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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>"<SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The PTA's
solution is to make sure people can't get guns."</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Well, we've
heard from the NRA and the PTA.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Whose plan
is actually doable?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Whose plan
is constitutional?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Folks on
the forum have gone out of their way to point out flaws (and there certainly are
some) in the NRA's idea,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">lets hear
exactly how the PTA's counter idea would be carried
out.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The NRA
position hinges on allowing teachers who are willing to carry concealed, to
emplace an armed security person, and to design future facilities to be easier
to secure. Difficult, expensive, and questionable as to over all effectiveness
to be sure.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Would
someone out there who has been flat out dismissing the NRA plan as preposterous
and impossible clue me in to the mechanics of the PTA
alternative?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [SPAM][Vision2020] Washington PTA director rips NRA school
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<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The executive director of Washington
State's Parent-Teacher Association says the NRA's proposal to put armed guards
at every school is a bad idea.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">After staying silent for a week to
respect the families of the Newtown shooting victims, NRA executive vice
president Wayne LaPierre Jr. spoke at a press conference Friday in Washington,
D.C. to address ways to prevent future school shootings.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"When it comes to our most beloved,
innocent, and vulnerable members of the American family - our children - we as a
society leave them every day utterly defenseless," said LaPierre.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"The only thing that stops a bad guy with
a gun is a good guy with a gun," said LaPierre.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Washington State PTA executive director
Bill Williams told Pat Cashman and Lisa Foster,<A
href="http://mynorthwest.com/category/dori_monson/">filling in for Dori</A>,
that the NRA's strategy is the wrong way to go.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">He said that a school using armed
security could lead students to feel more fearful rather than feeling
safer.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"For kids to be successful they have to
feel safe. And if they're in an armed encampment I think they're far less likely
to feel safe," said Williams.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The PTA's solution is to make sure people
can't get guns.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"This is based on national PTA policy,"
said Williams. "We disagree very strongly. We don't want schools to become armed
fortresses and we think the best way is to prevent access to firearms and make
sure that only those who can appropriately handle them are, in fact, licensed to
carry firearms."</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Williams explained that even if they
considered arming guards in schools there are problems finding well trained
guards that would staff schools. <A
href="http://mynorthwest.com/76/2155992/Reading-writing-revolvers-Is-it-time-to-give-teachers-guns">Some
opponents have said having armed guards would make schools more
dangerous</A> if they don't know what they're doing.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Even if schools hired armed private
security guards or cities had more school resource police officers, children
still might not be safe.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"I remember when banks used to have armed
guards," said Williams, "and that didn't stop bank robbers so I don't know why
anyone thinks that having armed guards at schools is going to be the solution to
this problem."</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Washington State legislators are also
looking at a solution that targets access to firearms:<A
href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2010527541_gunban17m.html"
target=new>trying to ban semi-automatic "assault-style" weapons</A>.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">King County Sheriff John Urquhart agreed
with Williams, saying that pushing for armed guards too simplistic.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"I don't think you have to look farther
than Lakewood. In Lakewood we had four armed police officers armed, trained that
were shot and killed by one person," said the Sheriff.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">But Sheriff Urquhart proposed a broader
approach than just banning guns. He thinks that targeting violence as a whole in
America and focusing on strengthening existing regulations will keep schools
safer. For example, he says that lawmakers should look at making it harder for
mentally ill people to get guns.</SPAN></P>
<P style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">"Unfortunately there was this tragedy
that occurred," said Urquhart, "but if anything good comes out of it, it'll be
for once we'll have a good broad discussion and not try to focus in on broad gun
control or putting officers in schools because neither one is the
solution."</SPAN></P></DIV>
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