By: Pat Manley

Pat Manley
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:41:06 +0000

I’m open to any reasonable long term solution, but the recent shooting in Florida isn’t the first, nor will it be the last, if we do not provide immediate and clear protection for our children

We protect OSU football games, government offices, banks, grocery stores and money transported in armored trucks, yet we turn our backs on children in schools. This is not a gun problem, nor an NRA problem. It is a security problem. The system failed over and over again, with Florida’s failures beginning when the shooter was nine years old and continuing with trained Sheriff’s deputies failing to do their job. The system failed and it will continue to do so within government bureaucracies. It always does.

I support protecting every school with trained and vetted adults. I welcome law enforcement, veterans, teachers and staff to participate in this common sense approach. The long term solutions may take a generation more more to come to fruition. Hopefully one day the need to have armed security in schools goes away. In the meantime, take politics out of this and implement the known means of protection we have used for decades.

Pat Manley
Parent and Candidate for U.S. Congress, Ohio District 12