Addressing the tragedy on Fox News, Huckabee dismissed calls for stricter gun control and claimed that future violence can be prevented by solving matters of “the heart” and turning to God:
HUCKABEE: Ultimately, you can take away every gun in America and somebody will use a bomb. When somebody has an intent to do incredible damage, they’re going to find a way to do it… People will want to pass new laws, but unless you change people’s hearts, they’re our transition to the pastor side. This is a heart issue, it’s not something, laws don’t change this kind of thing.
NEIL CAVUTO (HOST): You know, inevitably people ask after tragedies like this, how could God let this happen?
HUCKABEE: Well, you know, it’s an interesting thing. We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we’ve systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage because we’ve made it a place where we don’t want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability? That we’re not just going to have to be accountable to the police, if they catch us. But one day, we will stand before a Holy God in judgment. If we don’t believe that, then we don’t fear that.
Yes of course this is the Right Wing response to this tragedy. More guns and God in the schools, and less gays, and all of the nation's troubles will be over.
Clearly Adam Lanza was a deeply troubled young man, who may have been suffering from a mental disorder. Somehow I fail to see how having more Bibles in the school would have had ANY impact on this tragedy.
This is why you don't ask for complicated solutions from simple minded people.
So what did Huckajerk have to say when there was that shooting at the AMISH school? Or when a kid who was brought up in the church bu Bible-thumpers gets Daddy's gun and shoots his girlfriend? These people are insane, and Huck is leading the pack to hell.
ReplyDeleteYes, right - Bibles in schools - THAT'S what would've stopped it!
ReplyDeleteAnd BANKS! We need Bibles in banks, too! Then they wouldn't get robbed.
And those telephone-booth-sized casinos too! PUT BIBLES IN THE CASINOS! At least one of those damned casinos get robbed every night by some fool that has a gun but doesn't have a Bible!
And convenience stores - you know how much gun violence happens in convenience-stores every day?
Well I don't either - but I'll bet it's a LOT!
WE NEED TO GET GOD BACK INTO THE CONVENIENCE STORES!!!
It couldn't be more obvious!
Why isn't anyone paying attention?
Am I not using enough exclamation points?!!!!
Listen: it's just as plain as the nose on your face:
We simply need to shoot every single person that isn't a God-fearing Christian and then give every single person a gun.
How can you not see that?
Very good. I asked my British husband WHAT can Republicans be THINKING? He says, "They don't think."
DeleteWhen thinking has been replaced by rote belief, superstition & zombie adherence to some magical gobble-de-good, what do you expect from them?
That we are still surprised by their reactions is surprising.
Would the bibles in banks prevent them from robbing us, too?
DeleteOnly if your bank account is full of Bibles instead of cash. Oops, I bet I gave Huckster an idea...sell BIBLES to people. Take their cash!
DeleteOne of the very first things I thought as this tragedy was unfolding on my TV yesterday was not only are guns too easy to get but the health care system has failed so many and this is the result. When my husband came home from work one of the first comments he made about this was "thank you, Ronald Regean" (something I say a lot). He's the one that dismantled mental health institutions.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but see a parallel between the need for more gun control and the need for health care for all in this country. When are we going to get it right? Many other countries have universal health care and strict gun laws and tragic incidents like this are less likely to happen. It's a simple formula.
What about MY freedom to be protected from mentally ill gun toting bible thumpers. I want to be FREE of GOD, GUNS AND VAGINAL PROBES!!!! It's time the MAJORITY was heard. Liberals need to start speaking up. Why am I hearing so much from people like Huckabee who are the minority in our country?
We hear so much from the Huckabee mob 'cause they are outrageously stupid and silly and funny (to us) and sane word/logical/reasonable statement don't make the same impact.
DeleteWe like to be outraged so we can feel smug and better. Human nature.
