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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Arming teachers no but your ideas at the end, YES.  |
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Originally Posted by kane
I'm still not sure how I feel about armed teachers, but I like the idea of having all the doors lock and having the kids have ID badges they have to swipe to get into the building so all guests must enter through the main entrance. Hell, half the places I have worked during my life had a similar system.
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Nobody is saying to "arm the teachers". But the percentage of teachers and coaches who are ALREADY licensed to carry a firearm...it seems foolish to NOT have them carrying their weapons with them in case of a madman entering the school.
I graduated in 1979. And in my highschool in central Florida, all the guys who drove pickup trucks had their gun racks in the back window of their trucks with loaded rifles in them. Right there in the parking lot of the school.
But nobody was shooting up schools then. It wasn't a "gun free zone" like it is now.
I think that's the argument being made for having the 10 to 20 percent of all teachers and coaches who already have hand guns being allowed to "conceal carry" in the school.
It no longer is an easy and soft target.
As I said, when I was in highschool this kind of thing didn't happen. Anybody that tried that would have been killed pretty quick.
BUT...now that killers KNOW that a school is a "gun free zone", it makes it a "Soft target".
You don't see many people walking into a gun show convention, or a police dept. and shooting the place up...they KNOW they will get shot back at.
The President pointed out that these killers are cowards at heart. They don't go after "Hard targets"...only soft ones. And schools are pretty damn soft these days.
Anyway, that's an argument being made by the President.
The only other way to stop this would be to repeal the second amendment, confiscate all guns, and then give it another 40 or 50 years for ALL the guns to finally be gone.
By that time...we will have a lot more school shootings taking place.
Why not simply harden them up NOW and put a stop to it. Then everybody can talk and talk in Washington D.C. about "gun control". (because that's all they ever do is talk)