Reply #163: But dangerous 'things' are mandatory in the classroom. [View All]

We need all kinds of dangerous 'things' in the classroom.

Acids, bases, solvents, bunsen burners spewing flammable gas. Boiling liquids. Explosion hazards. Carcinogens are needed. Biohazazds are a must.

Chemicals capable of killing an entire classroom are also completely necessary in that classroom.

Got to have scalpels, saws, lasers, lathes, hydraulic presses, high voltage, huge tanks of oxygen and of acetylene.

If you want to get away from the dangerous 'things', you can't even go outside- there's people walking around with heavy wooden skull crushers (some folks call them 'bats').

What made you think that guns are the only dangerous thing on campus?

Got to have a fire extinguisher in the classroom... but maybe not, since fire doesn't 'belong' on campus.

Heart problems don't 'belong' on campus, so neither does the AED.

Does the fact that a person does not want bad things to happen really justify depriving the student body of the 'things' they need to cope with those bad situations?

If you deprive students of dangerous things, don't you also deprive them of chemistry, physics, engineering?

But if students CAN be trusted to use hydrofluoric acid properly, why can't they be trusted to use a gun properly?