You're a glass half empty person. All I see are 300 more news cycles of bad news for Trump, just like the last 300 news cycles.
You said that the sign telling everyone that no guns are allowed is a huge target to go commit gun murder.
You literally complained about the signs and said they aren't helping.
So, why not remove the sign? It leaves the would-be murderer with a sense of mystery: "I don't know...maybe they could be armed?"
meanwhile, your ilk's retarded solution is to arm individuals that will absolutely refuse to be armed in large order.
"Oh I have no intent to force my freedom down your throat, but if you want to teach...yeah, you're going to have to go learn to be a killer, now. Apparently we can't do police very well, and since we still can't pay you properly to be a teacher, we need you to also be police, oh and don't expect a raise."
You guys really do think up the dumbest shit, where the only solution is ever going to be some version of "moar murder guns!"
The gun lobby is proud of your dependable servitude, slave.
The wealthy lawmakers who tell us we need gun control protect themselves with guys with guns. If it is good enough for our leadership and their kids, then why does it chap your ass that I might want this for my kids?
Since when? We expect teachers/schools to let us know when our kids are ill, when they are injured. Counselors to help them and inform us when they have other mental/growing issues. We've never, in any history of humanity that I know of, expected and demanded of our teachers to act as the last line of violent defense against violent murder-happy sociopaths.We ask our teachers to protect our kids. They often do heroically, with many stories of teachers placing their bodies in front of bullets. I would like to give them a chance to shoot back or at the very least, brandish a weapon. Often brandishing the weapon ends a shooting. And yes, we can give these teachers raises, and I have argued for that. You don't even have to raise my taxes, I will voluntarily donate to this.
The wealthy lawmakers who tell us we need gun control protect themselves with guys with guns. If it is good enough for our leadership and their kids, then why does it chap your ass that I might want this for my kids?
Since when? We expect teachers/schools to let us know when our kids are ill, when they are injured. Counselors to help them and inform us when they have other mental/growing issues. We've never, in any history of humanity that I know of, expected and demanded of our teachers to act as the last line of violent defense against violent murder-happy sociopaths.
wait...are VIPs and politicians hiring armed teachers to defend them? I'm losing track of the logic, here.
Lemme ask this: if teachers nationwide were polled and the vast majority said they wanted guns banned from society (~80%+), would you take their side and work to make your kids safe at school via a ban on guns?We ask our teachers to protect our kids.
Lemme ask this: if teachers nationwide were polled and the vast majority said they wanted guns banned from society (~80%+), would you take their side and work to make your kids safe at school via a ban on guns?
No because that is asking the impossible. You cannot rid a nation of 300,000,000 guns. That is where we are, like it or not.
If a teacher wants to jump in front of bullets, we let them. If that teacher wants to shoot back at the bad guy, I would like to let them. Many teachers are already armed and trained (you might not know this). If the teacher doesn't want to be armed and trained, fine. This can't be compulsory.
Of course we could. It is simply a matter of if we have the will to do so.
If your goal is to have the fewest possible number of children die at schools this is likely a very bad idea. Considering that gun ownership in the home makes someone more likely to die than if they had no gun at all why do you think schools would be different?
Has any nation ever successfully accomplished this? Anything close to this scale?
By your logic, cops, guards, and army men should not have guns. The rich, the powerful, and the politicians all disagree with you. They have armed guards and they send their children to private schools with well trained, armed guards.
Training is the key. The average numpty with a gun at home doesn't have the training that I'd like available (voluntarily) to teachers.
I've heard that the average cop hits their target about 10% of the time in high stress situations. Assuming we can train our teachers to be just as accurate as full time police, I think the students that the teacher is trying to protect will make great backstops for the other 9 out of 10 bullets.Has any nation ever successfully accomplished this? Anything close to this scale?
By your logic, cops, guards, and army men should not have guns. The rich, the powerful, and the politicians all disagree with you. They have armed guards and they send their children to private schools with well trained, armed guards.
Training is the key. The average numpty with a gun at home doesn't have the training that I'd like available (voluntarily) to teachers.
Has any nation ever successfully accomplished this? Anything close to this scale?
By your logic, cops, guards, and army men should not have guns. The rich, the powerful, and the politicians all disagree with you. They have armed guards and they send their children to private schools with well trained, armed guards.
Training is the key. The average numpty with a gun at home doesn't have the training that I'd like available (voluntarily) to teachers.
That, by the way, is a logical fallacy.No because that is asking the impossible. You cannot rid a nation of 300,000,000 guns. That is where we are, like it or not.
Has any nation ever successfully accomplished this? Anything close to this scale?
By your logic, cops, guards, and army men should not have guns. The rich, the powerful, and the politicians all disagree with you. They have armed guards and they send their children to private schools with well trained, armed guards.
Training is the key. The average numpty with a gun at home doesn't have the training that I'd like available (voluntarily) to teachers.
A teacher injured a student on Tuesday when he accidentally fired a pistol during a lecture about public safety, police said.
Dennis Alexander, a reserve police officer, city councilman, and teacher at Seaside High School about 110 miles south of San Francisco was pointing a gun at the ceiling around 1:20 p.m. when he accidentally fired it, according to the Salinas Californian.
By all means...let's arm the teachers...what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...istol-public-safety-lecture-article-1.3873354
As a reserve police officer, he SHOULD have known better than to do stupid shit like this...and SHOULD be better trained than the average teacher.
People with mental health issues are more likely to harm themselves than others statistically speaking. While it's a part of the solution it's only one part. The ease at which people can access firearms is another part. This is a large puzzle that needs to be addressed piece by piece. For these kids the piece that want to focus on is the access. So be it.Why are the walking out to protest guns? It would seem the country would be better served if they protested the lack of mental health care.
Why are the walking out to protest guns? It would seem the country would be better served if they protested the lack of mental health care.
What happens when they start using knives and clubs? Or cars, planes and trains? Seems the underlying issues need to be addressed.Because they correctly realize that effective gun control would do a lot to limit the number of kids killed by guns.
What happens when they start using knives and clubs? Or cars, planes and trains? Seems the underlying issues need to be addressed.
We could take away everyone’s firearms tomorrow, but for any psychopath bent on causing death and destruction, killing a dozen people would still be no further away than designing a long-distance knife thrower, building it, calibrating it to accurately hit targets tens or hundreds of feet away, and ultimately going into a public area and inflicting significant casualties on unsuspecting civilians.
Sadly, it’s just that simple.