Hi Gryphen, your NRA types are actually slightly right that gun control is not the total answer. Here in Australia gun control is fairly tight but i know a farmer who has a sea container as his gun safe, and when I saw the guns he kept in the house gun safe there were 12 weapons. The point is that anyone who can show a legitimate use for a rifle can have one. Handguns are restricted to security guys and gun club members with very stringent conditions on the storage of their weapons. Our biggest problem with guns is that in rural areas where gun ownership is higher the rate of successful suicide is higher The other side to your gun violence problem is the culture of using guns. It will take some time (generations ?) after sensible gun control is introduced for the death rate to fall.
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Huckabee never answered the question, "How could God let this happen?"
ReplyDeleteHe can't and won't. The only thing these "Christians" can say, when they DO answer. boils down to this -- since EVERYthing that happens is God's will -- "It's God's will that 22 children die." -- what kind of God does that make him? They can't answer that. It's too despressing even for them.
DeleteWhat sickens me is when Survivor contestants pray to their God before a contest to help them wn a million dollars. "Let it be thy will." WHAT????
It's a very small, scared and impoverished mind that needs this religiou shit.
Also, If the parents are teaching their children about God, then there is God in the schools. it doesn't have anything to do with schools teaching children religion. What a doofus.
ReplyDeleteYes, any child is free to pray silently at any time. The prayers simply can't be teacher-forced, but any student who's so inclined can sit at their desk and think whatever prayer they want.
DeleteExactly. And the second the government tries to instill "Christian only" prayer, what about Muslims and Jews? The reasoning, dear idiot Huckabee, is not to take your fake God out of school, but to allow children who believe to pray to THEIR God. What a jerk. A big fat rich white guy who rewrites history for children, and who goes on TV and blames the school system for an NRA sponsored gunman. Again.
DeleteOUr nation was founded on the idea of the separation of church and state. It is only logical that the same seperation applies to public schools. Hence the very existence of private religious schools. The ultimate goal of Mr. Huckabee's comments appears to be part of the continued attack on public education. The GOP really seems to like undereducated, docile, unquestioning followers that are willing to work for Twinkies or kill in the name of his God.
DeleteGood comments here.
DeleteSeparation of state and Church had a different meaning when our Forefathers implimented this,(It was to protect religious beliefs from government interferance)It didnt mean REMOVE God..What Huckabee is saying is as a Society ,we have gotten away from God..and Values..we are a society who is "shocked" at the killing of Children in a school while at the same time are "indifferent" to the millions of abortions of Children that go on daily..
Delete6:24 PM You must be a Westboro Church Member.
DeleteDidn't this man give up preaching once he found out politics paid better? What a hypocrite. He now lives in a multi million dollar mansion on the beach. One of his obese sons was detained at the airport for trying to board a plane with a gun. I do not know if it was the same son who was charged with animal cruelty for abusing and skinning a stray dog. Where was God then? Surely as a preacher he taught his own kids about God and the bible? These hypocrites can always find a soft spot to land on Fox, home of the money grubbing repubs. The parents of these children do not need a two faced so-called preacher telling them what is wrong with the school system. Having lost my son two years ago, I can tell you there is no pain like it. He died from health reasons at 45, but was still my youngest child. I would not even to this day appreciate a hypocrite like lard-assed Huck preaching to me. He should clean up his own backyard first.
ReplyDeleteI am overcome with grief.
ReplyDeleteNewtown is like a Town taken from a Norman Rockwell picture. It is/was such a beautiful place to live and raise children.
CT is my beloved home state. I did not live near Newtown, although I have been there.
If assholes like Huckabee want to criticize because people don't believe in HIS fucking Bible, he needs first to do the Christian (or any believer/non) way. He needs to go to Newtown and help the survivors with their grief.
Nothing like a good ole southern preacher who hasn't the faintest idea about Christianity!!
mary b, if he showed his fat face they'd stone his sorry ass. How dare he use such a horrifying tragedy to score religious points.
DeleteGod is everywhere, whether the pubic schools enforce -- what? -- Creationism and their own versions of the world?
