Friday Opinion
Read Gary Bauer, Mona Charen, David Limbaugh, Rebecca Hagelin, Marc A. Thiessen and more.
Best of Right Opinion
- Gary Bauer: Another School Shooting
- Mona Charen: No Names
- David Limbaugh: I Wish I Were as Bad a Christian as Mike Pence
- Rebecca Hagelin: Soros vs. America
- Marc A. Thiessen: Despite the Olympic Glow, Half of Korea Remains in Darkness
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Opinion in Brief
Gary Bauer: “To me an obvious thing is for schools to have armed and trained security guards. It is not unusual to see armed security guards at banks because we don’t want someone taking our money. Aren’t our children more valuable? Instead, we ‘protect’ them with ‘Gun-Free Zone’ signs. It makes absolutely no sense for our children’s safety to depend entirely on whether or not a maniac wakes up in the morning and decides to kill children in a ‘gun free zone.’ Guess what? Once the killer steps onto the campus of that school, it is no longer a ‘gun-free zone,’ and the only armed individual is the criminal. Why is this so controversial to the Left? Sadly, it is easier for a murderer to walk into a school with a gun than it is for a student to walk in with a Bible and attempt to give it away. The default position of progressives is to attack the Second Amendment and the availability of guns. Yet the percentage of households with guns has been declining for decades. Fewer Americans hunt today than did several decades ago. In fact, many schools used to have gun clubs on campus. Yet school shootings were rare. Logic suggests that something else explains this shocking trend.”