History and opinion as to America's mass [school] shootings and the Liberal mythologies surrounding the problem..

If you are still considering your opinion on gun control,  consider the following Fox News report and the words of Police Chief Fitch.  But,  add this to the mix:  more than 23,000 schools already have qualified personnel on campus.  legally qualified to carry a weapon in that situation.  

In 1999, ,  Bill Clinton funded a program (with 60 million dollars) to put qualified people (mostly cops) onto school campuses across the nation.  It was called "Cops In Schools."  and was/is a grant program that received 19 funding offerings through 2005.  The program remains in force,  but not funded in the last several years.  

The Columbine murders (13 students/adults killed) took place in 1999,  four years after the Clinton weapons ban went into effect.  

In 1927,  38 school children were killed in the worst school mass murder in American history.  The killer used a series of bombs and was the first "car bomber" in World history  --  proving,  of course,  that guns are not needed in the implication of mass murder. 

The Aurora, Colorado,   theater killings were done in the one theater of 7 located within two miles of the killers home,  that had signage on the premises advertising a "no concealed weapons allowed"  as if killers care about such restrictions. 

The Fort Hood killings occurred in a section of the fort in which guns were banned !!  Can you imagine,  soldiers being denied the right to carry while in one of their own facilities ??  Even an idiot would have to admit that if guns had been allowed in that venue,  the casualty count would not have been so high.   Heck,  the Cairo Marines, attacked by a mob on the morning of 9/11,  did not have live admonition in their guns and their commanders thought this was a good idea. 

Finally,  since the end of the Clinton gun ban (2004),  gun ownership has dropped by nearly 50% (pistols) and 15% for long guns (rifles and shotguns)  --  all with the benefit of any gun law.  
 

FOX2 Now reported:

St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch created controversy after the Newtown, Connecticut massacre when he said that school employees should be armed.  

President Barack Obama and others favor re-instating the ban on assault weapons and outlawing ammunition magazines that hold more than ten rounds. Chief fitch says it’s way too late for any of that.

Chief Fitch says the rush to buy guns after the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown shows that it’s too late for any new gun control laws to have any real effect. Fitch says with hundreds of millions of guns already in the hands of private owners in the United States, that it’s already easy for anyone who wants to have a gun to get one. And Fitch says armed deterrence, like having an armed police officer at every school, is easier to do than trying to get guns off the street.

“I think that horse is out of the barn. We know there’s over three hundred million guns in this country that are out there. I don’t think there’s any way, I mean, if you pass a law it may feel good to pass a law, but realistically, what’s it going to change? You’re not going to, nobody in this country’s going to go up and knock on every door person’s door and say turn in your assault weapons, turn in your ammo. That’s not going to happen,” stated Chief Fitch.

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The COPS in Schools (CIS) grant program is designed to help law enforcement agencies hire new, additional school resource officers (SROs) to engage in community policing in and around primary and secondary schools. CIS provides an incentive for law enforcement agencies to build collaborative partnerships with the school community and to use community policing efforts to combat school violence.

The COPS in Schools program provides a maximum federal contribution up of to $125,000 per officer position for approved salary and benefit costs over the 3-year grant period, with any remaining costs to be paid with local funds. Officers paid with CIS funding must be hired on or after the grant award start date. All jurisdictions that apply must also demonstrate that they have primary law enforcement authority over the school(s) identified in their application, and also demonstrate their inability to implement this project without federal assistance. Funding will begin when the new officers are hired on or after the grant award date, and will be paid over the course of the 3-year grant period.

http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/default.asp?Item=54

Flashback: Clinton Requests $60 Million to Put Cops in Schools

In their zeal to rampage this left-wing agenda, the media has apparently forgotten that back in 2000, on the one-year anniversary of the Columbine shooting (which occurred with an assault weapons ban in place), President Clinton requested $60 million in federal money to fund a fifth round of funding for a program called "COPS in School," a program that does exactly what the NRA is proposing and the media is currently in overdrive mocking:

Clinton also unveiled the $60-million fifth round of funding for "COPS in School," a Justice Department program that helps pay the costs of placing police officers in schools to help make them safer for students and teachers. The money will be used to provide 452 officers in schools in more than 220 communities.

"Already, it has placed 2,200 officers in more than 1,000 communities across our nation, where they are heightening school safety as well as coaching sports and acting as mentors and mediators for kids in need," Clinton said.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/12/21/Flashback-Clinton-Cops-in-Schools