What happened at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia is a tragedy that should not be repeated. Anyone who has been touched by a mass murder like that will no doubt tell you about their experiences of losing someone they loved in such an attack.
But Apalachee High could have been so much worse. While four people being killed is beyond awful, school resource officers responded quickly and ended the threat before it got worse.
Apalachee High School won't go down as anything close to Parkland, Uvalde, or Virginia Tech, thankfully.
And yet, in 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris called for removing these officers from our schools.
Vice President Kamala Harris advocated for the removal of police officers from schools in an effort to "demilitarize" school campuses, according to unearthed footage from 2019.
"What we need to do about … demilitarizing our schools and taking police officers out of schools. We need to deal with the reality and speak the truth about the inequities around school discipline. Where in particular, Black and Brown boys are being expelled and or suspended as young as, I've seen, as young as in elementary school," Harris said in 2019 in South Carolina, when she served as a California senator running for president during the 2020 cycle.
Well...that aged like milk on a Georgia dashboard in August.
Now, there may be issues with school resource officers overreacting in some schools. However, it strikes me as strange that while Harris has been tripping over herself to attack the right to keep and bear arms, she's ignoring that the shooting ended because of a program she opposes.
“Once again,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, “a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun, demonstrating how wrong Kamala Harris was about the importance of armed school resource officers, who literally saved lives in Georgia. It’s just one of many things, especially relating to firearms and crime intervention, she’s been wrong about during her political career.”
“Kamala Harris was wrong about removing armed school resource officers,” he added. “It’s time for the media to end its love fest with the vice president and start looking at what else she’s been wrong about.”
Of course, there's not a lot of chance of the media doing a lot of that.
We've long argued that generally, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. This is a prime example.
However, I have to wonder what would have happened if the first teacher who saw the killer, the one who simply refused to open the door, had been armed and been able to do more than just keep him outside of his or her classroom. Could more lives have been saved? Could the attack have ended before it truly began?
We'll never really know, unfortunately. This is a case of "What if?" and we all can manipulate that to be whatever we want.
What we do know is that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to get rid of the very officers who kept this attack from being so much worse than it was.
Yet this is no different than her dedication to disarming the American people as a whole. She continues to labor under the delusion that gun control is somehow a net good, which it might be for someone at the top of the heap and getting taxpayer-funded personal protection--though, after the failures in protecting Trump, I don't know that I'd trust it all that much--but the rest of us don't get that and we also have to worry about the government turning against us.
So on every level, she's wrong.
Especially as school shootings happen in other countries as well, though not at the same rate as we have here. That proves, however, that gun control won't solve the issue.
