quash said:
whiterock said:
Waco1947 said:
more guns are not the solution. Teachers don't want them
some do. and it's cruel to deny them the ability to protect themselves and their kids.
but we can't have that. The anti-gunners will never let guns be a part of a solution to a problem.
First, I'm not sure schools are safer with armed teachers. https://giffords.org/lawcenter/report/every-incident-of-mishandled-guns-in-schools/
Second, can we trust teachers with deadly weapons? We can't trust them to teach their classes without a full year of lesson plans online. We can't trust them to handle a discussion about the role of slavery in the founding of our country. We can't trust them to hide their marital status from students.
But yeah, let's add some more responsibility to people we don't trust. Because the people whose one job was to stop a shooter, alone if necessary, decided not to do that.
I said we should not "deny them the ability to protect themselves and their kids...."
I didn't say "we must arm all teachers" (the usual straw man objection to the idea).
That said, your objection is a real one and can be addressed the following way:
1) it must be voluntary. (no forcing teachers to carry).
2) teachers must be trained. (for school-room scenarios).
3) teachers must practice. (for school-room scenarios).
4) even just having a gun locked in a safe in class would be an improvement.
We have a structural psychological problem going on throughout this debate: we sense that preparing kids and classrooms for bad things degraded the educational environment...."it's just HORRIBLE that kinds have to see cops and guns at school." In many cases, the same folks who make the "we can't raise our kids in a war zone" argument are the ones insisting we teach our kids that they are all either perps or victims of t "systemic oppression" and that "words are violence."
In reality, kids NEED to see cops and guns at school. They need to be prepared for bad things to happen. We used to drill once a month in diving under our classroom desk to survive a soviet nuclear attack. It led to a lot of discussions about the benefits of our system over others. Later, we went to the moon, elected Reagan, won the Cold War. I got a couple of college degrees, fought in the Cold War, fought in the WOT before we called it the WOT, spent 7 hours yesterday on my knees weeding my wife's lavender patch, and am now here arguing on the internet with someone I do not know waiting for the tylenol to kick in. The blessings of liberty and all that.
Those nuclear war drills weren't so bad. No kid's life was ruined by them. Life is tough. The quicker we prepare kids for it, the better of they will be. And shame on us if we choose to argue interminably about things of at best tangential benefit rather than move expeditiously to do obvious things to protect them while they are in our care.
