In the wake of the mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, proposals have come in from all quarters regarding how to stop another such atrocity.
The response from the Left has been as expected — calls for banning many or all firearms in common use, stricter background checks, raising the legal age to purchase a firearm, boycotting the NRA, etc. Of course, it is hard to imagine how any of that would have stopped the perpetrator, a mentally unbalanced and homicidal young man.
After all, over the last two years, the killer had been disciplined in school 25 times, local police were summoned to his house 39 times, friends and neighbors had reported to police multiple times that he was collecting guns and had a desire to kill people, and the FBI had been warned twice about him — once after posting on social media that he wanted to become a “professional school shooter,” and once when a girl close to him warned that he was talking about killing people. In both instances the FBI failed to follow up. And that’s not to mention the failures of law enforcement at the scene.
To the shock and outrage of many on the Left, President Donald Trump proposed training and arming teachers and school staff. Their reaction was as immediate as it was predictable. Washington’s Democrat Governor Jay Inslee cried, “I have listened to the first-grade teachers that don’t want to be pistol-packing first-grade teachers. I’ve listened to law enforcement who have said they don’t want to have to train teachers. … Educators should educate and they should not be foisted upon this responsibility of packing heat in first-grade classes.”
Gun control advocates call the idea of arming teachers “crazy,” arguing, “We need fewer guns, not more guns.” A New York Times editorial pointed to an analysis of shooting accuracy by NYPD officers — which claims they put only one-third of their shots on target under stress — as to why teachers should not be armed. But if that is the argument, wonders columnist Dennis Prager, isn’t that also an argument for disarming police?
Prager also points to an LA Times editorial that asked, “If a pistol-strapping chemistry teacher had grabbed her .45 and unloaded on today’s gunman after he killed, what, one student? Three? Five? That would be good news?” But isn’t one or three or five dead better than 17 dead?
MSDHS Coach Aaron Feis died a hero, bullets ripping through his body while shielding students from the attacker. Yet many who call him a hero also do not think he should have been armed. How many fewer would have died had Feis been able to return fire?
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12 comments:
So how is this going to work? Teacher carries gun on person all day or gun is kept in a safe in the teacher's desk or classroom? A handgun being carried by a teacher can easily be taken from the teacher. If kept in safe, what happens when the teacher leaves the room? Takes gun with him/her to lunch/bathroom/breakroom? The coach example above doesn't work if gun is in a safe. He was outside on the field and ran into the school. People need to think this through before just saying give guns to teachers.
How about this, change the rule that makes Schools "Gun free Zones" then allow teachers who are responsibly trained to carry in the schools if they want. Don't broadcast who has what. then see if the killers want to continue to shoot up schools at their own risk
9:43 You're basing your opinion that a kid couldn't take a gun from a cop? The deputy assigned to North Dorchester is a pretty small female? Just saying.
To 9:43: I think I may have heard this before...It was right after a series of plane hijackings in the 60's:
"Why arm the pilot? He's trained to fly a plane, not to shoot intruders."
"Why put another gun in the plane? We're trying to keep them out of the aircraft!"
"Why put an undercover Air Marshall on each plane? What if he goes crazy and starts shooting up the place?"
Yes, I heard it before.
And it wasn't long after that - immediately, actually - that hijackings stopped.
9:45am---AMEN!!!! It will be a sad "a-ha" moment when an angry kid takes the gun of a teacher and uses it on someone. Come on people...aren't teachers responsible for enough?
We're also operating under the assumption that the teachers who do choose to carry will be sound in the head
THINK people! Why not arm a janitor? Not only they not tied to any particular classroom, they would probably cost less in the long term.
9:43 it's been thought though, Many counties and school districts throughout the US have allowed teachers to be armed for OVER 15 years now. Notice how they have not ever made the news for not only a school shooting but all these other things people dream up "could happen."
#1 there was a whole security apparatus put into place after 9/11. How you guys jump to the conclusion that it was "arming the pilot" that stopped them baffles me. Your powers of logic are soooo superior
#2 faulty logic again, as the vast majority of schools around the country have NEVER experienced a mass shooting.
Have you seen the fights in our schools on social media? Thugs knocking teachers to the ground with 1 punch in the media. The deputy in a school has been through extensive self defense and takedown training and it's her job to do so. Teachers are there to teach not be cops/security. Most are super liberals that don't want to carry a gun. A month ago, everyone on here was bashing teachers as lazy liberals that make too much money and only work 9 months out of the year.
10:47 Hijackings stopped when the militant groups were taken out and screening was done at the airport. Air marshals are only effective because you can't get a gun on a plane in the first place unless you conceal it in the second place.
Security is layers. You don't leave the school doors wide open just because teachers may be armed. You people are such dunces. You can really tell you people don't get off the Eastern Shore much since you are so clueless as to what goes on in the real world. Arming teachers would be the last in a line of other safety measures. Do yourselves a favor and stifle yourselves in public so as not to embarrass yourselves in front of people who can actual think.
AS we experience an armed shooting Teacher in Georgia. Statistics work AGAINST this theory. More guns only increases the access to guns due to availability. Do the math
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