Gun control is

a school issue

 

The issues surrounding firearms are school issues too! Around Vermont and the United States educational districts are being forced into turning our buildings into militarized bunkers. In a response to conditions totally beyond our control we are having to terrorize our children with school lock down drills, and we are spending tens of thousands of dollars or more to harden our schools.

 

This is happening for only one reason: the number and easy availability of firearms. A school shooting takes much more than a shooter: it takes guns and bullets. It is true that we need to protect ourselves from dangerous people, but we also need to protect ourselves from the surplus of firearms these dangerous people so easily find and use to create their horror.  A school shooter without a firearm is not a school shooter! Do what's right ... visit Gun Sense Vermont today.

 

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Recent activity

Senate Resolution 7 - a cloak of narcissistic paranoia 05/17/2013 (0 comments)

Miscellaneous ed bill H.521 passes out of Senate 05/10/2013 (0 comments)

End of democracy in Vermont? 05/09/2013 (0 comments)

VT Senate ed committee proposes reversal of House and beats up on Vermont decisions 05/07/2013 (1 comment)

VT House opts to respond to Vermonter decisions 05/06/2013 (1 comment)

Tidbits from the outside 05/04/2013 (0 comments)

Join the Conversation: League of Innovative Schools 05/01/2013

Withering frights and Vermont's education finance system, part 2 04/29/2013 (0 comments)

Shumlin failing schools on issue of gun control 04/26/2013 (0 comments)

Withering frights and Vermont's education finance system, part 1 04/23/2013 (0 comments)

The webs we weave - a view from OSSU 04/12/2013 (0 comments)

The webs we weave redux 04/09/2013 (0 comments)

The webs we weave 03/30/2013 (0 comments)

A student responds to Mayor Weinberger's excellent adventure 03/26/2013 (0 comments)

Why are we teaching our children they are less important then firearms? 03/23/2013 (2 comments)

Most recent blurbs

by rama schneider on 03/13/2013
As reported by VT Digger: Vermont Senate Economic Development Committee has voted 3-2 against a statewide child care worker unionization bill. While there does appear to be pressure to leave this as the final word as far as the Senate is concerned - sometimes zombies really do exist.
by rama schneider on 01/16/2013
VT State Board of ED yesterday finally approved the Village School of North Bennington's independent school application with a 5 to 2 vote.
by rama schneider on 01/09/2013
VT State Board of Ed will ostensibly be finally deciding whether or not to approve the independent school application submitted by the Village School of North Bennington at the VSBE's Jan 15 meeting in Montpelier - see the post "Village School of North Bennington on the horizon?" (1/4/13) for more.
by rama schneider on 12/27/2012
North Bennington's vote to close their public school and re-open it as a private independent school up for re-vote on January 3rd ... see Things we're following for more information.
by rama schneider on 10/24/2012
North Bennington voted in favor of authorizing the closing of their public elementary school and leasing the building to the proposed independent Village School of North Bennington. Vote for closing was 294 to 268; for lease it was 304 to 257. See Things we're following for more.
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