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Yes, which completely ignores the difference between a person who has had this situation forced on them (A teacher or school administrator) and someone who has
by drugstorecowboy 4y ago
Yes, which completely ignores the difference between a person who has had this situation forced on them (A teacher or school administrator) and someone who has to choose to enter it.
I think it might be quite a bit easier to confront a shooter when its obvious that doing nothing will result in your death. In this situation in particular I can't imagine how armed teachers would have made it any worse, but can certainly imagine it making it better.
- pkulak 4y agoI can absolutely imagine how a firefight between a bunch of people with no training makes things worse. I can also imagine dozens of ways arming teachers makes things worse for that 10 9s of time where there's not an active school shooter.
- Apocryphon 4y agoWhat if an armed teacher becomes the active shooter?
- MandieD 4y agoOr more likely: an angry teenage boy manages to get the gun off an armed teacher?
- drugstorecowboy 4y agoAnd what exactly would stop that from happening now? Do you really believe the only thing stopping a teacher from a rampage is the fact that its illegal for them to have a gun on campus?
- Apocryphon 4y agoWell, the increased availability of guns and the further normalization of guns everywhere would probably increase the chances over the status quo.
- lamp987 4y agoarmed students
- bitwize 4y agoOr, we could mitigate the active shooter problem by making guns less easily available. Bring back the assault weapons ban and strict licensure for all other firearms and ammunition.