Teachers with guns?

[foragefarmer]

Sum

"News reports that an armed sheriff stood outside the school for four minutes until police arrived instead of stopping the shootings. What a hero! "


Excellent point, and yet teachers should be expected to leap into action with a pistol if a shooter walks in
to the school with AR-15.

[agstar77]

Kindergarten Cop Yikes ! What have they come to? More guns , more chances of accidental shooting.

[farmaholic]

O88....good point, I went to the Regina Court House a while ago to sit in on some testimony of a criminal trial. I got scanned in like an airport. Jacket off, and everything out of the pockets and in a bucket, then they put it through a scanner....then I had to walk through a scanner.

Biglentil....I do agree it may give pause for thought. But I don't think alot of teachers would want to be a target....for no good reason other than personal protection.

[biglentil]

Sum

"News reports that an armed sheriff stood outside the school for four minutes until police arrived instead of stopping the shootings. What a hero! "


Excellent point, and yet teachers should be expected to leap into action with a pistol if a shooter walks in
to the school with AR-15.

Look how well strict gun control works in Mexico, the cartel likes it that way they have all the guns. In Australia ultra strict gun control had little to no efect on murder, violent crime and even suicide. Do you honestly think criminals are going to register or turn in their guns? A gun safe full of AR's in the teachers lounge not a bad idea.

[burnt]

And still no one makes mention of the common denominator in the majority of these mass murders - prescribed psychiatric drugs.

I agree that no one needs high-capacity magazines, automatic weapons, etc., but how would anyone be able to stop the production and distribution of them?

There are much deeper societal causes that remain largely unaddressed - family breakdowns, fatherlessness, violent entertainment, a whole realm of media *****s who love and hugely profit from the ratings that such events create.

The media is every bit as much to blame as the gun lobby. Huge publicity=instant fame=copycat events. Their profits just look so much cleaner in broadcasting this evil than the ugly image acquired by the weapons manufacturers.

[Sheepwheat]

Well it is not like tougher gun laws are going to solve this one. So I think it is what has to happen. I have always felt that if a gunman came to the school I attended, i and a bunch of other hunter/farm kids, would have stormed the shooter. People have such a lack of understanding about guns. Sitting there and hiding like sitting ducks, just makes it easier for the shooter. Guns, all guns have limitations, need reloading, need space to operate and swing. There are points in time when storming the gunman would be effective.

Now, to those fearful of guns, arming teachers is scary. To those of us with understanding of guns, it is the only way, in a culture where this is all too frequent.

I am so glad my kids school is armed to the teeth, and that all the students in our school, know and respect guns, and know how to use them.

In the states, there are many times when the presence of weaponry has alleviated far more carnage.

I truly do not understand the fear of arming teachers, or at least have dedicated guards posted. I guess we could just leave it as it is, and close our eyes and pretend tougher gun laws will save us. To those people, I say, good luck and best wishes.

[GDR]

Not sure there is a good action plan here. Teachers could cause more death in some situations or could go nuts themselves with a gun close by. More security at school also costs major dollars and causes major headaches and likely wouldn't help much either unless every child is escorted to and from home. Hundreds of kids leaving the school at the end of the day just as easy of a target on the sidewalk.

Not right for children to grow up in an environment where they are scared of this type of threat, even just the security etc in the school must leave an imprint on their minds forever about our world.

I like guns and agree that people kill people not guns, but oh my they have a problem. Absolutely the age to purchase needs to be higher. And no history of mental illness individuals should be able to buy. And even in this case the police where warned and did nothing, maybe the solution should start there with giving the cops absolute authority to take guns away right then and there, no questions asked.

Whoever said video games and movies are not to blame needs to give their head a shake and watch some or better yet watch some teenagers play them. So real, and people not just kids get so immersed in them they don't know what's real and what's not.

To take firearms away from people is wrong but if you live in a city with no where to safely discharge one you shouldn't have one. The automatic stuff should only be allowed at gun ranges if at all.

I heard one time there were more people than guns in USA so how you gonna take them away, nobody that might be a problem is gonna turn them in.

Other than actual true hunting guns, all others should have an insane high tax on them of thousands of dollars to discourage people buying and that tax money could be used to buy and destroy guns back from people to get guns out of communities.

[farmaholic]

Whoever said video games and movies are not to blame needs to give their head a shake and watch some or better yet watch some teenagers play them. So real, and people not just kids get so immersed in them they don't know what's real and what's not.

If some TV, movies and video games are a true reflection of our society, we are ****ed.
They may not be the only problem but I believe some are a huge negative cultural affect and cause of social rot.
The numbing affect....

[foragefarmer]

GDR


"Whoever said video games and movies are not to blame needs to give their head a shake and watch some or better yet watch some teenagers play them. So real, and people not just kids get so immersed in them they don't know what's real and what's not."


Yes, and let's get rid of the Enternet, Google, Iphones, and any form of communication. Billions of Billion of people using them everyday and their all mass murders.

I just burn my Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden (especially the "Number of the Beast" as it may start the devil worshiping) records this morning because my kids started to listen to them this week!

[15444]

Have said since Columbine, teachers should be armed. Pussification of US people has gone too far, no one wants to stand up for themselves anymore. Need to be protected from everything. Hate to see US turn into Canada.