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While the horror of events in Rhode Island sinks in, it is inevitable that, just as night follows day, defenders of mass gun culture across the United States will rush to blame Brown University for not having enough security barriers to entry at the classroom building where the shooting took place.
For them, it is always something else, not the way our nation lives awash in easily available high-capacity firearms, that is at fault. This time, let’s stop the “more security” fallacy before the propaganda machine backing it kicks into high gear.
I am a college teacher, and of course I want my students to be as safe as possible. I have even discussed with students the possibility of a mass shooting event on campus, especially when teaching in classrooms with no opening windows. However, I also do not want students to pay $10,000 more in annual fees to have an army of armed guards in armor stationed at every door or swarms of security drones hovering everywhere.
John Davenport
December 21, 2025
Mass shootings in the US must stop. We need gun control | Opinion
He goes on to build his case against “an army of armed guards.” But other than security guards at K through 12 schools I have never heard anyone suggest anything like what Davenport believes (or claims to believe) to be the case. He never addresses the solution we do advocate. That is an end to “gun free zones”. Let people defend themselves with the best tools available.
There probably is a reason for not mentioning this. I can’t believe it was an oversight on his part. I believe it was a deliberate omission. A form of lie. It is what anti-people do.
When you have to lie and omit and deceive as a routine part of what you claim to believe, perhaps, just perhaps, what you claim to believe is BS. Just a thought.
Of course, for many of the people that are running the “gun control” scam, the entire point is the “control”, and the target is not guns but PEOPLE, so yes, they know.
“Gun free zones” are a particularly stupid idea, though. I have an idea! Let’s just make murder illegal! Then people won’t do it, right?
The people who fall for that are idiots. The people who push it are evil.
As has been repeatedly demonstrated for years, a SUV, van or truck are tools that can be used as very effective mass casualty event weapons. But we still have millions on the roads. Perhaps it’s time for the US to adopt another successful Israeli security strategy. Armed teachers in every public school. Withhold federal funds from all school districts that do not achieve a minimum 10% armed educators – defender staffing levels in each school within the district. Provide a federal stipend of $5000 to each armed educator per year. Require said educator – defenders to pass the pistol shooting / handling exam each year that local law enforcement in that county must pass. Provide $500 funds per educator tested to each county Sheriff’s department to handle the testing and certification
I would accept that federal stipend, provided whoever administers the program does randomized spot checks to make sure the teachers who receive the training and funds to be armed are, in fact, armed while in the school. And fining repeat qualified non-carriers for greater than the stipend.
I wouldn’t put it past some teachers (with the backing of the NEA and their state-level unions) to take the training and apply for the stipend to “bump up the numbers” and establish the illusion of security, but have zero intention of actually carrying on their campuses. If they’re not going to carry, then they don’t need the pay bump to accept the responsibility. But the only way to enforce that is to do random spot checks.
I’m a teacher. There is a certain small percentage who would do very well as armed covert security, who would take it seriously, and make the schools safer.
There is also a larger percentage of hard-core lefties who’d freak out, and actively try to sabotage the white-hat armed teachers, to create or fake an incident, because they are activists for the left, who would make it much more difficult for the good guys to do their jobs.
And the majority of the teachers I’d not trust with a gun under normal circumstances, let alone a high-stress group-defense situation. Stereotypes of teachers exist for a reason; lowest mean GRE scores of any college graduate major, and an emotional coefficient to match.
Perhaps we should ban teachers from operating any motor vehicle with more than 3 wheels. If they’re that emotionally unstable and divorced from reality they have no business operating a 2+ ton machine that can mow dozens of people down at 90 miles per hour on a whim.
i assume he is deliberately inflating the cost to say its unreasonable so we should lose our guns instead…
or he doesn’t have a clue and thinks that is what the guards he envisions actually cost…
More likely he is the second and either making a WAG or quoting someone else’s intentionally exaggerated numbers.
“While the horror of events in Rhode Island sinks in, it is inevitable that, just as night follows day, defenders of mass gun culture across the United States will rush to blame Brown University for not having enough security barriers to entry at the classroom building where the shooting took place.”
No, we don’t think that at all. That’s just TSA on a micro scale. Which also never works.
What we think is that if someone wants to kill us?
I want to kill them back.
Preferably first. It’s my job. Others can help of course. But it’s my responsibility first and foremost.
Never been any different, never will be.
The only difference of today is how many delusional morons have managed to claw their way to power.