Donald Trump wants to arm teachers with guns

[Brian37]

Number Of Mass School Shootings In New Zealand (a country of less than 5 million people with 1.4 million firearms in private hands)

2000:  nil
2001: nil
2002:  nil
2003:  nil
2004:  nil
2005:  nil
2006:  nil
2007:  nil
2008:  nil
2009:  nil
2010:  nil
2011:  nil
2012:  nil
2013:  nil
2014:  nil
2015:  nil
2015:  nil
2017:  nil
2018 (year to date):  nil
2019 (projected):  nil

The above figures are confounding researchers, as New Zealanders are purported to have access to violent video games and violent films.  Even more puzzling is the fact that New Zealand has mentally unstable citizens, schools that do not resemble armed caps, and teachers who do not bring firearms into classrooms.

Boru

Part of the problem is not just the firearms but the sort of firearms and how they are perceived. In the US they are fetishized, elsewhere they are a tool for hunting. Its very strange and has the rest of the world perplexed.

BINGO!

If the nutters want to claim it isn't the object, I can agree with that, but it is the fetish of the object, literally to the psychology of giving human rights to the object. 

It isn't for the sane about becoming a 1 party fascist state. That is bullshit fear mongering perpetuated by the NRA leadership, and a money laundering racket paid for by the manufacturers to maintain and expand their market. A firearm is not a living human, and should not be put above public safety. What New Zealand and Australia don't have that far too many in America have, is an unhealthy obsession with firearms. 

Firearms are not banned in Australia, and despite what some might think, not even banned in Japan. But in those countries, they don't make them like candy or hand them out like candy, they have far better regulations to prevent them from ending up in the wrong hands.