Mass shootings

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(02-23-2018, 04:36 PM)GMDino Wrote: Because it was passed off as an example of you feeling better being armed,  

If I was deployed with a branch of the service I'd sure feel better being armed too.  

To throw that in in a discussion about arming teachers is a red herring.

Because...


Sure.  Some might feel better in lots of different ways.  Like having adequate protection in the form of bulletproof windows or fewer students so they could give the ones that seem to need  help more help.



"right"?

Is the argument going to be that NOT allowing teachers to carry guns on the job is a violation of their right to bear arms?

Because that is a far cry from allowing it.

And let me back up a bit and say I have not come down as strictly opposed to the idea.  I have played devil's advocate on how it would be implemented and paid for.

Maybe 1 or 2 or 8 armed teachers would work in some situations...maybe not in others.

There was an armed man in Florida.  He didn't do anything.

Nope, the right (morally good, justified, or acceptable) to carry a weapon in this situation has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment

Hell, I'm for whatever allows our educators to feel more comfortable and to care for those under their charge


I'm not sure how it falls in the Red Herring category. As I said, I wish we could ask those brave educators would they have liked to have had something other than their bodies to protect the children that they so heroically did.