Education

Armed Teachers: Over 600 Have Applied for Training

7:00am Wednesday, January 02, 2013
After the mass murder at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, Buckeye Firearms Foundation announced that they would provide free firearms training to teachers and school administrative staff . So far, the Armed Teacher Training Program has attracted more than 600 applicants from all parts of Ohio and several from other states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,...

2012 - The Year In Review

7:00am Monday, December 31, 2012
By Chad D. Baus While there is far too much to cover in a single article, we reflect on some of the important events of 2012. January: The year begins with continued debate over whether or not Canton police officer Daniel Harless, who was caught on dash-cam video verbally assaulting and threatening to "execute" a concealed handgun licensee, deserved to be fired. Harless is terminated, and the...

Who Will Stand For Our Children? Voluntary Armed Parents in Schools

3:00pm Friday, December 28, 2012
by Ron Borsch INTRODUCTION AND DEFINING THE PROBLEM It is important for us to first understand the "Rapid Mass Murder"© problem, the most common motivation of these active killers, how we can reduce the copycat effect, ( http://www.lorencoleman.com/copycateffect/ ), as well as the number of these incidents and then look at the "Final Option" of armed intervention. We hope to at least initiate all...

OOPS: In rant calling for magazine ban, NBC's David Gregory demonstrates why gun control laws don't work

7:00am Friday, December 28, 2012
by Chad D. Baus In the days since the latest horrific mass murder in a "no-guns" zone, the media onslaught has been relentless. Never mind that Connecticut already has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, including an "assault" weapons ban - the media say more such laws are what is needed. Never mind that guns were banned in the school where the attack took place - the media say...

Op-Ed: We know how to stop school shootings

3:00pm Thursday, December 27, 2012
by Ann Coulter In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman's mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's attention is riveted on what could have been done to prevent such a massacre. Luckily, some years ago, two famed economists, William Landes at the University of Chicago and John Lott at Yale, conducted a massive study of multiple...

Amidst Tragedy, Logic and Reason Must Prevail

3:00pm Wednesday, December 26, 2012
by Tim Inwood Like all of you I was reeling for days over the horror of what happened in Newtown, Connecticut. The victims for the most part were so young, so innocent. There is no reason to bother to try to rationalize what this lunatic did as it was evil and insane. As a parent my deepest sympathies and condolences go out to the families suffering at what should have been a happy time of year...

Moving forward: If more gun control laws are not the answer, what is?

7:00am Wednesday, December 26, 2012
by Jim Irvine The sorrow over the killing of 27 people, including 20 elementary school children, in Newtown, Connecticut has started to change to anger. Typically, pro-gun and anti-gun forces are digging in their heels for the fight ahead. But we owe it to those children and their families to learn from the failures that allowed so many innocent people to be slaughtered. President Obama stated...

Arming teachers – Protecting precious people with guns is already a generally accepted practice

7:00am Monday, December 24, 2012
by Jim Irvine In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings, multiple people have suggested that we must look at arming teachers. This is met by skepticism and thoughts that this approach is radical or politically unattainable. The reality is that it’s already an accepted idea. Each of our Presidents and former presidents are protected by people with guns. We do that because they are...

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