RE: Florida House Panel votes to arm teachers; Give 1 time $500 bonus for 132 hour course
March 1, 2018 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2018 at 11:51 am by henryp.)
(March 1, 2018 at 11:20 am)Whateverist Wrote:(March 1, 2018 at 11:11 am)wallym Wrote: 1) You'd have to get all those guns you consider 'assault rifles' off the streets. Which is going to be tough, since there are already plenty of illegally owned 'assault rifles' on the streets, and the issue of resistance for legally owned 'assault rifles.'
2) If you hypothetically were able to remove all the 'assault rifles' from the country, we'll still have another school shooting. The kid will just be murdering people with a handgun or two.
So your objections are amount to 1) the problem is too difficult and 2) incremental improvement isn't worth doing. So you're saying what? Just stick to the status quo and buy the child size body bags in bulk?
I don't buy the premise that these styles of school shootings pose such a threat that buying body bags in bulk is quite necessary. When you talk about these, it's always columbine, sandyhook, and now Parkland. But that's 1999, 2012, 2018. I think media trickery has gotten people riled up a bit. Also, I think the solution of 'take away the guns' is popular, because a lot of people don't really want guns anyway, and people are real comfortable giving up other people's rights. (see abortion, gay marriage, gambling, etc...)
But if we pretend this is a really big threat for the sake of the argument, I think it has to be a bit of everything. You try to keep the guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them, and you at least consider some sort of resistance/strategy at the school should that fail. The complaint is teachers don't want guns, which is fine. But I'm guessing teachers would rather not have to use their bodies as meat shields to protect kids either.
If you just laser focus in on AR-15's and 3 day waiting periods or whatever, and then some kid kills 10 people with a couple hand guns, or an illegally obtained AR-15, you've let the kids down. Just like if you arm every teacher, but then do nothing to prevent wackos from getting whatever they want to shoot up a school, and they go in and kill some kids before best case scenario being stopped by a teacher. That's still some dead kids.
The reality is, it's 100% going to happen again. It's just a matter of lowering the frequency and lowering the damage caused.
