Florida Teachers Can What?

[Roli]

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Tragic.

I honestly don't think it's as black and white as giving teachers guns in schools. Where are they going to keep those guns? Who is going to train them? How many of them are prepared to grab a gun and go towards an armed assailant?

In the army it takes years of training to combat natural instincts to run away in those situations, and the army is full of people who want to be there....

Anyway I like what Carol Dweck says about Columbine in her book Mindset, something along the lines of we have to stop looking at these kids as "misfits" and more as bullied individuals with access to firearms. If we can cut out the culture of bullying in this intense manner, then we can look to eradicating kids wanting to shoot up their schools.

I feel for those parents man, real horrible tragedy.

 

[Deleted50669]

I'm interested in this... Are there alternatives beyond homeschooling that I am missing? This might be a fascinating discussion for its own thread.

What about Montessori schools?

 

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[Longinus]

I've added a poll with a hypothetical...

You're in a movie theater and a lunatic with a pistol decides to shoot up the place. He has multiple clips.

Would you rather be in a movie theater in Toronto Canada?

Or in Dallas Texas?

For me, the answer is a no brainer. I want to be in Dallas because I'm sure one of my fellow citizens will be there to help stop it. In Canada, you'll be dead before help arrives.

I agree with your opinion.

But can somebody explain why I have never heard about a shooting being stopped by other citizen carrying guns? Were there situations like that or do we (gunless Eurokids) simply never hear from it?

 

[MHP368]

can somebody explain why I have never heard about a shooting being stopped by other citizen carrying guns? Were there situations like that or do we (gunless Eurokids) simply never hear from it?

Ive read about a few , for one the body counts lower so it doesnt get clicks

Honestly though "good guy with a gun" is a dumb myth , unless they arm the teachers and have them hitting the shooting range a few tines a month theyll just as likely shoot students as an assailant when SHTF , adrenaline and a real target tointing back at you tends to mesd your aim up.

Hrll didnt they have an armed cop at one of the shootings and the guy just rode a golf cart around and told 911 a play by play?

Does a teacher who takes a bullet for a kid get a purple heart and a pension? Because teachers have families too and the calculus on engaging a school shooter probably changes quite a bit when its your a$$ on the line

I say you take the "school" out of the equation , our culture surrounding guns and violence isnt going to change anytime soon , and "mental health" is another non starter (tons of these shooters never had any run ins with police or mental health proffesionals or anyone that could "catch it early")

 

[MHP368]

Do you own any guns? Do you frequent the gun range? Do you know remotely what it is like to shoot a gun? It sounds like CNN coming out of your mouth here.

Yeh , I have 3 handguns a shotgun and a weird little 22

You ever read these articles about the police eho shoot everything but the target? Those are trained gun users who arent keeping up with training by going to gun ranges regularly.

So what , we arm the teachers and require gun range training often enough to make them an actual viable deterent? Seems a terrible convoluted way to make a square peg fit in a round hole. I think its much more practical and cost saving (not to mention beneficial for actual education) to just reform our school system and shutter the damn things.

Take the school out of school shootings so we only have to fear malls and retail shops and post offices and movie theaters and churches. Lol (I joke but im in arizona where I could actually expect in any of those places that a high possibility exists of the noble "good guy with a gun" existing , and wr dont have to pay them extra or enforce gun range training , we do that for fun)

 

[Longinus]

Venezuela lost the right to own firearms because socialist progressivist agenda, now the government mows them down in the street while they beg for food. Germany lost the right to own firearms because socialist progressivist agendas and people were rounded up and killed in camps. Cambodia......
Cuba.... see where this is going? For some reason socialists need to take away firearms to enforce their "values" on the masses. When people start saying you need less firearms in society is the perfect time to get more into society legally.

This is often used as an argument, but must gun-free countries don't have a gov shooting on their citizen, far from it even. Don't get me wrong, I agree with your standpoint. But the argument is out of proportion.

