SPECTRUM: If our children are our most valuable resource, why don’t we protect them

Another massacre at a school. Why?

In this case, the warning signs were there according to the shooter’s classmates and his teachers. He was even on a watch list. He had been suspended for violence. Like all of the other school shooters, this individual was on behavior altering drugs. And, the school was unprotected from armed attack.

After billions of dollars expended in Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) grants since 2001, our schools are still unprotected from armed attack. Why?

I wrote about the 14 December, 2012 Sandy Hook shooting at Examiner.com and in this paper. I studied that event from the data available. Connecticut received over $685M in DHS homeland security grants from 2001 through 2011. Yet, Sandy Hook was still without a reinforced main door the day of the attack. 11 years after 9-11, Connecticut and the school district had managed to do most things right, but the main door was the weak point. The windows in the door were not wire reinforced to prevent breakage. Why was the job of hardening Sandy Hook not finished? More importantly, why were there no armed guards and/or armed staff to stop an armed attack?

Connecticut’s homeland defense priorities were not in protecting children in the schools, and that lack of priority extends to the rest of the United States. We do not take threats of armed attack on our schools seriously.

Monuments to politicians had been built nationwide with the DHS grant money, but nationwide our schools remained vulnerable. Why, if our children are our most valuable resource?

What happened in Florida was simply more of the same failing to face reality at all levels of government and by the people of the community. Why, are the armed law abiding the threat, and not the evil that walks amongst us, whether criminal, terrorist, or the mentally disturbed?

Israel struggled with terrorism from its inception in 1947. The schools were the focal point of attacks by terrorists until the Israeli government required armed guards and armed staff. Field trips are made with armed guards and armed staff. Since, there have been no attacks by terrorists or criminal elements upon Israel’s schools.

Armed security is a matter of fact, not exception with our government agencies, courts, buildings, banks, and private industry. In Alaska, even the Dept. of Environmental Conservation water quality sampling technician is armed by the state for self-defense. Why do government employees merit armed protection and our children in schools do not?

Look, no further than the National Teachers Association (NEA), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the Democratic Party. The NEA, the AFT and the Democratic Party are rabidly anti-second Second Amendment, and rabidly against any armed protection for our children.

Yet, they promote abortion, sex with children, and perversion. They are firmly against Christianity, the sanctity of life and traditional family values. They support anything anti-Christian, favoring Islam and any other religion over Christianity. Their god is man as his own master under the atheist religion of secular humanism. Secular humanism is the new state religion of government at every level, in open violation of the 1st Amendment bar against the establishment of a state sponsored religion.

Their lack of respect for life is reflected in their policies of keeping the schools unprotected.

Given their love of abortion, why do they howl in rage over the killing of any human being? Is such a killing not merely a delayed abortion? Life is life, is it not? How is one life given more weight than another? Is not such a judgment playing the God who is so abhorrent to these folks?

The killing of children in an unprotected school is an outrage that is used by the Left to promote their nation killing agenda. They do not desire to resolve the underlying issue, which is: why are our schools still unprotected from armed attack?

Evil walks amongst us, it is time to stop ignoring reality and to prepare for the threat.

The next governor of Alaska needs to end policies that do not protect our schools from armed attack. It is time to allow armed school staff, to provide armed guards, to allow the law abiding concealed carry in schools, and to stop using tragedy to further political goals.