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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That very teacher could save lives some day. Don’t be ridiculous.[/quote]

The odds are significantly higher that the kids will find out at some point that she has a gun and children being children, will find a way to sneak her gun and have an accidental injury.  There are far more home accidents where minors with access to guns get them and hurt themselves or others, that there are guns that are used to safely protect against active shooters.

Additionally, I'm not sure why having teachers who have only limited training in armed incident response would be better than trained security personnel, most of whom have military or police training in active shooter situations.  In many of recent school shootings, there was an armed guard in the school.  In the Parkland school case, there was an armed security guard, who did not enter the building and failed to stop the shooter.  In Marshall County Kentucky, there was an armed guard who was on premises, did respond, and did apprehend the shooter, albeit after 2 were dead and 21 injured.  The shooting at Ft Hood was on a military base where there were many armed military personnel.  The shooter was able to kill 3 people and 14 people were injured before the shooter took his own life.  Armed security with training is already on-site at many of these shooter locations and that has not been a deterrent not a prevention of loss of life.  There was an armed security guard at the Pulse nightclub.  This security guard was a current member of the Orlando police force with over 15 years experience.  He actually engaged the shooter, but his presence did not deter the shooter.  And before this brave officer and his fellow officers were able to stop the shooter, 49 were dead with over 50 injured.  I'm not sure why teachers with less training having weapons would be more of a deterrent or better defense against active shooters than trained security personnel on-site.  In virtually all of the shooting incidents, the active shooters were not stopped prior to the arrival of emergency personnel (police) arriving after being summoned by an on-site staff member or security guard.  The presence of armed opposition is not a deterrent nor is it a guarantee that there will be less injury or loss of life since the armed shooters are stopped after police arrive (with the exception of those who shoot themselves).  Without the deterrence factor, then having armed teachers only increases the risk of accidental injury or death without adding an effective deterrence of such cases.[/quote]

People like the PP will never agree with you.  In spite of the fact that facts and logic are on your side, it's just way too hard for people like them to read far enough to understand.  I mean, it's a whole paragraph of that evidence stuff, and that's just taxing to the small-brained.  [/quote]

And they'll just dismiss it as 'fake news' anyway. [/quote]

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