In the past, there actually HAVE been some inner city schools in which teachers have been encouraged to learn how to use a firearm, obtain a license, and keep it in their classroom. Sadly, this was mostly so they could protect themselves from students, not random whack jobs. :-(
Guns are not for me. I am uncomfortable handling them, firing them, and pretty much being around them. At least that's how I feel about rifles, I've never fired a handgun. But I have no problem with them in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing and is mentally stable. Unfortunately, not all state governments make formal training and mental stability a prerequisite for gun ownership. But someone like a security guard should have a firearm and be trained in how to use it - obviously the security guard in the article you linked cannot perform his job adequately without one.
For unrelated reasons, most Texas school have at least one actual police officer on campus (mostly due to gang activity.) Some like HISD have their own police for the entire district separate from the actual HPD.
My concern is more that I hear so many folks say 'guns are bad, guns are wrong, we need to get rid of all guns' here in the Chicago area. Particularly the press, when in case after case we see that an armed public is not only competent to defend itself, it can in fact prevent a larger disaster and in many cases prevent any death at all. The reason we don't hear about it all the time, is because a 'non death incident' generates very few headlines. or in the case of the disabled man who saved a police officer's life, it is so strong in proving that gun ownership saves lives that it gets buried as far as the media can bury it, especially when the citizen is impossible to impeach as an actor in the situation. (As disabled people generally don't wrestle folks to the ground as a rule.)
I have a simple exam for a true pacifist. One that illustrates for me the fact that most folks are indeed at some level prone to defending themselves
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An aside from that, I'm ok with not everyone carrying a gun, but having access to a weapon in general tends to dissuade folks from random acts of violence, simply because they don't know your skill level with said weapon. If this wasn't the case, armed police escorts would be useless, as would reeves during SCA tournaments
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Guns are not for me. I am uncomfortable handling them, firing them, and pretty much being around them. At least that's how I feel about rifles, I've never fired a handgun. But I have no problem with them in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing and is mentally stable. Unfortunately, not all state governments make formal training and mental stability a prerequisite for gun ownership. But someone like a security guard should have a firearm and be trained in how to use it - obviously the security guard in the article you linked cannot perform his job adequately without one.
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My concern is more that I hear so many folks say 'guns are bad, guns are wrong, we need to get rid of all guns' here in the Chicago area. Particularly the press, when in case after case we see that an armed public is not only competent to defend itself, it can in fact prevent a larger disaster and in many cases prevent any death at all. The reason we don't hear about it all the time, is because a 'non death incident' generates very few headlines. or in the case of the disabled man who saved a police officer's life, it is so strong in proving that gun ownership saves lives that it gets buried as far as the media can bury it, especially when the citizen is impossible to impeach as an actor in the situation. (As disabled people generally don't wrestle folks to the ground as a rule.)
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