Hopefully Gov McDonnell has sobered up by now. Or, maybe today he'll want to discuss giving all VA elementary school students Kevlar school uniforms. There is one, long overdue discussion that needs to happen. We need sensible gun policy. We don't need to waste any more time with politician's inane, self-serving avoidance tactics.

Time for the Governor to go piss up a rope. Does this guy seriously think he is a future Presidential contender? At best he might have a future as a television media news reader since when expressing his own genuine thoughts he only manages to hang himself over and over again. Thank goodness he is limited to one term as Governor in Virginia.

I could not believe the governor would say this. How many children will be killed in the crossfire? How many children will be killed by a teacher's gun mistakenly placed within reach of the class? How many children will be killed by a mistaken perception of danger by a teacher? Don't we have enough insanity in Virginia's gun laws? Didn't the legislature and the governor do enough by opening the floodgates of the gun laws earlier this year? Maybe the governor should actually take his self-proclaimed title "pro-life" and actually recognize that gun control is a pro-life issue: http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/gun-control-pro-life-issue.

This is getting ridiculous!!! As a former teacher, there is no way I would have wanted to work in a building, knowing that anyone in the administration was armed.

I ask the governor, why not consider working with the federal government to find ways to get assault weapons, etc. out of the hands of people who intend to ,misuse them? Why not work on bringing our mental health system into the 21st century? Last but not least, why not remember the adage, if you don't know what to say, don't say anything?

Interesting that the gun community believes that more guns will keep us safe...using that logic, I guess we should be the safest nation in the world.

Believe a valid idea to explore, one well trained teacher, such as we have in airplanes , ( Pilot, Crew .? ), and other places , could possibly stop such horrible actions. The police can never get there in time to stop the massacre until too late, and once they arrive the sicko kills himself . When faced with an armed teacher, or guard, might kill himself sooner..?/ Best solution, stop these very ill people from even getting there, they usually leave signs of their pending breakdown. much earlier Guns have nothing to do with it.... Maybe we should consider banning auto's also..??..kill about 40,000 a year on our highways..???

It wouldn't bother me to have police officers assigned to schools...they are professionals. A trained teacher would probably due more harm than good. Comparing an instrument that has only one purpose, that is, to kill (and you to clay pigeons) to transportation accidents? Really? Way too much NRA literature being read. I'm not against having guns to protect one's residence..but anyone who doesn't think we've gone way overboard w/automatic rifles and armor piercing bullets is drinking way too much kool-aid.

YES I AGREE! with Gov. Bob McDonnell "Gun free" zones "invite" bad guys! THINK!

How about Federal School Marshalls? Take the survey now: http://lnkd.in/V8qtVV

If you think bringing guns into our Virginia schools are going to make our schools safer, we might as well live in China where Government controls everything. Our hearts and prayers go out to all affected by the Sandy Hook shooting, but lets not over react to one horrific incident. Our kids are in the safest schools anywhere in the world, but part of the price of freedom is we cant prevent every sick individual attack. Instead of bringing guns to our schools, lets walk our kids to school, lets offer support to teachers and staff and watch what is going on in our own communities.

Schools are easy targets. Violence occurs? Call the police...the guys with guns. A properly trained gun carrier in the school will deter and defend. The theater in Colorado where Giffords was shot was the only one in the area that banned (with a sign) conceal carry...chance or choice for the gunman? Even the "hated" NRA decal deters criminals!

My daughter was raised in Mt. Vernon and became a teacher and lives in Maryland.
I always wished she could return to Virginia until today. Now I am grateful that she lives in a state where the Governor understands that arming teachers is not a good idea. I cannot imagine why our Governor thinks this is a good idea and hope he realizes many of his constituents are not in favor of his suggestin.

McDonnell wasn't proposing anything. He said it was something that could be included in discussions and it should be. This response gets to the heart of the concern (the safety of our children in schools) more than calling for more gun control laws and could possibly save lives if someone goes beserk in school with any kind of weapon. You can't stop crazy people from doing crazy things; you can only try to add as much protection as is feasible. In our messed up modern world we have armed security on planes, at concerts, high schools, stores, malls, and just about everywhere. I don't think this is such a far-out idea; it's just a shame that our society has fallen to this level. How about a ban on realistic-violence video games? How about a ban on CSI and violent movies and TV shows that are desensitizing our young people to the horrors of death and violence?

In answer to a question, the Governor said the idea should be considered. A lot of things should be considered. In his sermon at Good Shepherd Church last Sunday, our pastor asked us to think about the presents we'll be giving our children and grandchildren for Christmas, and to consider carefully those which involve violence. My mind went immediately to any number of video games in which the taking of human or "alien" life is the measure of success. And then I thought of Hollywood and TV. If our children are fed a steady diet of violence, are the odds increased that some of them will act it out in their own lives? And to what extent has our entire culture been changing to mirror what is served up to us daily by the "infotainment" industry? This isn't a new question, of course. And we've heard for years that industry's answer: "We're only giving them what they want!"

Is it really what we want?