IL Gov. Quinn can't sign CCW bill, BUT signed this:

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07/01/13 - Governor Quinn Signs New School Safety Law

Governor’s Public Safety Priority Requires School Districts to Include a Safety Drill for the Possibility of a Shooting Incident


CHICAGO – Governor Pat Quinn today signed a new law that requires all Illinois schools to hold active safety drills with local law enforcement to ensure they are as prepared as possible in the event of a shooting incident. Today's action is part of the governor's agenda to improve public safety in Illinois.
 
Gov. Quinn is a --deleted-- that has failed to do anything substantial to solve any of this sorry state's enormous problems. But he has no problem pandering to the left wing anti-gun Chicago population so that he can achieve his real goal of getting re-elected. It appears certain now that he will use his amendatory veto power and make changes to the just passed concealed carry bill. This might better position him in his primary fight against Princess Lisa Madigan (who is also the Attorney General, and more importantly, the daughter of Speaker of the House Mike Madigan who truly controls this state). Since the bill passed with veto-proof majorities in both houses of the legislature, I am hopeful that his changes to the bill, making it more restrictive of course, will be overridden and we will finally have a concealed carry law in Illinois. The bill is far from perfect, having far too many places where concealed carry will not be allowed (notably on public transportation, which seriously degrades the bill's usefulness for Chicago residents reliant on buses and subway trains), but at least it will allow for "must issue" concealed carry licenses. For those of you outside of IL, the most important thing you can do is to help make sure the House of Representatives stays in Republican's hands. Otherwise Obama will be able to pass Federal legislation that could override all state's concealed carry laws during his final two years in office. It looks like we will all have to tolerate gay marriage, illegal immigrant amnesty, and a weakened military, but at least we need to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights.
 
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Just part and parcel of the gun banners agenda to keep the extraordinarily rare school shootings in the news and use fear to make the people THINK they are common and that the politicians are doing something about it. Of course this meaningless drill is just a waste of time and money but it appeals to our intellect challenged governors base.
 
Nothing wrong with that. We do tornado drills, fire drills, bomb threat drills, and bus evacuation drills on a regualr basis too. None of those things ever actually happened in my 30 years teaching, or the 17 years of schooling before I started teaching. But those things do happen, ask the kids in Oklahoma tornadoes. Nothing wrong with being prepared. I'd say Illinois is just now catching up with the rest of the country.

Our local SWAT team rotates around to each of our schools each year conducting a training excercise for such events. They do so to be familiar with each building. They are done on Saturdays with volunteer students and teachers. It is very realistic and educational.

We used to practice for an armed intruder about 3-4 times a year and the kids never knew. The announcement was "Teachers, the Fire Marshal is conduction an inspection of the building, disregard fire alarms and keep all students in your rooms until further notice". There was a slightly different version of that if it were the real thing, such as asking a fictious janitor to report to the office at the end of the announcement.

There was an elborate and highly secret plan on how and where to move students in the event of a real threat. In bomb threat drills we always took kids to the football stadium. We would never do that in a real attack, because it would be easy to create a diversion at the school then hit the stadium for greater effect. Only a handful of people who had a reason to know were aware of the real plan.
 
We have active shooter drills where I work. I really do not see a problem with something that may save children's lives. Law enforcement have teams that can come in and teach the latest response to an active shooter.

Is it by its self the best way to protect children? I don't think so, but it is surely better than nothing at all.
 
Good idea to have drills for anything, really. As long as the stuff is actually useful.
I started school at the very tail end of the cold war, and got told to 'quiet down' when I questioned the nuclear bomb drill.
Really, how bad is advice when when a third grader says "We just saw that thing strip cinderblocks and burn people's shadows into the road, and we're supposed to hide under our desks?"
 
Illinois has to be the only state where the "Old Governor's Home" and the State Penitentiary are one in the same. What will this governors scandal be, bribery, corruption, conspiracy to defraud the State, or all of the above? :what:
 
My daughter's preschool has active shooter drills, and has had them since before Columbine. The kids don't know it is a shooter drill, it is just a drill they practice occasionally.

In my opinion any sort of emergency drill is better than not planning for an emergency.
 
What does this drill teach that will actually help save lives?
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They seem pretty adamant on not allowing folks to defend themselves so planning where to run and hide is better than absolutely nothing. If nothing more the police will have an idea where everyone should be when they show up 5 min late.
 
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