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I believe it is, because if it wasn't, we already would have had armed guards at every school after Columbine. Schools across the country are struggling financially. They can't afford to hire enough teachers as is but you think they can afford guards? You have a disconnect from reality there.

How are you going to pay for all these guards? What about the teachers who already carry, maintain and store their guns because they are already responsible gun owners? (So it won't be adding any additional burden because they already do those things on their own).

The problem is all these cops you want to put in all these schools need to get paid. Just some quick Googling and estimating puts the cost at $5.3 billion dollars annually to put an officer in every school. If we can get the funding, great, put an armed officer at every school. But coming up...

Newsweek, 2003

Sorry, I thought by your "no more guns in schools" argument, you would also be opposed to arm guards. Allowing teachers to conceal carry is a much more financially viable option.

There are 13 states (and counting) that allow teachers to conceal carry in some form. 6 in which there are no restrictions on it, 7 that allow it with certain restrictions and/or at the discretion of the school districts.

Hawaii is a state that allows teachers to concealed carry (with certain restrictions). Also:

Then how do you purpose we address the safety of children at schools? As long as schools remain "gun free zones" children are going to be targets for psychopaths who snap and decide to rack up body counts. Do you really think what they saw and the news after Sandy Hook wasn't exposing them to...

The problem is you fears about allowing teachers to conceal carried just hasn't come to fruition. In addition to Utah, Oklahoma, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota and Oregon all allow teachers to conceal carry. Also there are several other states (Ohio, Texas, Arizona along with a couple of...

Doesn't matter, Harbaugh is in a no-win situation with his QB. He doesn't make the switch and they fall short, all the Kaep supports will throw the Chicago game in his face. If the Niners fall short now they are going to throw Smith's completion percentage in his face. It was always going to...

12 years and counting in Utah doesn't count as "precedence?"

Again, this is already happening in schools and to my knowledge, none of your fears have come to fruition as of yet. Do you have anything other than your hypothetical what if to show it is an idea that is "so fucking dumb it's mind boggling?"

The only statistic I have seen regarding this is that the average number of deaths in a mass shooting situation in which the shooter was engaged with by law enforcement is 14. The average number of deaths in a mass shooting situation in which the shooter was engaged with by a civilian with a...

Should be an interesting thread. One issue is that various forms of advertising are going to net different results depending on the business. For example, I don't think social media would have any impact on Lyrical's business what-so-ever, but as a restaurant I have had (varying) successes...

The baseball writers are so terrible. They had no problems turning a blind eye to the steroid era when it was benefiting them in the form of the re-popularization of the sport. Now it is time to vote in some of these guys the writers are going to get on their high horse and judge these guys...

Firestone is one of my favorite breweries that has recently made its way onto the shelves in my area. Doublejack has become my favorite double IPA.

Didn't get a license plate or info or anything? That sucksI guess considering the circumstance at least you came out relatively all right.

The problem is, murderers are criminals who won't have an issue (morally or logistically) in obtaining a gun. But by "getting rid" of them you are removing the most effective tool of self defense against these murderers.

Pretty much says everything anyone needs to know about anything you might contribute to this discussion.

This has been posteda few times but I will post it again with the relevant portion in the quotes, because the author says it better than I can.

Or target areas where they aren't likely to encounter armed resistance such as schools or gun free movie theaters.

Drafting a kicker in the 1st round it a terrible idea because you can pretty much get a decent enough kicker off the street. It has nothing to due with the quality of the kicker and everything to due with the wasted value of the pick. In that draft there were 11 pro-bowlers drafted before the...

Good thing someone posted this just a couple of pages back: Here is another study that does a great break down on the correlation between gun control laws and crime rates. (I like this one because it uses mainly U.S. statistics). http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...55534169,d.cGE So we...

Well if you "don't see it" I guess they must not prevent rape. I mean you must be a more accredited source than the criminologist and professors who have done peer reviewed studies on the matter and you must have more experience with the situation than all those women who have been victims or...

Weeden was undoubtedly a puzzling pick, especially in the first round. But there have been worse first round picks (not talking busts, just terrible "why did you do that?" picks). Let's not forget the Raiders drafted a kicker with the 17th overall pick.

I have a Samsung set and my wife hasn't complained about them so they must work alright.

Hope tomorrows games bring more excitement than today's. Unless you were a Texans/GB fan those games were barely watchable.

Nope, no medications here.

You want to say the statistical data that we have seen out of Australia and England after their gun bans does not support the conclusion that banning guns results in more instances overall in violent crime because we can't prove causation, fine. You sure as hell better find evidence that any...

I have major issues falling asleep. Doesn't matter how few hours of sleep I got the night before nor how tired I feel, I can not fall asleep. Ideally I would like to be asleep sometime between 10:00-11:00pm but I am usually awake till at least 1:30am, usually later. Alarm goes off at 7:30am...

I personally think AP should be the MVP. But it isn't that hard to make an argument that he shouldn't. Look at AP's production in Minnesota's wins vs losses. It was amazingly consistent regardless of the game outcome. Now look at Ponders numbers in wins vs losses. In the wins he was good...

Quick Google Fu pulled up some stats. You can claim the gun ban wasn't the causation I suppose, but the timing is awfully suspicious. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...446855466.html http://www.captainsjournal.com/2012/...ies-and-brits/

There isn't a full amount of data available on this front, but what data we do have shows that the crimes prevented by law abiding citizens using handguns has prevented far more crime than criminals using handguns have caused. These statistics generally do not take into account for the fact...

Most of what you listed are basic human rights. I would think that freedom from tyranny is also a basic human right and the 2nd amendment helps facilitate that.

If you think a three game sample size is enough statistical evidence to discern any sort of meaningful information from then there is little point in posting any further stats for you to take a look at to get your thoughts on trying understand its value.

So your conclusion must be that if the 2011 Niner and Giants met 10 times each team would win 5 games. Then if the 2012 Niner and Giants met 10 times the Giants would win all 10. You know, because of match-ups and what ACTUALLY happened when they played. Hard hitting analysis there, I have no...

2 out of 3 means approximately zilch statistically in this circumstance. Based on what I watched based on the last three games I would say the two teams match up evenly and the last game was a circumstance where the match-ups didn't mean anything because the Giants came in and simply outplayed...

Yup, Giants matched up so well against SF that they took them down twice that season... oh wait.

I feel sorry for this years QB draft class. With RG3, Luck and Wilson all in the playoffs they have set the precedent for the 1-year turnaround. I just don't see any of this years draft class being capable of that.

Yes, and I think the Niners match-up well against Denver. Denver's D will obviously cause more issues than NE's, but the Niners linebackers are going to cause all kinds of problems for Manning. And the Niners don't have to blitz Manning to get pressure. Also I'm not saying you aren't right...