She’s responding to me, but — you do you.Atlanticmike wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:16 pmYou sure are doing a terrible job ignoring me c'mon, admit it, you love me!Jersey Girl wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:08 pmDeranged man who walks in? Building security. You stop him at the door. This isn't rocket science.
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If you feel your high school’s building security is subpar, then you have a cause you can fight. Be a support to your community!Atlanticmike wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:23 pmI was in a high school two years ago to pick my daughter up because she was sick. I opened the front door, went to a desk 30 feet away, handed over my license and got a visitor sticker. I was escorted to the nurses office by a 70 year old 5'1" 130lbs grandmother. I admit though, she looked kinda tough if I squinted reeeeeaaally hard.
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Remember, I have no problem with folks licensed or certified to carry for defensive reasons. I’m just opposed to essentially ’deputizing’ some teachers to be responsible for actively engaging a school shooter on an offensive capacity. I prefer that folks are specifically hired for that task do the latter; they have the freedom of movement to do just that.Atlanticmike wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 6:55 pmHere's were I think we differ the most canpakes. When I say arm some teachers you guys seem to think that's a bad idea for some reason.
We haven’t even considered the emotional or psychological requirements for armed conflict. I’m not keen on adding this to a teacher’s list of tasks when others are already specifically trained to deal with those factors.
Protecting their students includes shepherding them to safety and remaining with them, as necessary, until the danger has passed. That can’t happen if the teacher leaves students to track down and engage a shooter. My position doesn’t represent an insult. Rather, it’s one of explicitly trusting those teachers to fulfil their primary responsibility to those kids.To me, saying a teacher couldn't or shouldn't handle the responsibility of protecting his/her students is an insult.
If they’re hunkered down in a classroom and the shooter enters, then that teacher is positioned to defensively protect the students. Otherwise, if the teacher takes off in search of the shooter, but is three classrooms over when that shooter finds the students left behind by the teacher, what do you think will happen?
Again - defensive action, versus offensive action, is the difference here.
I don’t think that anyone has made that claim. If anything, folks wanting to deputize teachers for LEO activities could be interpreted as believing that LEOs are not capable of protecting the children - hence the need to deputize teachers. I don’t think that you’re saying that, but you can see where other folks might get that impression.Almost as if a trained LEO/ teacher is to ignorant to be able to take down a deranged gunman.
A school shooting situation isn’t the time to be multitasking. The teacher’s primary task is to be protecting the children under their watch at the time - not leaving them behind in order to take potshots at whomever they think is the shooter.Many many Americans have more than one job. Some people manage to be trained for two or three completely different jobs and fulfill their duties without a problem, an armed LEO/TEACHER would be no different.
Besides, folks with two jobs - as your example - aren’t usually doing two jobs at the same time. It’s either one, or the other, if you want to be most effective. An active shooter situation is one where you would want to be focused and more effective at your primary responsibility.
I think that these are handled by what we’ve already discussed.Here's a couple more scenarios to help you see where I am coming from, tell me what you think please.
Now, let me ask you this … let’s say that you’re a sixth-grade teacher, when the alarm sounds and the intercom announces a lockdown due to a shooting threat. What is going to be your primary responsibility, and what will that entail?
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I've never taught sixth grade but in my case, admin called directly into the classrooms and no alarms were sounded. Sometimes admin went room to room giving notice. The building went dead silent. Just mentioning that all scenarios are not alike.
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I’m just gonna park this right here …
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There you go. And probably more often useful than a firearm.
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If you don't own a gun, this is the perfect time to go buy one. This video shows a man protecting his family. Remember, liberals want you to believe this kind of violence never happens. That way they can disarm Americans.
https://youtu.be/TzGjLlqxUFs
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A guy carrying a handgun in his pocket...(that is an intentional pause hoping you think about that fact) is rushed by a guy with a handgun at his doorstep. They have a shoot-out on the guy's front porch moments after the man returned home with his family when he is rushed by the other person with a gun who he apparently noticed standing around his house and moving up on him...after he came home...Atlanticmike wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:45 amIf you don't own a gun, this is the perfect time to go buy one. This video shows a man protecting his family. Remember, liberals want you to believe this kind of violence never happens. That way they can disarm Americans.
https://youtu.be/TzGjLlqxUFs
You realize that wasn't a home invasion, right? And it isn't an argument for handgun ownership but rather an example of lawlessness?
You advocating for lawlessness, Atlanticmike?
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I carry a gun in my pocket all the time, what's wrong with that? It was a perfect example for concealed carry.honorentheos wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:38 amA guy carrying a handgun in his pocket...(that is an intentional pause hoping you think about that fact) is rushed by a guy with a handgun at his doorstep. They have a shoot-out on the guy's front porch moments after the man returned home with his family when he is rushed by the other person with a gun who he apparently noticed standing around his house and moving up on him...after he came home...Atlanticmike wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:45 amIf you don't own a gun, this is the perfect time to go buy one. This video shows a man protecting his family. Remember, liberals want you to believe this kind of violence never happens. That way they can disarm Americans.
https://youtu.be/TzGjLlqxUFs
You realize that wasn't a home invasion, right? And it isn't an argument for handgun ownership but rather an example of lawlessness?
You advocating for lawlessness, Atlanticmike?