We had a great discussion last night on ‘Live From the Newsroom’ as we focused on gun violence and school security in the wake of the massacre in Connecticut.
My thanks for Lawrence O’Shay, the executive director of the Delaware County Intermediate Unit, and Shira Goodman, the new boss of CeaseFirePa.
I’d also like to thank readers for their outpouring of questions for the panel all day yesterday. I put many of them to our panel.
If you missed the show you can catch the replay here.
Several readers indicated their belief that the panel was stacked with anti-gun proponents. I’d like to think that I’m pretty middle of the road on this important issue. And I had my lead columnist, Gil Spencer, an avowed Second Amendment and gun rights activist, on hand.
One question submitted by a reader struck me as being especially pertinent. He wondered why his place of employment, a steel mill, had an armed guard, but his child’s school did not.
O’Shay went over last weekend’s meeting with county officials in the wake of the Connecticut tragedy, and ensuring that all Delaware County schools were reviewing their security policies.
At the end of the show, when I asked him during our usual Rapid Fire segment to identify one aspect of school security that readers do not know, he pointed out one that they do not and will not know. That would be the actual plans in place for what would happen should the unthinkable ever happen herein Delco.
And Goodman consistently indicated her group did not want to take away everyone’s guns, only illegal guns.
Me? I still want to know why any private citizen needs a weapon such as that semiautomatic AR-15 rifle used in the Connecticut rampage.
Yesterday President Obama said he would put together a panel headed by Vice President Joe Biden to address gun issues in the nation.
If it has done nothing else, the tragedy in Connecticut has caused everyone, from Delaware County to Washington, D.C.., to talk about this issue.
If there is anything good to come out of this, maybe that’s it.
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