Due to his age, the murderer who took the lives of two 14-year-old students and two adults at Apalachee High School, and wounded nine others, in Winder, GA on Sept. 4th, 2024, is not likely to get life in prison without parole. So he could theoretically be turned loose when he is in his 40's or 50's. And that would be way too soon.
How will his victims and their families feel about that?
How do they feel now that state law in Georgia, and the school board failed them?
State law and the school board failed all of these victims of mass-murder and wounding by preventing lawful carriers from providing a sorely needed layer of security in their school, without replacing that lost layer with sufficient armed agents of the government. That is adding injury to insult, literally.
If the government is going to make a place off-limits to self-defense, it had better provide at LEAST the same level of protection that citizens would provide for themselves if they were allowed to do so.
Dialing 911 and waiting is NEVER a good option when you are under lethal attack by a madman intent on killing as many innocents as he can.
The ONLY SANE and MORAL option is for adults right there to shoot back immediately.
Georgia law is neither sane nor moral. It penalizes good citizens and prevents them from doing the necessary job of fighting back with the only effective tool there is, a firearm.
If effective self-defense is not a right in schools for the protection of the most innocent, why even call it a right?
From today forward, I never want to hear another Gold Dome Republican in Atlanta say, "It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun", unless he or she puts forth a proper pro-self-defense bill.
Because the lie on that was exposed yesterday. The good guys are not permitted to have a gun on school property.
There are not enough special-favored and unlicensed and untrained court clerks (who are authorized to legally carry a gun on K-12 school property) to provide any real measure of safety.
The murderer is not a bad looking "kid". He doesn't look like a monster, but he is one.
Know that even now there are more of them, waiting for their moment to strike, even now making their diabolical plans.
Georgia's state lawmakers have KNOWN that one of these monsters would eventually strike. How do I know that? It's because none of them EVER guaranteed that it wouldn't happen. There's a reason for that. It's that evil always strikes when it sees the opportunity. That's only common sense.
School boards since at least 2014 have been able to grant permission for teachers, staff, parents, and grandparents to legally carry a firearm on school property. They have been loath to do so, with only perhaps two or three tiny rural school districts taking advantage of this safety option. Laurens and Fannin Counties come to mind. That pails to what is needed. It's like giving a man in the desert a single drop of water.
Is Barrow County one of them? I doubt it, but even if they do, it certainly wasn't to the degree needed. This is why school boards need to be removed from the decision-making process on this. State law needs to preempt this wicked denial of our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That right doesn't vanish merely because we step foot on school property, does it?
It's high time that licensed-to-carry citizens with proof of a firearms safety course be authorized to carry in "School Safety Zones" as the General Assembly ironically calls them, to provide genuine safety and security. Other states have done it, as I outlined in my first article on this tragic news. Do those states care more about the innocent than our state?
Until the General Assembly takes its job seriously and acts, it needs to rename "School Safety Zones" to "Victim-Rich Zones". At least that would be a good measure of honesty.
For five years I've been warning our state lawmakers this would happen. How many more years do they need to make up their minds to allow human beings their God-given right to protect themselves?
How much more bloodshed and how many more victims do they need to see the light?
Wait, what?! The school had resource officers there at the school, and it still took them minutes to get to the shooter? Waiting minutes for help to arrive costs lives. There were adults already near where the shooter was that could have saved lives had they been allowed to be armed:
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"Within minutes of the first reports of an active shooter, school resource officers confronted the suspect, 'who gave up and got on the ground,' Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said."