{"id":83210,"date":"2022-08-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83210"},"modified":"2022-08-28T07:40:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T12:40:32","slug":"data-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83210","title":{"rendered":"Data Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The school district in rural Spirit Lake, Minnesota is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keyc.com\/2022\/08\/25\/spirit-lake-school-district-arm-staff-members\/\"> going to have armed staff on premises  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really our obligation and duty to do whatever we can to protect them. And we talk about school shootings, and you have an active shooter, a killer, in your building, the number one way to save lives is to address the killer immediately,\u201d Spirit Lake Community School District Superintendent David Smith said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This being Minnesota, they are doing with an extra special bureaucratic twist; they are selecting (secretly, and anonymously) 10 staffers, and putting them through some extra training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is way better than nothing; merely knowing that the school is not a \u201cgun free zone\u201c will go a long way toward detering any potential nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This being Minnesota, again, there will be dissent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI believe there are better ways to go about it, and all kinds of security measures that can take place as opposed to adding more guns into a school building,\u201d said Harold Prior, a Spirit Lake resident and former school administrator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I always want to delve into the vast self-defense experience of people like Mr. Prior and ask them what they think is \u201cbetter ways\u201d.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I will take this &#8211; to my knowledge, the first school district in Minnesota to openly lose the \u201cgun free zone\u201c label &#8211; is at least a move in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school district in rural Spirit Lake, Minnesota is going to have armed staff on premises \u201cIt\u2019s really our obligation and duty to do whatever we can to protect them. And we talk about school shootings, and you have an active shooter, a killer, in your building, the number one way to save lives is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83217,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83210\/revisions\/83217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}