Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Riffle Association, recommends that we have an armed guard in every school in America. According to the Utah Public School Directory (http://utah.educationbug.org/public-schools/) there are 899 public schools in Utah.
If an armed guard were placed in each and paid the modest salary of $40,000 a year and with about $30,000 for administration, training, supervision, equipment and support that would be an added expense of 63 million dollars a year to our State budget. (Of course this assumes that one guard per school would be effective in preventing mass shootings and not in and off itself cause additional problems).
There are approximately 1,115,000 tax paying adults in Utah. So it would cost us each tax paying adult about $56 a year and necessarily require a tax increase.
Extrapolating across the nation there would be approximately 10,000 public schools. So to put a guard in each would cost roughly $700 million per year. Given that the cost of living is much greater in other states it would probably costs about $90 per tax payer.
However, conservatives and republicans do not want to raise taxes. Many conservatives do not want to limit gun ownership in any manner.
According to the NRA, (http://www.statisticbrain.com/national-rifle-association-nra-statistics/) it has 4.3 million members. Hence if they bore the burden of this new police force it would only cost each member $162 per year. Problem solved and it is a small price for the cost of freedom and gun liberty.
(And no, this is not necessarily my opinion, just food for thought. And yes please critique my rough calculations. They are, like me, probably very fiscally conservative).
Comment 1: Loren M. Lambert - Some believe in the divine nature of men yet cannot conceive of any world except one in which everyone is bristling with as many instrumentalities of death as our means allow. Yet by grasping unrestrained for ever more security, it always seems to more assiduously elude us.
That is not to infer that somehow the absence of arms will pacify our psychopaths and criminals. No, we must be prepared, but there is a balance to be struck. The benefit of living in as disarmed a community as our natures will allows, is not so that we live in ignorance and at the mercy of the wolves who are ever present at our doors; but is with the humble understanding that even the best of us-- in moments of heightened stress, extreme need or justifiable anger; and even the meekest of us—beleaguered by illness, age and ill treatment, are more able to live up to our better natures with our hands at some distance from the triggers of death and with our minds enlightened by environments that mirror the aspirations of our hearts.
Comment 2: Loren M. Lambert - I just think we should be vigilant but not paranoid and that should be reflected in our balance between reasonable gun control and the second amendment.
Loren M. Lambert © December 21, 2012
If an armed guard were placed in each and paid the modest salary of $40,000 a year and with about $30,000 for administration, training, supervision, equipment and support that would be an added expense of 63 million dollars a year to our State budget. (Of course this assumes that one guard per school would be effective in preventing mass shootings and not in and off itself cause additional problems).
There are approximately 1,115,000 tax paying adults in Utah. So it would cost us each tax paying adult about $56 a year and necessarily require a tax increase.
Extrapolating across the nation there would be approximately 10,000 public schools. So to put a guard in each would cost roughly $700 million per year. Given that the cost of living is much greater in other states it would probably costs about $90 per tax payer.
However, conservatives and republicans do not want to raise taxes. Many conservatives do not want to limit gun ownership in any manner.
According to the NRA, (http://www.statisticbrain.com/national-rifle-association-nra-statistics/) it has 4.3 million members. Hence if they bore the burden of this new police force it would only cost each member $162 per year. Problem solved and it is a small price for the cost of freedom and gun liberty.
(And no, this is not necessarily my opinion, just food for thought. And yes please critique my rough calculations. They are, like me, probably very fiscally conservative).
Comment 1: Loren M. Lambert - Some believe in the divine nature of men yet cannot conceive of any world except one in which everyone is bristling with as many instrumentalities of death as our means allow. Yet by grasping unrestrained for ever more security, it always seems to more assiduously elude us.
That is not to infer that somehow the absence of arms will pacify our psychopaths and criminals. No, we must be prepared, but there is a balance to be struck. The benefit of living in as disarmed a community as our natures will allows, is not so that we live in ignorance and at the mercy of the wolves who are ever present at our doors; but is with the humble understanding that even the best of us-- in moments of heightened stress, extreme need or justifiable anger; and even the meekest of us—beleaguered by illness, age and ill treatment, are more able to live up to our better natures with our hands at some distance from the triggers of death and with our minds enlightened by environments that mirror the aspirations of our hearts.
Comment 2: Loren M. Lambert - I just think we should be vigilant but not paranoid and that should be reflected in our balance between reasonable gun control and the second amendment.
Loren M. Lambert © December 21, 2012
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