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In reply to the discussion: Guns in the Classroom.... let's think about this for a minute.... [View all]MedicalAdmin
(4,143 posts)80. Children, and this may surprise you, move about.
Often in unpredictable ways. Especially in stressful situations.
Her kids may or may not be hiding behind her /him. But they are much more likely to be under control and calm if the teacher is ONLY focusing on them and not on the 1 weekend day gun before school inservice she/he attended 6 months previously.
Even your dog looks skeptical.
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Hopefully you'll realize that RW NRA propaganda is nothing but lies later on down your life.
baldguy
Dec 2012
#139
Yeah, and then if the 2nd or 3rd teacher didn't shoot up the "one" intruder,
MichiganVote
Dec 2012
#5
No. We need to increase mental health, especially for vets, and decrease availability of firearms.
PeaceNikki
Dec 2012
#35
It takes thousands of rounds of serious training in proper training facilities to get proficient
PeaceNikki
Dec 2012
#55
So who is going to pay for the huge increase in liability insurance the schools will have to carry?
MedicalAdmin
Jan 2013
#163
Semi automatic weapons with huge magazines in the hands of a trained killer vs.
MichiganVote
Dec 2012
#26
Well I am a teacher, and when I visualize myself trying to protect my students with a gun,
Chemisse
Dec 2012
#158
It takes thousands of rounds of serious training in proper training facilities to get proficient
PeaceNikki
Dec 2012
#119
Teachers are not the ones with the learning disabilities. Members of the NRA are the ones
jillan
Dec 2012
#126
If the staff in the office is armed, that's one thing... but if the gunman hopped the fence in any
jillan
Dec 2012
#8
I propose you suggest something or just get lost. You don't seem to belong here.
MichiganVote
Dec 2012
#40
Ban assault weapons. Ban pistols. Jail the living shit out of violators
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2012
#46
Have you ever shot at a target that is reinforced, moving with lots of innocents
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#152
If the guns in the classroom program were instituted, I'd give it a week before some angry
Squinch
Dec 2012
#13
Really. The whole idea is just as dumb as could be. We have gone completely crazy.
Squinch
Dec 2012
#45
Institute guns in the classroom in any sane part of the country & watch attendance drop by
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2012
#14
I don't think these proposals are calling for the weapon to be locked up.
Lizzie Poppet
Dec 2012
#15
Are you suggesting that these officers thwart mass shootings regularly in Chicago?
PeaceNikki
Dec 2012
#48
I have yet to see proof that officers in Chicago schools have thwarted a mass shooting.
PeaceNikki
Dec 2012
#64
So in your mind there are the pro-murder children crowd and those against murdering children.
former9thward
Dec 2012
#84
Bingo!! Yep! Because there is no way having armed teachers is going to save lives.
jillan
Dec 2012
#59
and if she does get the gun, is she going to fire over the kids risking they get hit with friendly
appleannie1
Dec 2012
#53
You're dreaming. There are no security officers in all HS's, MS's or elem.
MichiganVote
Dec 2012
#107
"Why do you all believe that all will be right in the world if guns are banned?"
Chorophyll
Dec 2012
#108
Add to that -the 2 mass shootings here in WI and the man who killed his cop wife were VETS
PeaceNikki
Dec 2012
#148
Yeah. I don't want to make any sweeping generalizations about veterans obviously, but we as a nation
Chorophyll
Dec 2012
#149
Teachers are hired to teach. If you, Mr. Public, want security-fucking pay for it.
MichiganVote
Dec 2012
#115
Ya, right! Teachers are going to walk around with holsters? What is this? The wild west??
jillan
Dec 2012
#125
It IS the wild west according to some people! And the civil war is still being fought, too!
Chorophyll
Dec 2012
#128