Last week’s school shooting in Wisconsin has my dandruff stirred up.
If you can’t feel safe in sending your kid to a Christian school, where can you send them and be safe — outside of keeping them at home for homeschooling?
This travesty makes 84 school shootings this year in the USA, higher than any year accounted for.
Of the 84 this year, 27 were on college campuses, and 56 were at K-12 schools, leaving 38 dead and at least 115 wounded.
This debacle left 3 deceased — a teacher and a student, plus the self-inflicted death of the suspect, who was a 15-year-old student.
As of this writing last week, two more students were in critical condition and two were in stable condition in a local hospital.
From 2001 to 2022, there were 1,375 school shootings at public and private elementary and secondary schools in the USA, resulting in 515 deaths and 1,161 injuries.
To say we have an epidemic here in these fruited plains is an understatement.
After putting my 9-year-old daughter off for class last Tuesday morning. I stopped and spoke to the one lone law officer, a deputy sheriff who patrols and directs traffic out at Salem School, a Christian-based school adjacent to Salem Baptist Church.
He agreed there needs to be a security checkpoint for every student to go through, and that all backpacks and bags should be searched, and every student who steps on school grounds should be body searched.
He said I was preaching to the choir. Two years ago he went to our county school board and told them the same thing.
Nothing has been done since, but at least no blood will be on his hands if such a disaster occurs here at our little Christian school.
The Good Book warned us that in these last days this would happen. It said many would give heed to seducing spirits and embrace doctrines of devils. (1 Tim. 4:1)
As I dropped my daughter off, I told her I was covering her with prayer. That was all I could do.
I wish I could do more.
The sheriff, speaking after the Wisconsin shooting, emphasizes there is no reason for these terrible shootings to happen.
If you see something or detect something, say something.
I agree, but again like I told our sheriff deputy, we need a security check point on every campus.
I fly all over this world, going abroad supporting our troops, and I have never boarded a flight after entering an airport here in America or any other airport abroad without being run through a security check.
I have to empty all my pockets, placing all contents on a conveyor belt, take my belt off, remove my shoes, and run all of it plus my carry-on baggage through an X-ray apparatus.
Then I go stand with my hands over my head in a body X-ray booth, and then get patted down by a security officer before being allowed to board the jet.
If the authorities at Homeland Security are that strict and thorough, how much more should we be for the wellbeing and safety of our children in these private and public schools?
Come on, school boards, wake up and smell the coffee. Spend a few bucks and install up-to-date security checks and equipment.
What happened in Madison can happen at your school.
It’s not going to get any better as we continue on to the coming of Christ.
God bless you and God bless America.
