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Love it. I also get long explanations about what an assault weapon is. Right now there is a thread on our local next door which started about having police officers in buildings. Wasn't there one in the high school in Florida. I haven't even read it because i am sure that there are people suggesting that teachers should be armed. Si…
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Love it. I also get long explanations about what an assault weapon is. Right now there is a thread on our local next door which started about having police officers in buildings. Wasn't there one in the high school in Florida. I haven't even read it because i am sure that there are people suggesting that teachers should be armed. Sigh. As a former educator who knows that you would have to have the gun locked up and even then we sometimes lost our keys. Students would have the gun in a nanosecond.
That “Good Guy With a Gun” bullshit is so blatantly stupid, IDK how anyone would even suggest it. The first fallacy is How the Fuck does a responding cop to an ACTIVE SHOOTER SCENE know a good guy from a bad guy? Any black guy would be a fool to be standing there with a gun. (Too many of them get shot without a gun) These Repugnant politicians just pull this shit out of their ass without any actual thot, but the ignorant cult base eat it up.
I'd really like to hear Joe Biden say this.
Former HS teacher here, too. I would quit in a heartbeat. Or I would never have gone into teaching at all.
I was surprised at how many people approve of teachers having concealed weapons. Not me!
“And fifty-four percent of voters approve of arming teachers with concealed weapons, while only 34% oppose it, a net approval of +20.”
I don’t understand that thinking. But there’s a lot of thinking that makes no sense to me at all. In this case, maybe they’ve never been in a classroom, as a teacher or a parent of school children.
Good point, I’m not a teacher but my mom was. I can’t imagine her with a gun…ever. Guns and kids don’t mix!
Perfectly said! “Guns and kids don’t mix.”