Oath Keepers Plan To Station Volunteer Armed Guards Outside Schools

[DonViejo]

By Allegra Kirkland | February 26, 2018 4:13 pm

Imagine if every school campus in the United States had its own volunteer security officer: a former police officer or military veteran equipped with an assault rifle. That’s the dream of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.

In the wake of the February 14 massacre at a Parkland, Florida high school, Rhodes is calling on members of his far-right anti-government militia group to serve as unpaid and unaccountable armed school guards — whether teachers and students like the idea or not.

One Indiana Oath Keeper has already deployed to a local school, even though the school district says there’s no need for him to be there.

Rhodes wants the military and police veterans who make up Oath Keepers’ membership to volunteer for unpaid, rotating shifts at schools of all levels, and colleges, throughout the country. He and two other representatives of the fringe militia community will hold a webinar Monday night where they plan to encourage Oath Keepers to station themselves at schools “to protect the children against mass murder, and to help train the teachers and staff.”

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[ret5hd]

1. Man, I can see absolutely NO potential problems here!!!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Well,knew these A---Holes would

come out of their Hiddy-Holes. Just what could go wrong with that idea.

[Sophia4]

3. THIS IDEA is going to mean that PTAs across the country begin to move

to outlaw guns within the perimeters of schools.

What a goofy idea!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. The schools which do not want these gun crazies outside their schools should have

them arrested for trespassing.

[Nevernose]

22. Not illegal if they stand across the street

We have a religious nut job that sets up a microphone and speaker across the street and scream about all the different ways they’re going to hell. At this point, even the religious kids that agree with him think he’s a giant asshole, and they’re not afraid to let him know.

And Oathkeepers? They couldn’t hold their composure for ten minutes around my high school kids.

[hatrack]

5. Yay, Meal Team 6 will protect us now . . .

[onethatcares]

6. Imagine if you will,

a school where several POC showed up with firearms to protect the children.

They could be called the "Deputies " or something like that.

How do you think that would work?

[ret5hd]

8. Image here: (oh yeah, this would go over well)

[onethatcares]

15. that would be the justification

to roll out the military hardware the civilian police have.

but there would be studies and commissions that would never be completed by congress.

[xmas74]

31. I'd feel safer for myself and my kid with this picture

Than an Oath keeper.

[ret5hd]

35. As would I.

[ProudLib72]

21. Personally, I would feel a lot safer protected by POC

even though I'm a white male.

Unless it's someone like Clarke.

[Downtown Hound]

7. Oh God, can these jackoffs seriously just go away and DIE?

We don't need you wannabe Rambos playing po po. We need gun control.

[HopeAgain]

9. Oh fuck no...

Let's not traumatize our kids more with these mutants.

[bettyellen]

10. Oh great, more armed n angry white men who mirror most shooters political views. Thats the ticket!

[SharonClark]

26. Exactly.

[bettyellen]

33. I can imagine them hitting on the girls and shooting darker skinned kids. Thats going to

be their big “help” to students.

[haele]

11. Why? So they can ensure that all weapons brought into a school are in good working order?

As someone in another thread said, the kids bringing weapons into a school to "deal" with those they think have persecuted them, or didn't recognize their greatness will just go to the malls or other places kids gather to get even and gain that sense of ultimate power over their environment that they crave if they don't think they can take on easy targets.

It's not adults that go into the schools shooting. It's other children, whether the people bringing the guns in are physically teenagers or in their early 20's.
They're still emotionally children living in fantasy worlds.
Sort of like the Oafkeepers themselves.
These school shooters are dangerous children that American society ignores because too many adults want to live in a good, small town Pleasantville existence where everyone knew their places, and these young men (and girls) are always able to function within the lower range of the acceptable "normal teenage angst" stereotype.
They aren't really monsters in their communities - until they pick up that easily accessible firearm and go hunting human beings.

Haele

[lunasun]

12. Yes imagine some dystopian future where this is real...oh wait

[ecstatic]

13. Great. More armed George Zimmerman types

who won't take no for an answer. What could possibly go wrong?

[Afromania]

14. I think we all know what will go wrong.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. Doesn't Florida law say, "If you fear him, you can kill him"?

That seems to fit in with the Oath Keepers' state of mind.

Like most hard-line conservatives, they say their only vow is to "protect the Constitution" -- as they interpret it, of course. I imagine there are damned few who have even read the document, much less understand its history and purpose.

I could be wrong. Maybe the only way to stop a crazy guy with an AR-15 is another crazy guy with an AR-15.

[jpak]

16. Really nutty gun nuts - what could go wrong?

[Demsrule86]

17. No. These people are dangerous.

[procon]

18. States like Florida that have weak gun laws get visited by anti government

extremist groups like the Oath Keepers, and until they do something really bad, the community is stuck with them. Those gun fanatics aren't thinking -- and don't care -- about what they are doing to all the school kids who will see a bunch of scary armed men surrounding their schools.

[msongs]

20. loitering. vagrancy. keep moving, wacko nt

[maxrandb]

23. The 101ST Chairborne

Strikes again

[maxrandb]

24. Hope none of them are black

We know how that would end.

[Solly Mack]

25. Idiots

[Generic Brad]

27. Shitty deadbeat dads will protect the kids?

One more empty promise from a group of phony absentee fathers.

[Skittles]

28. gun humping MORONS

[hunter]

29. These clowns don't know what high school kids are capable of.

It's gonna suck to be an oath keeper when those pictures are posted on social media.

Let the mocking and scolding commence.

[xmas74]

30. I don't want them anywhere near my child

Or her school.

[Wounded Bear]

32. Just saw a FB post about that...

or at least it sounds the same. Guy claimed to be a military vet who's willing to stand guard over a school. All they have to do is ask.

I guess they want the plan to be mandatory, no permission necessary.

[OhioBlue]

34. Oh hell NO! These racist nutjobs shouldn't have guns to begin with. n/t

[MineralMan]

36. Parents with children in those schools should

gang call 911 every day those gun-fetishists are near the school. "Man with a gun" reports coming in every morning to 911 in large numbers. The cops will get tired of it, and there's nothing they can do to stop the calls. They'll kick the assholes out of the area soon enough.

However, the Oafkeepers aren't likely to stick around very long. They just want to get their photo taken so they can post in on their Facebook Page. Then, they'll go a way. Standing guard on a school is really boring, tedious work, so they'll head on home.

Buncha morons!