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Originally Posted by Rochard
You are missing a large number of issues here.
1) Teachers with guns
Do you really want your kid's teacher's to be packing a firearm when they are with them? My kid's teacher is twenty-four years old and all of ninety-five pounds soaking wet... She can't hurt a fucking fly no less fire a handgun at a range. What is she gonna do - Strap a handgun to her thigh under her dress while she plays jump rope with the kids on the playground?
What happens when one of those teachers has their firearm unsupervised for more than moment and an eight year old kid picks it up and thinks it's a toy and shoots his classmate dead?
My kid's school has twenty-six teachers. Does that mean my child is going to be surrounded by twenty-six handguns eight hours a day? Do the math here... You put twenty-six guns onto a campus and an accident will happen, someone's kid will get shot, the school district will be sued, the teacher will loose their job (because in addition to all of their job responsibilities we now require them to be law enforcement officers), and that will be only the start of the problem.
I'm sorry, I don't want my child surrounded by firearms on a daily basis by people untrained to handle it.
2) Last Resort
Arming teachers and tell them to protect school kids after the shooting has stopped is too late. The bullets have already started to fly and people are already dead. It's too late. Instead, the goal here should be to stop these people from getting firearms.
Anyone can get a firearm at this point. You can't get a fucking driver's license without a test, and you have register your car every year, but with a firearm anyone can get one....
3) Only protecting schools
Great, let's say we arm all teachers with firearms. Awesome. That's not going to protect malls. Or churches. Or government offices.
Basically you want to surround school children daily with untrained teachers who have dangerous loaded firearms and expect them to handle a tactical situation AFTER the shots have already been fired? That's called desperation.
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Richard we all wish that the situation wasn't like it is, BUT the cat is out of the bag... other than the men in black picking all the guns up in the middle of the night and then making us forget we ever had guns this isn't going away... and seriously, why not put guns in the hands of qualified people and 24 years olds? 24 year olds have been serving in the military with guns, well since they've had guns... remember? how old were you when you served and did you have a gun?
and no one is talking about arming all the teachers and you know it... you're being 'reactionary' we are talking about making a real life decision to protect our children, and taking action to follow through on the decision. this isn't about pie in the sky.... Jewish schools in the LA area are armed... ever hear any problems about that?
which brings me to this point: why not hire qualified teachers?