Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on March 8, 2005, to require schools to perform two “lockdown drills” each year. Under current law, schools must conduct eight fire drills and two tornado drills each year. The bill would replace two of the fire drills with lockdown drills. Lockdown drills include establishing secure locations where students are confined, securing the premises, and other security measures as appropriate for emergencies such as the release of a hazardous material or the presence of an armed individual

The vote was 95 in favor, 8 opposed and 6 not voting

(House Roll Call 746 at House Journal 106)

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Great! Let's make sure that all the kids are safely in the locked cafeteria when an armed individual enters an elementary school. That way the murdering lunatic or terrorist can kill them all in one safe place. How about requiring all teachers be armed as part of teacher certification? That way at least someone could shoot the bastard before he kills all the kids. That's a much better solution than herding victims into a nice "safe" area for efficent dispatching.

Mike: You got this right. Teachers should receive incentive pay to qualify for an advanced concealed-carry permit and for actually carrying a weapon on school grounds. Unfortunately, I think that Michigan law expressly forbids the carrying of concealed weapons, even with a permit, in or near a school. If the kind of thinking that is behind this new bill prevails, not only will the bad guys know that school personnel are defenseless, they will soon be able to depend upon a procedure whereby the sheeple will herd themselves into holding pens for easy "hostageability" or slaughter.

All the perp has to do is pull the fire alarm and all the victims will line up for target practice. Maybe we need to attack the problem of WHY we have these nut jobs walking around (no funding for nuthouses) instead of trying to out-gun them. I've got many guns and get my CCW this weekend, so I'm not anti-gun. But it's just SO EASY to whack a bunch of kids. We need to get these fruitcakes off the street BEFORE they attack the school or playground or soccerfield or mall or church or office or grocery or whatever.

Be prepared!