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thucythucy

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19. So an unarmed man went into a place where guns are

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 10:48 AM

Dec 2012

kept by presumably well trained police, and he was somehow able to get a gun away from one of the armed police and then shoot three people.

I can't imagine the average teacher will be better trained around weapons than your average cop. So what are the chances, then, that we'd be seeing incidents like this in schools, involving kids getting their hands on guns they otherwise wouldn't have available to them? Resulting in more people dead and injured?

Just another reason why expecting teachers to be armed is a stupid idea.

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3 officers shot at New Jersey police station [View all] Are_grits_groceries Dec 2012 OP

Teachers, police, firemen malaise Dec 2012 #1

My thoughts exactly hogwyld Dec 2012 #23

If only someone there had been armed.. SoCalDem Dec 2012 #2

But the officers were armed Berserker Dec 2012 #10

And there were a lot of them and they were TRAINED. Are_grits_groceries Dec 2012 #12

The article says that the gunman grabbed his gun thucythucy Dec 2012 #14

THAT is the biggest danger of guns in schools Tom Rinaldo Dec 2012 #17

Agreed: see my post thucythucy Dec 2012 #20

And people here on DU blame a DV victim for her own death because she didn't arm herself. PeaceNikki Dec 2012 #22

in another scenario, an unarmed officer would never have been disarmed.. frylock Dec 2012 #26

The "suspect" was unarmed. SomethingFishy Dec 2012 #27

I think we should put a teacher in every precinct. aandegoons Dec 2012 #3

and have the NRA offer them more classes.. n/t SoCalDem Dec 2012 #4

DUzy malaise Dec 2012 #5

! xchrom Dec 2012 #6

Brilliant quip! nt Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #8

But if only they had guns ... lpbk2713 Dec 2012 #7

Was that a gun-free zone, like a school? TheCowsCameHome Dec 2012 #9

Nope it was not a gun free zone Berserker Dec 2012 #11

If it had been a gun free zone thucythucy Dec 2012 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author thucythucy Dec 2012 #16

How the NRA expects you to look at the world... Barack_America Dec 2012 #13

Did he grab one of the police guns? Remmah2 Dec 2012 #18

So an unarmed man went into a place where guns are thucythucy Dec 2012 #19

Well if they're killing the police and firefighters and teachers now lunatica Dec 2012 #21

I'm younger than you and I feel the same way. Chorophyll Dec 2012 #24

An unarmed man didn't just walk into a police station and start shooting B2G Dec 2012 #25