Elementary school locked down after open-carry dad keeps on showing up with gun

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. The gun owner's motives are unknown

That's reason enough for a lockdown.

Maybe he just wants to "exercise his Second Amendment rights," or perhaps it's something more sinister -- he doesn't like what a certain teacher is teaching his child, he holds the principal responsible for "taking God out of the classroom," or maybe he feels threatened by the security guard's presence and chooses to exercise "stand your ground."

The point is that guns serve one purpose -- to kill. Even if the claim is made that the presence of a gun serves as a deterrent to others' actions, the threat is the same -- "Do what I want you to or I will kill you."

The difference between a defensive weapon and an offensive weapon is the thought you have in your mind when you pull the trigger.

A school is a place of learning. What the students are learning when the school goes on lockdown because of the armed individual's presence is "we will protect you from this possibly dangerous person." To do otherwise would open the school up to criticism that it's not doing enough to protect its students.