Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Yeah. Let's arm teachers! We need more guns in schools!

There have been more than a few incidents where a gun was found in a school. The gun was often in hands of (or left by) a teacher: https://giffords.org/blog/2020/03/every-incident-of-mishandled-guns-in-schools-blog/

Here are some pros and cons:



For police officers it's really, really stressful to deal with a high school shooting. And they are well trained and experienced:



Even a gun safety class can be extremely dangerous!



It's hard to imagine what an actual school shooting is like. These teachers had a taste:


And should kids really be traumatized because of all these 'active shooter' drills they are made to undergo?Who wants America to be populated by people who believe a shooting can take place anywhere and anytime?

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Perhaps it's time to not address the consequences but the cause of school shootings. You know, try and develop a cure for the cold instead of focusing on developing better Kleenex.

One final argument against arming teachers: if trained secret service people can't prevent a president from getting shot, how will a teacher protect a child?


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