Reply to Should we keep armed guards at schools?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Should we keep armed guards at schools?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the car vs. gun argument. Sure both have dangers. We get that. But the car has the purpose of transporting you from pt. A to pt. B -- and in exchange for that transport, you take on the dangers. (Same with lots of things -- meds can have side effects but you weigh the benefit of the med vs. the dangers and decide that it is better to take that penicillin than to just let strep spread.)

What is the purpose of a gun, exactly? Isn't the purpose to kill or is there some other defined benefit I'm not seeing; as far as I know guns were developed for wars/militias. And don't give me the hunting argument, this is not a community where you need to hunt a deer in order to have meat for the season -- these kids' moms are waltzing out to Whole Foods 3x/wk for organic everything. So you're taking on the dangers of guns in schools -- esp assault rifles -- for what purpose or benefit exactly? Please -- explain it to me. I really want to understand the analogy.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics