish.
To Greg:
Thanks for another tho...Hoaxes? We wish.<br /><br />To Greg:<br /><br />Thanks for another thoughtful post.<br /><br />Yes. Look out for cowboy wannabes we know are out there. There aren't many in the teaching profession in my experience, however. They go for military or police jobs usually. Teachers don't wear uniforms.<br /><br />The bigger problem would be to find teachers willing to undergo the training. The profession is so leftist - and anti-gun almost by definition - that volunteers may not come forward even if school administration gave the go-ahead. That's unlikely too, here in the liberal northeast anyway. Maybe in Missouri or Oklahoma or Texas, but not in New England.<br /><br />The left is unwavering in their belief that guns are the problem, not evil and/or mental illness.<br /><br />And yes, the mentally ill are out there in large numbers. They're in county jails too. And there are more of them than in the WWII generation as prolific illegal drug use among baby boomers and subsequent generations triggers the weak links in the genetic chains of those predisposed to schizophrenia and other maladies.<br /><br />The 60s and 70s witnessed a redefinition of juvenile delinquents to "emotionally disturbed." My first teaching job was in that mis-defined population. JDs were mixed with the genuinely mentally ill as reform schools were closed down at the same time the mentally ill were de-institutionalized. The truly crazy now have civil rights to go off prescription meds, go on street drugs, and cause mayhem. They can only be re-institutionalized for very short periods against their wills, usually less than a week or two in most states.<br /><br />They get disability checks and EBT cards enabling them to isolate and incubate their evil fantasies.<br /><br />Now the left is firmly in charge down here in the states. Not likely that these trends will be reversed in the foreseeable future.Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-30623093506884982382013-10-03T02:05:31.196-04:002013-10-03T02:05:31.196-04:00There really shouldn't be any reluctance from ...There really shouldn't be any reluctance from having armed and trained people, not only at schools, but in other public institutions. Of course, possessing a firearm in the interest of defending against an assault also comes with deeper responsibility. It's not only mastering the maintenance and use of a gun that requires thorough training but judgment as well. Any sign that the volunteer has cowboy fantasies ought to immediately disqualify them from 'duty'; not unlike with police. <br />The issue of mental stability for those who possess firearms is a signficant prerequisite I should think. <br />Even in the Army, there have been recruits who manage to pass the initial screening but who can quickly become a threat...usually to themselves. I once had to deal with a young soldier sitting in his tent with the barrel of a loaded rifle thrust in his mouth. Thankfully, after some time, the young man was convinced to give up and so was taken away to a psychiatric facility.<br /><br />There is another side of your story Tom that I believe is the proverbial 'elephant-in-the-room' when it comes to the kind of violence we have witnessed and that is 'mental illness' itself.<br /><br />Over half of the homeless on our streets are persons suffering from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses and more 'at home' often do not receive the treatment that they need. It's practically impossible, in your country and mine, for a psychiatrist to have a person who so obviously is mentally sick admitted to hospital. <br /><br />It's a matter of 'civil rights' don't you know. I remember well the paradigm shift that took place in the seventies with psychiatric patients and institutions. The au courant political winds at the time were that the mentally ill would do much better outside of locked institutions that had come to be regarded as 'dark satanic mills' and so the thinking was to build programs that would house these patients in smaller homes under the supervision of social workers and the like. In a very short time our cities had hundreds of the mentally ill out in the community and the government overseers, as one might have expected, had difficulty keeping up with the 'demand'.<br />The Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in Toronto where I did my training rapidly emptied and the Ministry of Health decided to lease it out. It ended up as the location for the Police Academy movies. I guess that it helped to pay the bills but so many patients who were once supervised and in a safe environment practically disappeared into the community.<br /><br />I believe with Dr. Krauthammer that there will continue to be these crazy assaults no matter what but society has made the odds so much greater by pretending that mental illness will just go away if we don't look at it.<br /><br />Mental illnesses are not like many of those heart-tugging diseases like breast cancer or heart and stroke. No one is signing up at the office to 'run for the cure'.<br /><br />The advancement within psychiatric and neuro-psychiatric medicine since the days when one flew over the cuckoo's nest is incredible. Perhaps the most signifcant is the discovery of the genetic factors related to the illness; and this especially true for schizophrenia, the disease du jour for hallucinatory mass murder.<br /><br />Whilst we're training those teachers and others in schools to take on the extra responsiblity of being first-responders, we should do even more to figure out how to address that 'elephant-in-the-room' that no one wants to talk about. Greg Bentonhttp://piddingworth.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-88407872566415243052013-10-02T17:14:11.448-04:002013-10-02T17:14:11.448-04:00TOM - YOU WITH A GUN NOW THAT IS
SCARY -TOM - YOU WITH A GUN NOW THAT IS<br />SCARY -John Rogannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-42617924550224836622013-10-02T15:37:52.993-04:002013-10-02T15:37:52.993-04:00Thank you Tom! After the Connecticut shooting, I ...Thank you Tom! After the Connecticut shooting, I had said that teachers who are willing to be trained and carry a gun is the BEST answer. I pray this will be done.Beverlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-30987558217932121572013-10-02T10:07:43.621-04:002013-10-02T10:07:43.621-04:00It never cease to amaze me how gullible the Americ...It never cease to amaze me how gullible the American pele have become. What ever happened to critical thinking?<br /><br />How many of these "mass shootings" are hoaxes? Where is the evidence? <br /><br />Seymour Hersh just called out the msm as pathetic shills tooting water for Obama and he is right. He also mentioned the lie that is the bin laden kill story. Everyone else in the world knows this is a lie. Pakistani media just ran a story on it. It's a joke. My military friends all, all, know its a lie. So, if they are willing to lie about that.....? What's to say this navy shipyard bs isn't fake? Newtown? <br /><br />Stop believing everything they tell you.Like a rugnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-42121155528979924092013-10-02T08:17:55.225-04:002013-10-02T08:17:55.225-04:00The Tower
Kent State
I wonder if suspension/expul...The Tower<br />Kent State<br /><br />I wonder if suspension/expulsion/arrest from ALL "gun free zone" related offenses "deemed" dangerous by "appointed"(without appropriate credentials) folk is enough to send a normally well adjusted unemancipated citizen over the edge?<br /><br />Oh, the suffrage! CaptDMOnoreply@blogger.com