ReplyDeleteGod is in each of us, whether we are in church, or helping our neighbors in big ways and small.
God was in that school. Please explain that, "Rev." Huckabee.
How the gunman carried out his atrocity... and how one teacher saved 20 children's lives by barricading them into closet and praying while killer hammered on the door
ReplyDeleteThe hero music teacher who saved 20 children from being shot dead by the Newtown killer has revealed that she kept them quiet by saying prayers and telling them: ‘I love you’.
Maryrose Kristopik said she barricaded herself in to the closet with the nine and 10-year-olds while gunman Adam Lanza, 20, reportedly battered on the door screaming: ‘Let me in! Let me in!’
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, she revealed that only when the shots which had been ringing out had died down did she lead them all outside to safety.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248357/Connecticut-shooting-Hero-music-teacher-saved-15-children-barricading-closet.html#ixzz2F86lvlUn
'It was my brother. I think my mother is dead. Oh my God': Moment accountant sibling of school shooter saw himself named as killer on TV in case of mistaken identity
Ryan Lanza was working at his desk at the Ernst and Young when he saw CNN reporting that he had killed 30 people at an elementary school in Connecticut.
It was the moment a stunned Ryan realized what his brother, Adam, might have done.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248327/The-moment-accountant-Ryan-Lanza-saw-CNN-mistakenly-report-Sandy-Hook-school-shooter-knew-real-killer-brother-Adam-Lanza.html#ixzz2F8774yea
They sacrificed themselves to save the children: The three selfless teachers gunned down trying to protect students from 'deeply disturbed' Adam Lanza as he massacred 26 at Connecticut school
Victoria Soto threw herself in front of her first grade class to protect them from the gunfire
Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach were killed execution-style after confronting shooter Adam Lanza
Mrs Hochsprung reportedly buzzed Lanza into the school and past the security system because she recognized him as the son of a teacher
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248477/Sandy-Hook-shooting-The-selfless-teachers-gunned-trying-protect-pupils-Adam-Lanza.html#ixzz2F87DAkvj
This has nothing to do with God and everything to do with a nut with a gun. I have always been a big fan of the second amendment, but this incident has changed my view.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what kind of legislation is needed to reduce gun violence, but I am willing to give up my guns if it means reducing these senseless killings.
Thank you for that post!
DeleteHow does Mr. Huckabee and his ilk explain the murders at the Amish school a few years ago? Why didn't God stop that madman? In that case, the gunman murdered children in a very strict Christian school.
ReplyDeleteMany families who send their children to secular public schools are actually Christians. But according to Mr. Huckabee God must not like them.
I would say MOST of the kids in public school have parents who were raised in a church. And Huckabee assumes this kind of rampage never happens in a "Christian" environment? he knows better, but Fox is still reeling from the Obama re-election, and now have to go back to claiming that our ills stem from 'turning away from God,' and wait, I'm certain a finger will be pointed at Obama, and never ever at themselves for creating a hateful atmosphere every day. If there was ever proof of a Devil at work, Huckabee and the entire GOP are it.
DeleteBy the way, Huckster, I don't recall God creating guns in Genesis, do you?
Where is God when priets and preachers are raping children or having affairs with church members or fleecing their members????? I cringe everytime I see and hear the mingle christian ade about let God pick your mate. He's taking time to get you married but doen't have time to worry of your marriage lasts more than a yr or so! Or ifbout children being abused, raped or hungry. The things that happen to children are terrible, and unimaginable to most of us.If they die it's just god's will, he needs them up there with him. I caught the last 2 minutes of sisters wives, this nuts said they had no idea that children were abused in polygamy. What have they been doing all these years,they haven't read a paper? I do think our country can do some things and one would be no one on mental disability should be allowed to have a gun. If their mental disabily is so bad that they can't work or get along with others, why would you put a gun in their hands?
ReplyDeleteIf there was ever proof of atheism, and that there is no supreme being who is all knowing, all goodness, and has infinite wisdom, it is this tragedy. No true God would allow this to happen if the Christians definition of God is true.
