Reply #130: I didn't miss your point...

[YvonneCa]

...and I am going to bail here because it's obvious to me that we won't agree. You don't get my job...at all...and you seem incapable of even trying to.

1. Guns and watches are different. It's not adding metal to the wardrobe that adds to a teacher's job. Watches don't kill people. But if, as an overscheduled teacher, I also have to be the person responsible for a piece of metal that COULD kill or injure a student...that is too much to ask. It's too large a responsibility, because it is very likely to hurt a child I am responsible for.

2. This story http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS127007+05-Feb-2008+MW20080205 portrays this as "Teachers don't want to carry firearms at school because they don't feel confident." BS. This has nothing to do with confidence in teachers' abilities.

3. The folks that want firearms in schools have an agenda. They are trying to say it's necessary by using the 'fear' tactic Republicans always use...this time, the fear of another school shooting. I have worked in schools for 20+ years and attended them for 20+ more. Most are safe places. SAFE. Hear that? SAFE. The school shootings are outliers.

Teachers with guns will not make them safer. Period. It will, however, sell a lot of guns. It will, however, give publicity to the NRA. I'm not for that...You??

Have a great life!