Proposals to arm teachers and other staffers to better secure schools against mass shooters are worthwhile, just as arming pilots was following 9/11, said Chad Robichaux on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight in an interview with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Robichaux is a former Special Agent with the U.S. Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS). His work with the FAMS included the development and implementation of the Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) program — including training the first wave of armed pilots following 9/11 — after the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which screened, trained, and armed pilots.
Just as arming pilots following 9/11 has been successful in deterring hijackings and other terrorist operations, said Robichaux, so would arming teachers and school staffers be.
Armed personnel on site offer a quicker response time than law enforcement can typically provide to mass shooting scenarios, said Robichaux: “These shootings go down at these schools in an average of three minutes, and it takes up to eight minutes for law enforcement to respond, and that’s eight minutes too late.”
Left-wing resistance to defending school children via the arming of teachers and school staff resembles similar hostility toward the FFDO program’s arming of pilots, said Robichaux.
“There was a lot of pushback [to the FFDO],” said Robichaux. “People said, ‘You can’t trust these pilots with firearms.’ Well, you trust them flying your airplane. So now people are saying, ‘We can’t trust teachers with firearms.’ "
"We trust them with our children.”
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Ok so can someone show me the numbers of hijackers that were stopped by an armed pilot?
ReplyDeleteThe democrats have ALWAYS stood in the way of school safety.
ReplyDeleteOver 20 years ago we had to over come significant democrat bureaucratic and democrat parental resistance to common sense measures such as ID cards for school staff, visitor sign in's, identifying oneself to the school record in order to pick up a child, single point of access to a school and video cameras.
Today this is not only the norm, it is the expectation.
Every incident of a mass shooting ends with the shooter being brought down or killed with someone else with a gun. Arming pilots (teachers/school staff) locked cabin doors (school entrances) air marshals (armed LEO's in schools) TSA screenings (background checks and other identifiers) have kept the almost 632 million people that fly domestically on our airplanes each year safe from guns. The TSA collected Three Billion, Eight hundred and twenty two Million, Six hundred and two Thousand dollars in fees in 2017 keeping our flights safe. What is it worth to protect our kids at school? Oh, and not all pilots carry and not all flights have air marshals. The deterrent is no one knows when they get on a plane who is carrying. Think about it next time you go to an airport. Or a school.
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ReplyDeleteTo answer your question, no one knows for sure because there were no more incidents like 9/11 since they were armed. Think about that for a minute.....moron!!
Stop too much common sense!
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