Wouldn't any mass shooter just shoot this guy first?

You have no fricking clue what their vetting process is Parsons.

Some crazy nut doesn’t even need to pay to join Oath Keepers, he can go on eBay and buy a Oath Keepers’ patch and declare himself to be a member.

You won't see any of these guys cowering behind a car during the next school shooting.

Of course you will chose to ignore the fact that one of your Gods, Matthew Fairfield, while as president of a Oath Keepers chapter was jailed on 54 criminal counts related to his alleged storing of a live napalm bomb at his home, along with other explosives kept at a friend's home. And that he had already had been sentenced to two years' probation for carrying concealed weapons.

Then in Tennessee, thre was an armed man driving a pickup truck emblazoned with an Oath Keepers logo arrested in a bizarre scheme to place two dozen officials in a town under arrest.

Oh, there was another Oath Keeper, Charles Dyer, was arrested in Oklahoma for the alleged rape and forcible sodomy of a 7-year-old child; he was also charged with possessing a grenade launcher that had been stolen from a California military base in 2006.

There are MANY other cases, I could go on and on…but you should get the message and understand it.

Yet YOU don’t seem to and you show that you completely satisfied without any reservations whatsoever that these types of individuals are eminently qualified to stand across the street from schools armed with an AR-15 and a pistol….proudly displaying their Oath Keepers patch.

I have shown you how Nikolas Cruz could have joined Oath Keepers and become an Associate Member.

You've shown NOTHING you arrogant ass.

That is still hope for you some day and …

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. Isaiah 35:5

Fricking liar - properly vettted Oathkeepers standing guard at schools is a workable approach.

They are not “properly vetted.” They never have been and probably never will be.

All Rhodes wants in the monthly memberships dues coming in each month.

Wow….look at what we have here:

And now you want to let domestic terrorists stand across the street from schools armed withAR-15s and pistols....wearing their Oath Keepers’ patches?

Hypocritically quoting scripture again Parsons? What a pretentious, arrogant and pompous, utterly clueless ass clown!

Truth is where you find it"....those are your words.

If you expect the OathKeepers to give Nikolas Cruz a HappyMeal, you can forget it!

Gatlin/Parsons would rather watch cops wet their panties in fear rather than have dedicated veterans stand watch at schools.

I hope I have made myself perfectly clear and trust that I adequately describe the Oath Keepers membership to you.

The only solution will be to go to the root source of the problem, identifying potential a mass shooter before s/he is too far gone and takes action. Some of that is being done already, but as in the case oc Cruz....the warnings were ignored. How that can be improved on....I will leave to the experts.

Obviously some people are already thinking along these lines as evidenced by other sources and this:
Trying To Better Detect Potential Mass Shooters After Las Vegas

Would you be on-board with this if the group worked together with the local police departments who could run background checks on any of the volunteers and weed out those who do not pass muster?

People react in variously different ways for many reasons. I could never automatically blanket label it fear, although that may sometimes be the final determined reason. Until I had a thorough understanding to the situation... I would just say they “freeze” for some unknown reason. Remember the story about the Army Master Sergeant, a veteran of WWII in Euorpe, I posted where he froze when it was time to throw the WP grenade and the instructor had to grab it out of his hand and throw it down range.

as in the case oc Cruz....the warnings were ignored.

The warnings were deliberately ignored by the Sheriff department AND the Feebs in order to create the opportunity for this massacre to happen.

The Sheriff's ultimate agenda includes gun bans followed by eventual confiscation - that should be obvious to even you Parsons.

... or he is just going to be killed.

I figure the poor fellow will be killed. It was stated that he introduced himself to the local cops patrolling the area and the school resource officer.

But some off-duty cop that doesn’t know who he is or what he doing is not going to just drive by and think: Oh look there’s a guy standing across the street with an AR- 15 and just wave to him while yelling have a nice day. The off-duty cop will draw down on the guy and order him to drop his weapons. If the guy makes any indication of a wrong move, then....BAM, BAM.

Yes, his intentions are good....but his actions are stupidly death threatening to him.

"And our law enforcement, as good as it is, can’t be everywhere."

Even when it is there, it quite often just cowers and hides.

Would it be possible for you to specifically characterize “quite often” in both frequency of occurrence and number of LEOs involved....then cite specific incidents, other than the most recent school shooting?

I'm not sure how they can stop him or do anything else.

I am merely pointing out the possibility of some cop driving by and not know what he is doing there and challenges him and he could possible be shot.

Of course, you never know, maybe there are kids or teachers in that school who do feel more secure, seeing a heavily armed guy standing watch quietly across the street.

I believe I read the school does not want him there.

Even so, I can see how this is problematic, a heavily-armed neighborhood watch kind of thing.

