If Only 5% of the Ducks Were Armed...

Did you know that 7% of our entire U. S. population are military veterans?

Yep, that works out to more than 19,000,000 ex-military.  Surprised?  

And each one of them is trained in the use of firearms, of all types, of course.  Better than any cop who's just graduated after six months from any academy.  Our ex-military were trained enough to protect you and me from all enemies foreign and domestic while they were serving in uniform.  And trained enough to remember how to protect themselves and their families now that they're back home.  Remember, they have kids too!  And those kids attend schools.  The very same schools they would all love to help defend, most likely. 

And that's what I'm suggesting:  

Hire our military veterans to provide School Resource Officers, all across the fruited plain. 

Further, did you know that as of 2020 fully 13.34% of our population between the ages of 55 - 64 are retired military?  They've served at least 20 years in uniform and are now ready for a second career.  

And if that statistic surprises you, consider that 43.92% of our folks 75 and over are retired military!  Almost half of them!  And on top of that remarkable statistic, more than 200,000 veterans depart our military service every year!  Clearly, we have a lot of well trained ex-military out there, who've all taken an oath to protect us from all enemies foreign and domestic.  They've done so in the past, and I'm betting many of them could use a good part-time job now, doing so once again.

And yet, those on the Left are still bleating today about the fact we cannot protect our school children from mass shooters.  And the hard-core activists among them are telling us that the only way we can protect them is to pass a whole slew of anti-gun laws.  Even though there's been no evidence any of those laws they propose would have prevented this recent tragedy in Texas - or any other mass shooting in memory - for that matter.   

They won't relent, fellow Patriots.  There's already 107 anti-gun laws on the books here in Taxifornia, as an example.  And even though none of them would have prevented the killing in Uvalde, TX, our Boy Guv (aka "Hairgod"), just called for some new ones.  Like always.  Remember, if we get weaker, he gets stronger.  Let's see here; the Sheriff of Lost Angeles County just advised his citizens to take off all their jewelry if they have to shop downtown.  And take Ubers instead of driving their Bentleys to Rodeo Drive so they don't get carjacked and robbed of their Rolexes.  Like happens there every single day.

And the Sheriff of Lost Angeles County is a...Democrat.

They refuse to prosecute criminals and refuse to let us protect ourselves from the crimes they commit.  Have they got s**t for brains?

But to Hell with the guy and his Bentley.  I'm advocating for our schoolchildren.  I know that a big percentage of our 75 year-olds are still spry.  They go for long walks and play golf and tennis.  So the half of them who are retired military would be the ideal population from which to draw our new School Resource Officers, I'm thinking...

What do you think?

Cops cost at least $150k a year to hire and train and field.  And candidates for open cop jobs are not knocking down the doors these days.  Maybe that whole "Defund the Police" meme the Left adopted over the past couple of years has backfired.  Cops are leaving the Big Blue cities in droves, and few are lining up to replace them.  So assigning a sworn, armed officer to every single one of our more than 140,000 schools isn't likely to happen anytime soon.  

But a yuuuuge chunk of them could be protected by a trained, armed veteran.  Like me.  Who would cost a whole lot less than $150,000 a year.  Maybe a couple or three of them serving at minimum wage, or even working gratis, patrolling each of your local schools, each packing heat, with that fact widely publicized, and each of them just waiting for the next potential mass-shooter they could drop like a bad habit, would be just the ticket...

Remember, when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.  And the potential mass-shooter would need to know that...

And as I head out that proverbial Digital Door, I'd like to offer this bit of sage advice:  The very shortest measurable unit of time used to be the period between the street light changing in downtown Manhattan and the cab driver behind you honking his horn.  

Now?  Now it's the period of time between the sound of the shots dying out in some school somewhere, and your average hard-core Leftist politician, like Joe O'Biden, sticking his face in front of the nearest microphone and crying out for new and improved gun control laws.  It always happens.  It happened last time.  It happened this time.  It'll happen next time.  

And the next.

Until we finally decide to "harden" our schools.  To make them more impregnable.  So crazed idiots cannot gain entrance in the first place.  And until we invest the time, money, effort and energy to find and treat those so sick they'd be willing to shoot little kids, we'll not fix this problem.  So they're out there.  And schools are not "hardened."  And the next tragedy is just waiting to happen...  

But for those "hardened" schools where the potential mass-shooters would have to choose the front door, I suggest we place a sign on the lawn saying: 

"Our teachers and staff are armed and are to be considered dangerous.  Enter at own risk." 

Do you think a crazed potential mass shooter will enter a place where there's a chance he'll get dropped like so much dirty laundry, before he can do his nefarious deeds?  No, I don't think so.  He'll want to take a few innocent lives with him.  Just like the guy did yesterday.  So he'll pick a softer target.  Like a local theater.  Or stadium.  Or supermarket.  We need to help them make that decision... 

Give up, Hard Core Left.  Stop resisting!  You kept us from putting armed security guards in our schools the last time a Bill was up for a vote in the Senate.  In fact you used that racist filibuster to do so (Google it).  Let us put trained security forces in every single school in America right now.  They're available.  They could be trained in a few days.  They have a dog in the hunt.  And they're guaranteed to cost less that the $40 Billion Dollars our Gubmint just shipped off to Ukraine.  Plus, they're guaranteed to save lives.  Large...and small!  

So think about it, America...

...If only 5% of the ducks were armed, do you think anyone would go duck hunting?