ReplyDeleteHe was an honors student who lived in a prosperous neighborhood with his mother, a well-liked woman who enjoyed hosting dice games and decorating the house for the holidays.
ReplyDeleteNow Adam Lanza is suspected of killing his mother and then gunning down more than two dozen people, 20 of them children, at a Connecticut grade school before taking his own life.
The 20-year-old may have suffered from a personality disorder, law enforcement officials said.
Investigators were trying to learn as much as possible about Lanza and questioned his older brother, who is not believed to have any involvement in the rampage.
Lanza shot his mother at their home before driving her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School and – armed with at least two handguns – carried out the massacre, officials said.
A third weapon, a .223-caliber rifle, was found in the car, and more guns were recovered during the investigation.
So far, authorities have not spoken publicly of any possible motive. They found no note or manifesto, and Lanza had no criminal history.
Witnesses said the shooter didn't utter a word.
Lanza's aunt said her nephew was raised by kind, nurturing parents who would not have hesitated to seek mental help for him if he needed it.
Marsha Lanza, of Crystal Lake, Ill., said she was close with Adam Lanza's mother and sent her a Facebook message Friday morning asking how she was doing. Nancy Lanza never responded.
Marsha Lanza described Nancy Lanza as a good mother and kind-hearted.
If her son had needed counseling, "Nancy wasn't one to deny reality," she told The Associated Press late Friday.
Marsha Lanza said her husband saw Adam as recently as June and recalled nothing out of the ordinary about him.
Catherine Urso, who was attending a vigil Friday evening in Newtown, Conn., said her college-age son knew the killer and remembered him for his alternative style.
"He just said he was very thin, very remote and was one of the goths," she said.
Adam Lanza belonged to a technology club at Newtown High School that held "LAN parties" – short for local area network – in which students would gather at a member's home, hook up their computers into a small network and play games.
Gloria Milas, whose son Joshua was in the club with Lanza, said Nancy Lanza hosted one of the parties.
She recalled a school meeting in 2008 organized by the gunman's mother to try to save the job of the club's adviser. At the meeting, Milas said, Adam Lanza's brother Ryan said a few words in support of the adviser, who he said had taken his brother under his wing.
"My brother has always been a nerd," Ryan Lanza said then, according to Milas. "He still wears a pocket protector."
Joshua Milas, who graduated from Newtown High School in 2009, said Adam Lanza was generally a happy person but that he hadn't seen him in a few years.
"We would hang out, and he was a good kid. He was smart," Joshua Milas said. "He was probably one of the smartest kids I know. He was probably a genius."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/15/adam-lanza-newtown-school-shooter-honors-student_n_2306736.html
This is the SOS I heard 10-20 years ago from a half ass x-tain. I forgot the tragedy of the time but I'll never forget the blame game played... blame it on no school prayer. What a great way to have zero responsibly in life.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't work and it only proves how stuck hucksters like Huckabee are.
Remember years ago when all the Amish girls in school were marched to the blackboard and shot execution style killing all those girls? The Amish are very religious and God was in this school with them.
ReplyDeleteThe Huck may think Amish have wrong God. Only the God Huck owns has the plan and you are done if you get the wrong God.
DeleteWhat simplistic thinking and denial Huckabee has to live in a bubble he creates. He has a right to his opinion that religion be taught in schools. Huckabee needs lessons about serial killers who were pillers of their church community.
DeleteHow dare Huckabee blame the victims, cast school employees as not teaching accountability or responsibility?
Why do they go after institutions instead of holding individuals, parents or peer groups accountable?
Mike Huckabee is not in line with the gospel. First of all, saying that "future violence can be prevented by solving matters of the heart and turning to God" points directly back to HIM. IMO, if a pastor believes the need is out there for people to find Christ, then he should be "out" there helping the lonely, reaching out to the mentally challenged, finding ways to be a friend to a young man who is hurting inside.
