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Best to be prepared no?Do we have a problem with teachers shooting up schools now ?
Best to be prepared no?Do we have a problem with teachers shooting up schools now ?
How would any of these proposals do anything to stop a bad guy that already has a gun?
We have readily available repeating firearms still in circulation that date all the way back to the Civil War. Even if you pass the most stringent background checks and gun bans, we're still at least a hundred years away from any serious decrease in the supply of arms and ammunition in this country. The laws you're wanting to propose will do nothing to address our problem in the here and now. The only thing that the laws you wish to propose will solve, is easing the anxieties of the overly anxious and/or vindictive.
Adding a a new law and restriction isn't going to fix the problem of evil in our time.
It's been proven time and time again, and no one has yet to disprove this Axiom:
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun."
What could have possibly stopped the Dixon IL shooter, other than another armed individual?
Best to be prepared no?
It would have to depend upon the individual teacher.
Some individuals will be able to handle the responsibility with no issues, some simply will not. What the solution surely isn't, is to treat all teachers like some amorphis Borg-like hive mind where every single individual is only capable of one set of skills.
Certainly steps can be taken to increase school security AND try and prevent bad guys from getting their hands on guns before they shoot up a school. It's not a zero sum game.
I'm sorry, but the argument "people aren't perfect" isn't a good enough reason.Recipe for disaster.
We cant even get the resource officer thing right. At least that is a workable solution.
IIRC you don't trust the govt to do anything but you think they can tangle through the HR mess of teachers and pick and choose which ones are going to be able to have loaded gun in the classroom?
What could go wrong.......
I'm sorry, but the argument "people aren't perfect" isn't a good enough reason.
At least two people were killed and more than 40 were injured in New Jersey on Thursday after a school bus and dump truck collided on an interstate, leaving a mangled wreck in the middle of the highway, officials said.
I know for a fact there were more than a few folks in this forum who were arguing against the idea that a police officer with a gun will stop shootings--I remember specifically debating people who defended the officer who did not engage the Parkland shooter on the grounds that the shooter had a bigger gun. Of course, this was at the height of the "ban the AR-15" hysteria.I believe arming teachers is where you will get push back. Arming resource officers or police is fine with just about everyone