Within three days of the Horrible tragedy which happened
last week at the school in Newtown, a Grade School that is two blocks from our
business has contacted the company I work for (my day job) about being a
potential Safe Haven for the children the of the school in case, God forbid,
that school is ever threatened by anything which would require the evacuation
the school.
This entire process is in its beginning stages but everyone
where I work is extremely excited about the idea. As we work in a giant tire warehouse with
tons of space and we are always here when schools might happen to be in session.
We are an almost perfect fit for this
insightful solution to a possible threat.
We have the space, a secure location that is fully manned at all times
with hard working Americans who almost all of us are parents of children. It is amazing how several of us got teary
eyed just discussing the possibility of being entrusted with such a high and
noble responsibility as helping to provide a Safe Haven and safe guard others
children in case of an emergency.
It was inspiring to see these tough hard working guys step
up to say they would do anything in order to help in a situation such as this
was inspiring. I feel too many times the
bad guys get all the press. The good
guys in this country outnumber the bad guys by an extremely large margin. Our country sees this happen whenever a
tragedy strikes. It’s time the good guys
step forward and say we are not going to put up with this any longer.
In essence, if we get selected to provide this Safe Haven
for this school, in case of an emergency our company would literally shut down
its normal business functions and transform into a Safe Haven locked down
fortress to protect and care for the entire population of a grade school within
moments. Even as it is just in the
planning stages the protocols are being figured out, supplies purchased, Rally
points created, even the planning of getting many buckets of chalk so the
children can spend their time here drawing and coloring all over our immense
concrete floors.
I thought that part was wildly creative. What could 600 children do while waiting for
things to calm down and a situation to be resolved? It’s a giant warehouse. They could collectively work on a giant mural
on a canvas concrete canvas longer than a football field. We even have a couple of artists in house who
could draw some large pictures to be colored in and get them started.
I sincerely hope schools across the country are doing
similar things to ensure the safety of our children. Schools and Churches should be two places
that are sacred and off limits to violence.
Unfortunately the forces of evil see them as places through which they
can inflict the worst of their evil. I
for one am tired of it.
Within moments of last week’s tragedy people were screaming
everywhere about how we need more gun control.
The weapons this monster used were the property of his mothers and
obviously they were not secured properly so that anybody could get their hands
on them. The bad guys will get weapons,
just as they get drugs and other stuff they are not supposed to.
Disarming honest hard working good people is not the answer
to protecting ourselves. Better
screening of people who might have issues might be a good place to start. Good people use guns where they are meant to
be used at firing ranges, to hunt with, and for our protection. The largest deterrent foreign or domestic to
being taken over and our country turned into a dictatorship is the fact that
our population is armed. If you look at
the countries of the world where dictatorships exist, people can’t come and go
as they please, and the only ones with guns are the government, they are not
free. The countries are prisons to its
populations. You do what the government
tells you to do. Too many countries say
you must own property, and have family as security that you will return or you
cannot leave the country.
The most lasting and enduring insurance to our freedom that
our founding fathers gave us was the right to bear arms. The right to own our own weapons for hunting,
recreation and to protect ourselves, and as an ex-servicemen I’ll take it a
step further, to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Nobody said Freedom was easy! It probably has to be hardest form of
government to for a population to endure and maintain over time.
I sincerely hope we get chosen for this privilege of helping secure the
safety of the children near our work. I
would consider it as great of an honor as I did serving to protect my country
when I was in the Army many years ago. I
hope citizens across the country stand up and volunteer to do whatever we can
do to protect our children, elderly and our general good hard working people
from the Evil of others. Again we
outnumber the bad guys by a large margin and enough is enough. It’s time for us to take a stand and say no
more. That doesn't mean we should
attempt to disarm the good guys! I rue
the day some idiot actually tries to forcefully disarm this country.
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