Arizona to arm schools with volunteers!
An Arizona sheriff has proposed placing an armed volunteer posse at many Phoenix-area schools, in response to the deadly school shooting in Connecticut…The report emphasized that the plan calls for armed posse members around the perimeters of schools, not inside them. It will focus on about 50 schools within Maricopa County.
Sheriff Arpaio says members of the volunteer posse provide their own equipment and don’t receive a salary, so there’s no cost to taxpayers. But, he says, the volunteers have the experience to handle the job.
“The posse has the same training regarding guns as our regular deputy sheriffs, over 100 hours of training, plus refresher courses,” he said. “We should never have a defeatist attitude. We look to the future and take whatever precautions we can do. I don’t just want to talk, I like action.”
Arpaio has used similar volunteer groups to patrol malls over the holidays. Posse members arrested 31 people this year, and the sheriff thinks their presence may deter criminal activity.
I think any of us who follow the gun issue know that this will NOT result in “Blood in the Streets” as the antis always (and wrongly) predict. Further no pay for the volunteers, as well as no public equipment means they’ll likely be harder to spot by the nuts in the unlikely event they target the school.
Let’s face it, the common denominator in these events is the “Gun Free Zone” status. Its not a protection, its a crazy magnet!
Much like the statement that an armed society protects from government tyranny, because tyrants won’t act on armed people, I suspect this will make damn sure the crazies go someplace else.