ReplyDeleteHuckabee's idea that taking God out of schools is going to somehow suddenly turn every kid into a fearless reckless renegade, or a crazed killer. But, doesn't he know that being in "Christ" means being instant in season, ready to reach out? Huckabee should be working in a homeless shelter, or becoming a Big Brother to young confused men, or talking to the addicted, afflicted, oppressed instead of vocalizing his opinion from the safety and comfort of his big Fox Studio. It's people like Huckabee that think they have all the answers to today's problems, yet don't lift a finger to help.
Where was Huckabee when men like all the previous shooters were in their private hells of their minds? Building his new mansion? Re-signing his new contract with Fox? Would God have Mike be occupied with the things of the world rather than to hang around those who are troubled? Maybe an edifying word to them might give them hope and could have prevented them becoming killing machines.
But no, the Huckabees think that a plaque with the 10 Commandments on it, or a picture of a white Jesus on the wall, or a prayer in classroom to start the new day is going to make the difference. Legislating a prayer in a classroom is far removed from a child who "wants" to talk to God every morning in his own home, before he sets out to start his day. Forcing kids to 'pray' when they don't have the heart for it isn't going to make the nation a better place.
If Huckabee wants to blame this tragedy on the lack of God in public, then the answer to his problem starts with HIM. People like him need to leave their cushy jobs and walk a few steps down the influential media ladder, and act out what they preach. God intended for it to begin with US, not government.
Piers Morgan Explodes At Gun Advocate: ‘How Many Kids Have To Die’ Before You Change Your Mind?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/piers-morgan-explodes-at-gun-advocate-how-many-kids-have-to-die-before-you-change-your-mind/
Not a fan of Piers in general, but I have to give him a lot of credit for that one!
DeleteAlong the same lines, Rush's blackheads exploded on air, again, and he's after Piers and Wagner.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-attacks-piers-morgan-and-msnbcs-wagner-for-trying-to-blame-conservatives-for-ct-shooting/
Mike Fuckabee, becoming a Phelps.
ReplyDelete"Becoming?" always has been.
DeleteI guess Huckabee's son didn't have god when he tortured and killed those animals, huh? I wonder...did Huckabee pray before he fired the prosecutor who DARED to file charges against the son of the governor? Did he FEEL GOD when he took away a man's livelihood just because he couldn't deal with the fact that his son is a little psycho?
Deletehttp://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/12/17/details-of-huckabees-dog-torture-episode-coming-out/
Someone should clue in Huckabee. God is busy with NFL Quarterback Tim Tebow and the important prayer.
DeleteI wonder what Mr Huckabee's excuse for these killings is then......
ReplyDelete1980 First Baptist Church of Daingerfield, Texas. Eight died in that incident.
June 20, 1994 Former airman Dean Allen Mellberg, 20, opened fire inside a hospital at the Fairchild Air Force Base before he was shot dead by a military police officer outside. Total injured and killed: 28
September 1999 - a gunman opened fire at a prayer service in Fort Worth, Texas, killing six people before committing suicide.
November 2004 - in Birchwood, Wisconsin, a hunter killed six other hunters and wounded two others after an argument with them.
March 2005 - a man opened fire at a church service in Brookfield, Wisconsin, killing seven people.
November 2009 - U.S. army psychologist Major Nidal Hasan opened fire at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas, leaving 13 dead and 42 others wounded.
April 2 - A gunman kills seven people and wounds three in a shooting rampage at a Christian college in Oakland.
I'm sure there are more, but this is enough to show Mike Huckabee that having guns or Christanity does not prevent acts of violence by deranged people.
Rick
Yeah. Huckabee can tell us all about god as soon as he explains why he let a rapist serial killer out of prison when he was governor of Arkansas because he thought the man had "found god". Of course the man went on to rape and kill again.
ReplyDeleteAsshole Mike Huckabee.