 

[MHP368]

poll isn't really "fair" in the first place. It's more of a "push poll" that is clearly worded to encourage one answer over another.

Actually I answered toronto because I know in a shooting id probably get shot and not die. I was thinking about better healthcare outcome and cost (technically the best er to end up with if shot is in Philadelphia if memory serves just based on how oftenthe doctors deal with shootings)
It didnt occur to me that the poll was asking about "good guy with a gun" factor until you folks started discussing it lol

 

[Kak]

Yeh , I have 3 handguns a shotgun and a weird little 22

You ever read these articles about the police eho shoot everything but the target? Those are trained gun users who arent keeping up with training by going to gun ranges regularly.

So what , we arm the teachers and require gun range training often enough to make them an actual viable deterent? Seems a terrible convoluted way to make a square peg fit in a round hole. I think its much more practical and cost saving (not to mention beneficial for actual education) to just reform our school system and shutter the damn things.

Take the school out of school shootings so we only have to fear malls and retail shops and post offices and movie theaters and churches. Lol (I joke but im in arizona where I could actually expect in any of those places that a high possibility exists of the noble "good guy with a gun" existing , and wr dont have to pay them extra or enforce gun range training , we do that for fun)

In my extensive experience with firearms... you are either proficient or not. I haven't been to the range in 6 months, but when I do go, I will do well. My wife will do well. We handle firearms daily.

Those cops you speak of? It is true and it is reprehensible. Makes just about as much sense as a 400 pound cop. Agreed.

I don't know why that happens, but some people just do the bare minimum to get by. They must be in it for the job, not to do the job well.

My take, folks that choose to carry take it really seriously. My mother, we took her to the range 10 times. She never operated in a fully proficient manner. She shouldn't carry... And she doesn't... Why? Because not being proficient scares her.

Remember this is a serious thing. The first day I strapped a loaded gun on my hip and went into public was a huge responsibility. I took and still take it very seriously.

Now... I am losing faith in humanity a bit. Should some of these retards be buying firearms? No. Should they be allowed to? Probably not but you can't draw that line. We are trying to make things equal again for people that are unequal.

I do like what @G-Man had to say. The second amendment might save the dirt we call home from some pretty messed up stuff in the future... But who am I kidding they will just take our guns first and half of people will cheer.

 

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[Longinus]

They are a good example of a once prosperous democracy that turned to progressivist socialism relatively recently.

Germany is another example of a country that confiscated the privately owned firearms before their Nazi Reich. We know how that turned out.

There were both industrialized nations with wealth and opportunity. That said, we need to come to one of the two following conclusions from these examples to reconcile it to our beliefs:

-We are better than the Venezuelans and Germans and they are bad or stupid or bigoted people.
Or
-A voting majority of humans can fall susceptible to bad political ideas that lead down a really bad path.

They are 2 examples vs tons of examples where govs are not shooting at the citizen (like almost all of Europe nowadays).

 

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[Kak]

They are 2 examples vs tons of examples where govs are not shooting at the citizen (like almost all of Europe nowadays).

Agreed. Totally understand, but political instability does happen in unlikely places. Just because it is stable now doesn't mean it will stay that way.

To argue otherwise would be to argue that Germans and Venezuelans just had something wrong with them.

"We (insert nationality here)s would never support such a thing."

Yeah right...I bet the Venezuelans said the same thing about the Germans.

 

[MHP368]

They must be in it for the job, not to do the job well.

Right and to get us back on topic for I fear we have veered away this is exactly why arming teachers is such an absurd answer. Only in "kindergarten cop" does a teacher with 5 year olds make a great candidate as a school shooting hero.

And lets lets rem that simply arming the teachers was a concession to the actual cost of having an armed guard present during school hours (im im s some schools do this right now)

They want the teachers , who got into teaching in order to teach. To not only double as parents and counselors and disciplinarians and all the other hats they wear but now be fearless warriors and good marksmen?

