arizona school police officer makes parents mad.

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http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/23596179/2013/10/02/officer-dropping-off-daughter-at-school-asked

un able to copy and paste from my phone but basic jist of article is a police officer in full dress with sidearm was on way to work. Dropped daughter off to school. Some parents saw his gun and must have been blind to the uniform. They complained to principle and principle called police station and asked that officer never come to school in uniform or with gun....is this really the way the nation is going.

police chief asked officer to just let it slide but officer did post some coments on his facebook page.

MY PERSONAL FEELING

seriously this principle could not have stopped this before it started and grew some noids and told those parents this is an officer here to protect...
 
Unfortunately this goes deeper than guns. It is a shame when a few phone calls by parents can cause this. schools have no backbone in dealing with parents and parent have no backbone in dealing with children. (and of course guns are evil)
 
Its a sad day indeed when a uniformed officer is asked not to be seen. If I were the chief, my words would not have been high road. That man has every right to drop his kids off at school. The gun and uniform are just an added bonus.
 
What a disgrace! In light of recent events, why would any parent object to having a uniformed, armed police officer visible at the school?:banghead:

They need to greet this guy with a cup of hot coffee every morning!

You can't Fix Stupid!
 
Personally, I think that police should be treated the same as everyone else in terms of guns.
 
Heck, if I were the officer in question, I'd have a parade of my officer buddies there every morning. You know, all in the name of the safety of the kids.
 
I think this parent or parents are ignorant liberals. And the police chief needs to go. The principal should have stopped it there. If I was either I would have said "if you don't want a uniformed officer there on a normal day dropping his kids off, what are you going to do when something happens at the school. You don't want an officer there, who's going to try to save your kids?" I mean really people.
I think us educated few should go ahead and let these liberals have a world the way they want it and move them to their own little town, with no civilian gun ownership, gun free zones and all. And see how long it is before they start begging to own guns or have people with guns come protect them. I would say no, I don't want to violate your right to not have guns around. I wouldn't want to offend you by having a fug in you pressance.
I just don't understand how liberals can think that a "gun free zone" "no weapons allowed" are going to stop the criminally minded and others from bringing any sort of weapon, be it a pistol, rifle, ax, etc, to a "no weapon zone" and hurting or killing people. A sign doesn't stop people from doing something. A person there with the ability to stop someone, is what it takes.
I would feel much better knowing there was someone at my kids school, be it a police officer, private armed guard or patrol, even a few trained teachers with guns there to stop someone as soon as possible, instead of mybkids and everyone having to wait for a police response.
Politicians get to have armed guards, why don't our kids?
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I think I understand:

When parent is dropping their kid off at school...

Carpenter with tool belt = OK
Electrician with tool belt = OK
Butcher, Baker or Candle Stick maker with the tools of their trade = OK
Uniformed Police Officer with tool belt = NOT OK.

arizona school police officer makes parents mad

Well the solution is simple. The next time these parents need a cop let them call a butcher, baker or candle stick maker.

Just My Take....
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Personally, I think that police should be treated the same as everyone else in terms of guns.

:rolleyes: Jealous much? :rolleyes: Cause if you aren't allowed to pack a gun in a gun free zone, nobody should be allowed. yeah, it is much better to have no guns in school than to allow PO's to tote them there.

Sooner or later these parents will break the law and Johnny Law will be there to introduce himself.
 
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rooter, it isn't jealousy to understand the purpose of the 2nd amendment. I don't see that cops have any sort of better record with firearms than the general law abiding public does. If a cop can bring a gun to school, then the other parents should be allowed to do so as well.
 
Thankfully, I am allowed to drop my kids off at school with a pistol on my hip. Don't even need the uniform. Hell, I can escort them to their classrooms as long as its open carried and be within my rights and within the scope of the law. Other parents don't like it, that is their problem.
 
I think this parent or parents are ignorant liberals.<snip>
I think us educated few should go ahead and let these liberals have a world the way they want it and move them to their own little town, with no civilian gun ownership, gun free zones and all. And see how long it is before they start begging to own guns or have people with guns come protect them. <snip>
I just don't understand how liberals can think that a "gun free zone" "no weapons allowed" are going to stop the criminally minded and others from bringing any sort of weapon, be it a pistol, rifle, ax, etc, to a "no weapon zone" and hurting or killing people
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Whoa.
Hold up for a second there. "Liberal" isn't a pejorative, nor does it indicate an individual who wishes to curtail the constitutional right of an individual to bear arms. Using it thus indicates a lack of political nuance and ignores that threats to the RTKBA (and basic personal freedoms) often come from social conservatives. Look folks, we need to be on the same page here and being purposefully divisive is counterproductive.
 
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Police should get no special treatment. If he's there while on duty for police business, then sure, but if I can't drop my kid off while packing, neither should he.

I didn't used to feel this way, but I see the divide between "Us and Them" growing wider all the time.

I'm sick of it.


Jealous much? Cause if you aren't allowed to pack a gun in a gun free zone, nobody should be allowed. yeah, it is much better to have no guns in school than to allow PO's to tote them there.

Sooner or later these parents will break the law and Johnny Law will be there to introduce himself.

Like all those illegal alien parents dropping off their children in the schools? Where's Johnny Law on that one?
 
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This was also on another forum. As a police officer I have 2 thoughts on this.

1. The people who complain about police presence are usually doing something illegal or thinking about it.
2. The principal claimed he wanted to use this as a teaching moment by inviting the police to the school for a presentation. I hope the officer goes in full uniform with 5 or 6 fellow officers (maybe even bring some tactical officers in full gear) just to give the compaliners a tizzy fit.

That principal better be thankful I'm not the Police Chief there. I would call a judge to see if we could get a 72 hour commital order so he could be psychologically evaluated. I would love to see an officer show up at the school and take the principal to such a facility.
 
Hard to believe this is coming from AZ, one of the most gun friendly states in the country.

Mesa, or at least parts of it, is a Phoenix suburb, that’s now home to a lot of California immigrants. Considering the political climates in they’re former home this incident is not difficult to understand. Be that as it may, they are considered to be a foreign influence and are not representative of most Arizonians. We fervently wish they would go back to where they might feel more comfortable.

For the record; where I live police officers are not only welcome in schools, but in some are assigned to watch them.
 
Shouldn't have been an issue, but I agree with the sentiment that if there is any issue to be had, it is with the double-standard of letting a uniformed officer of the law get away with something that is verboten to me and mine.

As for the comments basically saying, "I hope/wish the police throw it in the complainants' faces," well, all I can say is that is one great way to help ruin any gains to be had in defending the second amendment.
 
Ask those parents if they'd want their kids to see him if there was some nut shooting up the school.


If so, exactly why would that be ok?
 
It has been a long time since my kids were school age, but I would not object to armed cop in uniform dropping of his kids at the school before going on duty. Kids don't need to learn the simplistic lesson "Guns are bad": they need to learn that "Bad guy with gun is bad" and "good guy with gun is good".
 
I can't believe this happened in Arizona. Probably blissninny liberal transplants from California. Where I was an LEO in the Midwest, students and staff at the local high school had no problem at all with me visiting in uniform - I even gave talks to some of the classes. The drug dog, though, was a different story LOL.
 
Cause if you aren't allowed to pack a gun in a gun free zone, nobody should be allowed. .

No...they shouldn't....

we shouldn't have privileged classes in this nation....nor should we have gun free zones


Of course, this is still ridiculous...because these people complained out of irrational fear, and not out of desire for equality
 
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