Ugh, a few of my idiot Facebook friends were saying the same thing yesterday...blaming the shooting on God being taken out of schools. I should have known they stole the idea from blowhard Huckabee. I have news for them...there are plenty of schools that use religion in the curriculum. Their conviction only runs deep enough for Facebook whining, though, not to the level of actually paying for private school.
ReplyDeleteBut before we give President Obama a pass for his sterling speach and tears yesterday, and we all give ourselves a pat on the back for our caring and outrage over this tragic event, we have some reconciling to do.
ReplyDeleteWhere is our caring and outrage for the children killed in Pakistan and Yemen by US drone strikes? (this account places the number at 178) These are still innocent children and they are just as dead as the children in Connecticut. And the same President who cried for the Connecticut children orders even more drone strikes. This is a major reason I didn't support him this time around.
Rick
Rick
DeleteNobody cares what you think about the President. Thanks for showing your true colors.
Rick, obviously your support meant nothing. If the Drone strikes offend you so much, why don't you go to the Middle East and wave your Magic Wand. I'm sure that will go a long way to stop the TERRORISM.
DeleteSorry, forgot the link.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald/us-drone-strikes-are-caus_b_2224627.html
Rick
Ah, yes, the GOP tactic....if you say it often enough, then people will believe that it must be true....While I certainly can't speak to the school that Huck attended, but growing up in the 1950s, God and/or religion was not a part of the school day. My mother taught school in the 1950s - 1970s and although she was very religious in in personal life, religion was not part of the elementary schools were she taught. So while this is only my limited experience, I would still ask Huck how can you remove something that was never there?
ReplyDeleteAnd Huck, what about the millions slaughtered in the name of God? Where was God in those slaughters?
I share your experience. There was never any religion in my public schools either. I will be 70 shortly.
DeleteThis can all be traced to the great Ronald Ragan, closing all the mental hospitals and drying up funds for mental health help that's going on now. With them not doing anything about making jobs, and reducing our wages things like this to get worse, the slaves they are making, will revolt or get so depressed that they will go crazy.
ReplyDeleteSo, I guess what "Fuckabee" (and his diseased ilk) are saying is that God--for want of adequate glorification--righteously stepped out of the way in a fit of anger (or an act of "protest") whilst 20 young children were massacred to advocate for the necessity of religion?
ReplyDeleteBoy, that's some petty, weak-minded, pathetic deity. I'll stick with anti-theism, thank you.
Posted by berndoubt:
ReplyDeleteAnyone who worships a god who would have 20 five-year-old children killed to prove a point about prayer in schools is as sick as their fucking god.
Mike Huckabee is a giant jaclass! Go away, Huckabee ya big fat ass!!!
ReplyDeleteHe's a smarmy little fuck wad. There, I feel better now.
ReplyDeleteI was dead for 4 minutes. Full cardiac arrest and respiratory failure.
ReplyDeleteI've been to the flip side, and I find that being dead would be the PERFECT opportunity for a benevolent being to step forward and show this young atheist that, hey, there is a god. It would have been the perfect way to convert all those who don't believe, by showing an adamant non believer that there is, in fact, a god.
And I was saved!!!!
By the ER doctors.
There was no white light. There were no dead relatives. My brain did flood with DMT from my pineal gland, and nerve endings in my brain and eyes did fire off in a last chance effort to make sense of clinical death.
But there was no god.
And for Huckabee to be so audacious to say that he knows what god would and would not do, and he would allow children to die because there was no prayer in schools, when these children could very well have attended mass on Sunday's, it absolutely sickening.
Huckabee is an asshole and I cannot believev he was even considered as a candidate for USPO!
ReplyDeleteI've listened to his radio show and heard him lie and just plain out agitate things.
If he is a minister, I'd NEVER attend his church or sermons.