Im Sure the existing shortage of teachers and high turnover won't be effected at all. Oh! And now the classroom has a loaded gun in it so the would be shooter doesnt even have to get passed the metal detector just overpower one teacher. I know all my middle and highschool teachers were trained martial artists who did powerlifting as a hobby so no worries here.

Frankly this idea stinks. Its absurd that this is bring framed as a solution.

 

[Roli]

You won't get shot by the police, but you 100% will get arrested.

Man Killed by Police at Alabama Mall Was a ‘Good Guy With a Gun,

‘Good guy with a gun’ comes to rescue; police kill him

 

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[Roli]

Everyone who hates firearms, has zero experience with firearms.

What about the mother of a toddler who shot his father by accident? What about someone paralysed or who has had a loved one taken away by guns? These people have experience, and they hate firearms.

However if you said everyone in the UK or non gun carrying country has zero experience with firearms, you still wouldn't be right, but you'd be closer to the truth.

@Roli, the police are some of the poorest shooters I have ever met. Nearly every single police officer that I have come across at the range was an arrogant, cocky SOB who could hardly handle his firearm.

Okay, not sure is supposed to prove, but it's interesting.

People also take stats completely out of context.

Of course they do, however some stats you cannot massage, like how many people get shot by their own guns, or by young children who have somehow gained access to their firearms.

in the UK there is acid attacks. But that is all ok because it is not firearm crime, right?

Nobody said it was okay, that's why they made a special law just for that, after a couple of people getting very long sentences the trend seemed to die before it had begun.

How about the new trend of renting or stealing a large truck and plowing it into a crowd of people? How do we address that?

As far as I'm aware this has happened in Europe a couple of times in the last 3-4 years, I'd hardly call that a trend.

As for addressing it, your guess is as good as mine. Though what this has to do with arming teachers I have no idea.

 

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[Dianne Cohen]

I'm normally not a political person, but I'm sorry, I have to say something about this. This is probably the most poorly thought-out policy I've ever seen. I can't even believe this is real.

Florida teachers can arm themselves under new gun bill - Reuters

Think about the risks. A teacher leaves a gun unattended. A teacher is harassed and looses their temper. The list goes on and on. I don't see how this won't end horribly.

I am 100 percent with you. My daughter goes to a Broward County school which is the county next to Miami Dade. In no way or form do I want to see my daughter in class with any form of a weapon. It is bad enough that we have to have so much security and active shooter drills.

btw...Broward County schools are highly against this policy and are trying to get everyone to get involved.

 

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[Kak]

I am 100 percent with you. My daughter goes to a Broward County school which is the county next to Miami Dade. In no way or form do I want to see my daughter in class with any form of a weapon. It is bad enough that we have to have so much security and active shooter drills.

btw...Broward County schools are highly against this policy and are trying to get everyone to get involved.

I guess you missed the rest of the discussion. @404profound doesn't agree with you any more.

 

[Deleted50669]

I am 100 percent with you. My daughter goes to a Broward County school which is the county next to Miami Dade. In no way or form do I want to see my daughter in class with any form of a weapon. It is bad enough that we have to have so much security and active shooter drills.

btw...Broward County schools are highly against this policy and are trying to get everyone to get involved.

As @Kak said, I've had to reconsider this. I still acknowledge the risk of teachers having guns from a psychological perspective (e.g., is there enough psychological screening that goes into hiring teachers?). However, it is true that if an assailant were to enter the room, the odds of catastrophe would be much higher if teachers are unarmed. If deciding whether or not to arm teachers is our only solution, there is no perfect solution. I've always thought guns should be manufactured with a tracking chip that maps back to the perimeter of any school, so if a gun approaches school grounds it automatically alerts authorities, or can lock down the school systematically. But we are decades away from that level of maturity in infrastructure security.

 

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