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Hoitsy Toitsy Montgomery County Thinks We’re Better Than That.

UD‘s county still hasn’t transformed its public schools into armed camps, with metal detectors and police everywhere, cuz it thinks it’s too classy for that sort of thing. Everybody else is doing it, but Bethesda? Chevy Chase? These are among America’s most affluent, most educated, blahblahblah…

So change has to come from the parents, not the deluded county council, which seems prepared to see students die on the altar of its self-regard.

A petition, in the wake of gun possession and gun fight incidents in just the last two weeks, is now circulating.

Margaret Soltan, February 27, 2025 9:39AM
Posted in: guns

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2 Responses to “Hoitsy Toitsy Montgomery County Thinks We’re Better Than That.”

  1. Matt McKeon Says:

    Having gone through “shooter drills” at my school, I’m going to say that fortifying the school is a playground for scam artists selling all sorts of things. The message is, “hey it may not work, but it will look like you were doing something if things go south” I mean, that’s openly what the sales people say.

    The answer isn’t trying to create a maginot line in America’s schools, its gun control. After all, Parkland and Ulvade had locked doors and armed guards.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    I hear you. But gun control ain’t happening, and ain’t gonna happen. Not any time soon. Guns are everywhere, and parents aren’t able to control their kids’ access to them. Drills, lectures encouraging students to report gun sightings, arrests, technology, police — they may not be a total solution, but they have to be better than not doing them.

    I think probably the most effective security lies in high profile trials and then long sentences of the sort the Crumbleys got – guns are such routine household appliances now that people don’t take them seriously. People take ten years in jail seriously.

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