No wonder America is becoming less and less christians with examples like this man! Don't trust this guy any futher than I could throw him and that wouldn't be far -
God must have been absent when: Track cut the School Bus brake lines, when Willow VANDALIZED a home, when Bristol spread her legs in a tent in a drunken stupor, when CREEPY CHUCKLES told his girls to not wear panties to bed, when Track and Bristol used drugs and alcohol on Dylan Kolvig's Dad's boat, when
ReplyDeleteTAWD PIMPED AND PROSTITUTED for Profit, when Sarah LIED about the WILD RIDE, when CBJ assisted with the BABY HOAX? Maybe the HUCKSTER and the GRIFTER FAMILY have a different GOD.
I know I'm late to this post but just wanted to add a another BIG FU to Huckabee. What an ass. I am so sick of these religious people thinking they know it all. You don't, so shut your big ignorant mouth.
ReplyDeleteHuckabee pardoned two men (purportedly because they found Jesus in prison). One went onto to rape and murder a woman (and a 4 year old child). And the other killed 4 policeman while they were having breakfast. AND PEOPLE STILL LISTEN TO THIS GUY?!
ReplyDeleteSadly, this seems to be a mime of the evangelical right.
ReplyDeleteI was unaware that praying in public schools was common in some areas of the country when I began my teaching career in the early 1970s.
I had attended parochial school through 4th grade, and always interpreted the concept of "Separation of Church and State" as meaning prayer was not to be part of a public school experience.
Had I been told that I was expected as part of my job description to start leading a non-denominational prayer or a Moment of Silence daily, I would not have continued practicing my teaching profession.
Had I wanted to lead public prayer, I would have chosen a different profession.
Some folks seem to think that teachers arming themselves would be a good thing. As for me, it makes me cringe.
Personally, as a recently retired teacher, the thought of some of my former colleagues packing at a middle school does not soothe my nerves at all. Actually, I find the thought alone to be scary as hell.
Over the years security did become something we adjusted to as armed resource officers were assigned to middle and high schools in my district. But, these were police officers who knew the ramifications of using their weapon and were trained in using it.
This "Wild West concept" is too 19th century for a 21st century world.
As far as I am concerned, towns having there own militias was necessary in the 1700s. But, as we moved from colonies to states there was an apparatus put in place that allowed for what would become today's National Guard.
So, having a National Guard Armory located in an adjacent town works fine for me. But, individuals using weaponry meant for the military under a ruse of the 2nd amendment is and has always been a recipe for disaster.
If a few tweaks of gun law aren't put in place this time will we next hear of a situation involving a newborn nursery at a large hospital???
What a sad time for America on so many levels.
I agree that the thought of teachers being armed is not a reasonable solution.
DeletePerhaps a metal detector with a security guard for anyone without proper identification (such as a school issued ID for teachers and other employees) would be required to pass through.
This could easily be paid for by a tax on the sale of all fire arms and ammunition. Waiting for the NRA to step up to the plate.
DeleteAccording to Christian theology, isn't God omniscient and omnipresent? Why wouldn't He also be here at this place at this time?
ReplyDeleteWould Jesus, who loved all children, abandon these children in their time of need?
Who is this God of Huckabee's?
Yeah, God MADE him SLAUGHTER those innocent kids, teachers and administrators with God sanctioned ASSAULT WEAPONS, afterall the commandments CLEARLY say "Kill thy Neighbors".
ReplyDeletereverend Huckabee is sorely mistaken, I'm willing to wager there was a LOT of prayer in that school that day.
I think a more "believable" argument is that things like this didn't happen as often when there was Asbestos in school, ergo taking Asbestos out of the Schools caused this massacre.
one word: NUTBAG!
ReplyDeleteI knew it was only a matter of time...these simple-minded idjits can't think past their own narrow little scope and falling back on religion is all they can offer.If someone suffers from mental illness,please tell me,HOW THE HELL IS RELIGION GOING TO HELP THEM???You can't pray away an illness,be it mental or physical,can't these buffoons get that?
ReplyDeleteAnd also,these same loonies who want Gawd in schools also want everyone and anyone to have access to any weapon they want,"Gawd guns n guts made 'Meriiker",so if the guns are still everywhere how will religion in schools do any good?
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