Within 1000 feet on any public property. That's the law.

Your agenda here is to denigrate a group of veterans and COPS who refuse to follow UNCONSTITUTIONAL orders and have a plan to offer protection to schools.

In fulfilling my purpose, I wish to call to your attention that the Montana Supreme Court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) recommended Thursday that Elmer “Stewart” Rhodes, Montana lawyer and founder of the Oath Keepers, be disbarred for violating his attorney oath, according to a recent filing.

Based upon the foregoing factual findings and legal conclusions, the Commission makes the following recommendation:

1. That Elmer S. Rhodes be disbarred;

2. That he be required to comply with the notice provisions of Rule 30, MRLDE upon disbarment; and

3. That he be assessed the reasonable and necessary costs of these proceedings in accordance with Rule 9A(8), MRLDE.

The case, opened a year ago, involved a trio of issues:

1)     On April 28, 2014, a federal judge in Arizona filed an ethics grievance against Rhodes for appearing in court “without license or an application to appear pro hac vice.” The latter is a requirement for a lawyer who wants to practice in a federal court located in a state where he or she isn't licensed. Rhodes did not respond to the Judge’s grievance.

2)     On May 12, 2014, Rhodes’ Arizona client Michael Roth lodged a complaint against his lawyer, stating that Rhodes had provided incompetent representation and had abandoned him in his civil suit in federal court.  Rhodes did not respond to his former client’s complaint.

3)     On July 30, 2014, the Commission on Practice set a hearing date for Rhodes to answer to these grievances in person. That date was later adjusted by a day in an amended order.  Rhodes did not show up for his hearing.

According to federal court records, Rhodes had a second Arizona client, Jennifer “Jade” Jones, who also found herself without a lawyer in the middle of a civil case in federal court. While it does not appear that she filed a complaint with the ODC, she complained to the federal court.  "I am the plaintiff the above titled action," she wrote the judge. "I have been unable to reach my attorney, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, for several weeks."

A series of confrontations

Since the Oath Keepers’ founding in 2009, the organization has engaged in a series of confrontations with the government, the most notable of which was the heavily-armed standoff against the federal government at Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada.

These confrontations started in 2011 in the Arizona town of Quartzsite when the Oath Keepers inserted themselves into a vitriolic, small-town fight between two factions. Protesters had been arrested at two City Council meetings, and two months later the Oath Keepers assembled in Quartzsite to fight the tyrannical government, prevent martial law, stop the encroachment of the “New World Order," and "restore the republic."

Calling all freedom troops! Oath Keepers Muster! Quartzsite, Arizona! -- Oath Keeper blog entry, July 31, 2011

The Oath Keepers, led by Rhodes, gathered to hold the “Quartzsite Liberty Rally” against the town's then-Chief of Police.

The two protesters that were arrested were Michael Roth and Jennifer Jones.

Current trouble with Montana is not Rhodes’ first rodeo

In May of 2012, Rhodes was publicly admonished by the Arizona Supreme Court and fined $600 for acting as the Quartzite protesters’ attorney when he wasn’t licensed to practice law in Arizona.  According to his online biography, he had clerked for the Arizona Supreme Court in 2004, so it seems unlikely he was unfamiliar with the licensing laws.

Even following this admonishment, he continued to represent Mr. Roth and Ms. Jones in Arizona, filing several federal lawsuits on their behalf.

Citing family illnesses, Rhodes filed a request to be released from the some of these cases in late 2013/early 2014, but by April of that year, he simply stopped participating in one of the Jones cases. On April 15^th, for example, he failed to appear by telephone for a status conference, and on the 18^th was removed from the case by the judge.

04/18/2014      ORDER, Mr Rhodes is discharged from representing Plaintiffs in this matter; the Court will send a letter to the Montana State Bar Association regarding Mr Rhodes' failure to represent his clients and respond to court orders; Plaintiffs Jennifer Marie Jones and John Lavern Jones are now unrepresented in this matter[.]

Rhodes was indeed too busy on those days to represent his client.  He was leading the Oath Keepers in another confrontation at Bundy Ranch in an armed standoff against the Bureau of Land Management

Disbarment in the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada for:
Elmer Stewart Rhodes, President of the Oath Keepers.

I bet their members-only forum is a riot.

I think Elmer discovered a “cash cow” and he is milking her for all she is worth to collect the yearly dues he duped a great number of people into paying using the beautifully magical sounding buzz word “Constitution.” He now even has recognizable names soliciting donations to him. That was done recently after one of the hurricanes.

Oh, I ran across this jewel this evening: Daniel Knight Hayden, an Oklahoma man self-identified as an Oath Keeper, was indicted by a federal grand jury after posting Twitter messages threatening to unleash a violent attack on Oklahoma state government officials on April 15, tax day.