Santa Fe School Shooting Survivors Plead With Texas Gov. Greg Abbott … For More Armed Security

Much like the Parkland school shooting survivors, many students who went through the horrific tragedy at a Santa Fe High School are becoming activists in their own right.

UNLIKE the Parkland activists, their main message isn’t “gun control.”

They want more armed guards at schools, TOTALLY shattering the “if you went what we’ve been through, you’d want to get rid of guns, too” argument.

According to Daily Mail:

Survivors of last week’s shooting at a high school near Houston told gripping stories of dodging bullets, hiding from the attacker and seeing classmates get shot as they pleaded with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday for more armed security to keep campuses safe.

Good. Remember what happened when a shooter targeted Dixon High School?

Everyone survived.

Why? Because a good guy had a gun. 

Several of the families who met with him Thursday said they didn’t want to talk about gun restrictions or the politics of gun rights.

‘This is not a gun thing,’ said Jay Horn, whose son was injured in the shooting and hospitalized. ‘Evil’s going to happen with anything.’

I completely agree.

Abbott has signed bills in recent years that reduce the cost and training needed for a handgun license and expanded where handguns can be legally carried. During a National Rifle Association meeting earlier this month, Abbott said the violence problem isn’t caused by guns but by ‘hearts without God.’

Of course, the liberal media is making this out to be something AWFUL.

It’s not. It’s the truth. Evil people will commit evil acts… with or without a gun.

This week’s meetings included representatives of both gun rights and gun control groups. However, Alice Tripp, legislative director of the Texas Rifle Association, an affiliate of the NRA, said her group found ‘no common ground’ on gun restrictions and would be cautious of anything that would deny access to buy or own guns.

Thursday’s meeting included more than 30 students, families and staff members from Santa Fe High School. Scot Rice described hiding behind a parking lot garbage bin, hearing bullets whiz by as he could see his wife Flo, a substitute teacher, pretending to be dead after getting shot. She survived. A police officer was able to carry her to safety.

Also attending were two survivors of the November church shooting in rural Sutherland Springs, Texas, that left more than two dozen people dead. Stephen Willeford, the church neighbor and former NRA gun instructor who was hailed as a hero for grabbing a rifle and firing back at the attacker, also was at the meeting.

ANOTHER GOOD GUY WITH A GUN.

How is this not clear?

Several students and parents said schools need more armed security guards and armed teachers to prevent attacks. Texas law allows school districts to arm teachers who pass training courses and they must keep their guns concealed. Others debated whether schools should have metal detectors.

‘Arming teachers, and not knowing who is armed, that is what we need,’ said Grace Johnson, a Santa Fe senior who hid in a band room attic during the attack. ‘I cannot tell you how much safer I feel in public with my father having a gun on him.’

Amen.