Armed Teachers Vs Good Sense! Fight!

[dv8nation]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/02/1384531/armed-teacher-training-program/

An Ohio gun owners’ group is launching an “Armed Teacher Training Program” to instruct teachers and school staff on how to shoot off firearms in the

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[rimpala]

Welp. gun nuts, you're getting your wish, lets train our teachers to shoot our own children. I need a drink.

[sandwichwarrior]

I simply can not wrap my head around the idea that you would trust someone to be responsible for other people's children but not trust them to handle a weapon responsibly.

I mean the stakes aren't even on the same continent much less in the same ballpark.

A gun or knife is an inanimate object, as such it almost never does anything unexpected or untoward.

Children on the other hand are prone to both.

[rimpala]

I don't trust all teachers, some have been caught before for molesting students, and the job is already stressful enough without them having to be trained to kill. But hey what am I going on about anyways, you all won. It's not going to prevent another mass shooting I can see that already, but it doesn't matter because the most important thing is more money in the NRA's pocket.

[fizzyland]

I'm dubious about trusting many of our cops with guns, I feel much more so towards people with even less professional inclination to be shooters. Yes, any idiot can pull a trigger but it's a rare cat that can do so effectively in a high-stress situation.

[sandwichwarrior]

Yes, any idiot can pull a trigger but it's a rare cat that can do so effectively in a high-stress situation.

I absolutely agree but I don't think they are as rare as you think.

I'm kind of dubious about specifically arming teashers, but at the same time I can see no reason why one who is already armed should be prohibitted from carrying at work.

First respnder is you after all.

[ytterbius]

Ok, so you don't wrap your head around it, but do you consider it fair for me, as a parent, to be able to (having wrapped my head in a particular way) say that the teachers of my kids are NOT going to be carrying guns at school?

[usekh]

I cannot wrap my head around the fact that the right in general has spent years denigrating the role of teachers, and their responsibility but now want them armed.