cinepro wrote:I asked a policeman friend of mine what his solution to the problem of gun violence in schools would be.
He suggested that every school have between 5-10 teachers that get a bump in pay for being trained in armed defense. This would include on-going training.
Each teacher and school could decide whether they wanted to have a firearm locked in a safe in their desk, or somewhere else like the teacher's lounge or the office.
Or not even have a gun on campus at all.
Then the school district would let it be publicly known that each school has teachers that are trained to defend the students if the need arises, and they may or may not have ready access to their weapon.
My friend theorized that this would prevent almost all school "invasions", since there has never been someone who attacked a school that wanted a gun fight (after all, they attack schools and not police stations!). Schools are defenseless campuses with many helpless students clustered together. As long as this is the case, crazy people looking for easy people to kill will seek out schools.
This sounded pretty good to me, and I was surprised to see that California legislator Tim Donnelly has actually moved in this direction:
To quote EA, yeah, cuz there is nothing as impenetrable as the fortress known as the locked desk.
What amuses me in this is that often the same people who don't trust teachers to teach their children now want them packing pistols around their kids.
And since these disturbed people usually kill themselves, I doubt that their motive in picking a school is avoiding a gunfire. They're trying to inflict the most damage possible on society by targeting children, in my opinion. Or they're kids themselves taking revenge.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
beastie wrote:What amuses me in this is that often the same people who don't trust teachers to teach their children now want them packing pistols around their kids.
As an inconsequential aside, this reminded me of the below image that was making the rounds a few weeks back:
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." ~Charles Bukowski
The poll, by Public Policy Polling, found that 39 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who was endorsed by the NRA. By contrast, only 26 percent said having the NRA’s support would make them more likely to vote for someone.
It doesn't look much like the NRA is winning.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
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beastie wrote:I doubt that their motive in picking a school is avoiding a gunfire. They're trying to inflict the most damage possible on society by targeting children, in my opinion. Or they're kids themselves taking revenge.
This.
Definitely.
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