Tyrus Quotes

I personally would prefer to send my child to a school where the teachers are armed … and prepared.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.

We need to look for ways to secure our schools, single-point of entrance.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment.

When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

One of the really painful things we have found out about weapons carried by our kids is that they think they have to bring in the weapons to protect themselves.

It shouldn't be just the rich and the powerful that send their children to schools where there is armed security. Parents shouldn't be holding their breath because there's no security in schools they're sending their children to.

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. You see, God is not against building walls!

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

If - heaven forbid - a shooter did come into my class, I wouldn't want to have to worry about getting caught in a crossfire.

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.

My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.