RE: Florida House Panel votes to arm teachers; Give 1 time $500 bonus for 132 hour course
February 28, 2018 at 3:37 pm
(February 28, 2018 at 2:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 28, 2018 at 2:18 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: Not it.
I have to wonder what percentage of people trained in combat arms (military, police, etc) - particularly those who have seen the elephant - think this is a good idea.
Can't speak to that, but I've read that cops in large cities hit what they shoot at about 18% of the time. Let's assume - in the fantasy world where people meant to teach geography are expected to be bodyguards - that these teachers turn out to be as accurate as professional, intensely trained cops. 82% of the shots they fire are going to go wild.
What a mind-numbingly stupid plan this is.
Boru
The weird thing with the arming teacher thing, is how happy everybody is to speak on behalf of all teachers. There are likely plenty of teachers who are hunters/national guard/veterans/gun enthusiasts who would like to take this responsibility. And unlike Joe the security guard, these people have already shown a willingness to die for the kids.
But in the end, it's about assessing the risk. Is the risk of a school mass shooting is so high, that you think it justifies arming all the teachers? I don't think so. The problem with arming teachers, is we're introducing 100,000+ guns into schools that if we left them as are would have been fine with 0.
If we had multiple daily school mass shootings like columbine/park, I'd want a ton of guns in the schools until we could confidently say criminals could not access guns.
But instead we have one every couple years in this mold. Probably better to just try and beef up gun laws a bit, and accept some kids getting shot as the way things go.
