Enough about Britain. Let’s have some news from the U.S., because there’s more than enough lunacy there to keep us bitterly amused. I know, I know, it’s a serious subject, but bear with me.
You’ve heard that the solution to school shootings is to arm teachers? Well, let’s check in on what happens when teachers are armed:
In Utah, a teacher shot herself in the leg in an elementary school toilet–or rest room, as we say in the U.S., because we may allow guns in our schools but we don’t allow loose talk about toilets. That sort of language reminds us of what we do with them–which is, generally, not shoot ourselves but get ride of bodily waste products (she said delicately). Or, to prove that I really would say shit if I had a mouthful, we shit and we pee.
The teacher had completed a gun safety course (which I’m guessing wasn’t long enough) and, you’ll be relieved to learn, was carrying the gun legally.
In Idaho, a professor shot himself in the foot while walking across campus.
In Minnesota, a third-grader reached over to a police officer’s holster and pulled the trigger on his (unless it was her–the officer was in possession of a gun but not of a pronoun). Should we start over? The kid shot the cop’s handgun. While it was in its holster and the cop was talking to the kids. The bullet went into the floor without passing through any flesh on the way. Likewise it did not pass Go or collect two hundred dollars. And if you’re a complete outsider to American (and I believe general English-speaking) culture, that’s an irrelevant reference to a board game.
Has Monopoly been translated into other languages and foisted off on the rest of the world?
And in Pennsylvania, a teacher in a small Christian school with one toilet that’s used by both staff and teachers put her handgun on the toilet tank while she used the restroom and then left without it. Four kids between the ages of six and eight used the, um, facilities before one of them reported it to his parents, who told a teacher, who presumably got it out of there safely.
So yes, arm the teachers. That’ll keep the kids safe.
Enlightening post
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That was funny as hell Ellen. I am a firearm owner but reluctant to have teachers armed as I do not believe it has been well thought out, however our Constitution gives us a right to keep and bear arms and even be stupid with them. Nothing we can do about stupid, that is forever, but ignorance we can educate. Not sure education would be of much benifit to those teachers, maybe they lost their licenses over their stupidity.
I guess we can find all kinds of stupid but here it is stupid to not be armed to defend ones self, and family. We are loaded with predators who have guns as you can note and i for one refuse to be disarmed against all the stupid people who do stupid things. Ergo, pointing out three stupid acts does not preclude the right to keep and bear arms. There are far more episodes involving firearms which strongly suggest, imply, warrrent the need to be armed. I regret that Brittians have been disarmed. It is a shame.
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Yup, it’s tragic. The country’s far safer and overwhelmingly wants to leave the gun situation as it is.
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Ellen, that is what you have to expect from gun owners. You have to have grown up with them or have had a sudden understanding that you instantly just have to have one, or two, or three. I started out just wanting one. A shotgun for home defense and its versitility for hunting from dear to birds of a feather. I have a sever time comprehending anti-gun persons. I wish to be open minded but the argument against them just does not hold water for me. Their rational is so full of holes that I cant stand it.
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By way of background: I have owned a gun, although I sold it long ago. I’m not completely against them. But I value safety above guns, which is pretty much what some of the school kids are saying these days. Britain doesn’t ban guns, but it does put restrictions on them, just as it does on driving cars. It’s far a safer place than the U.S., and the British are heavily in favor of the way they deal with guns and baffled by the American approach. I’m basing that both on the people I talk to and polls I’ve seen.
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I think this says it all:
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I’ll have to check this out later, when the sound won’t be a menace to the world at large. But these days Archie Bunker starts to look almost forward thinking.
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Ha, ha, ha. That was funny as it was intended to be. He is an actor, a comedian. It is sad to believe someone with half a brain would try to use this as an example of anything other than comedy. Sad, just simply sad along with being deplorable.
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You confirm my view on arming teachers with solid sources ! I taught for 31 years – some in a junior high school, In addition to such examples as you cited, there would also be terrific temptation to a) shoot the principal/superintendent/curriculum director or b) the kid in the back of the bus who has given you the finger as you stand out on bus duty EVERY SINGLE DAY !
Do NOT arm the teachers ! Or the administrators (see above) OR the cooks, custodians, bus drivers…
It also seems there WAS an armed sheriff’s deputy on duty at Parkland. The school’s security cameras showed him hiding behind a light pole in the parking lot.
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Exactly. Even seasoned soldiers are capable of freezing when under fire. People who’ve never faced armed combat? Forget it.
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Here in the US even policemen speak out vocally against the “good guy with a gun theory”.
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It has to be terrifying to do their job not knowing who’s going to turn out to be heavily armed.
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Plus the sheer lunacy in those proposals [including legitimizing concealed carry] which make for even more dangers to the law enforcement people: instead of being able to immediately react with (deadly) force, they now first have to determine if the person wielding a gun is a good or a bad guy.
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I grew up in an age where any TV-watching kid knew that the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore black ones. Maybe they thnk it’s still that simple.
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Have to like your post. Your points are points of extended reality. How many teachers etc., would love to shoot an administrator. I always hated them because they treated us less than a junior high student, in fact, I think that is exactly what they thought of us and even less at times.
Another reason to not arm teachers etc., is the LEO may not be able to sepearate the teacher from the shooter????
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When I was in elementary school, a couple of kids had some sort of high-end firework rocket. They were suspended. Now we want to arm teachers. Some of the teachers I’ve known over the years are as scary as any student. I really hope this time the lawmakers get the message. (I’d also like perpetually sunny skies in Michigan.)
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The political winds will shift eventually. The problem with that prediction is that I’m not saying when. But allow me to suggest that you’ll need a little rain now and then. Maybe overnight?
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I suppose it can rain at night. :)
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Good decision.
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I can concur with your comment. Spent 35 years teaching in special education? Knew a lot of teachers that could fit into questionable emotional stability.
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Unfortunately true.
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James Corden spoke about the recent school mass-shooting on the CBS Late Late Show. The blurb to the YouTube clip of his comments says “James looks at measures other countries have taken to curb gun violence and wonders why Americans continue to refuse to make any changes.”
I didn’t watch the clip, but I read a sample of the (2,534) comments posted on the YouTube page and, as a UK citizen, I was saddened to see the outrage of US viewers who disagreed with what James had said. And most of the commenters who don’t live in the US were (like me) utterly bewildered as to why anyone would want to fix the problem by giving teachers guns, and why the pro-gun people refuse to accept that what other countries have done – strictly control the ownership of guns – actually works.
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Periodically, some British friend will ask us to explain the American thing about guns. The best I’ve been able to do is just say, “We’re insane on the subject.” It doesn’t explain much, but neither does anything I’ve been able to say. Except–well, yes, I do talk about the NRA and its political donations. That explains a lot.
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no it dosent. you are just kidding yourself.
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The whole thing is incomprehensible to me and to most people I know.
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I know, I know. Every so often, someone will ask me to explain it. I can’t say they’ve understood it any better after talking to me.
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To be honest, I don’t think I want to understand it.
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Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
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Exactly.
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Maybe, just and only maybe mind you, the soft wind of change is stirring in the air. Those marching kids, teenagers really, young people really really, seem to be having an impact, big companies are beginning to withdraw their support from the NRA. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/companies-cut-ties-nra-after-customer-backlash-n850686
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I’m watching with hope.
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So am I, I loved my short time in America and have a good friend out there, it would be fab to have it come to it’s senses on this.
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…and on a few other topics I could list.
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Yes, here too, but evolution is a slow process, and I think we are a long way from being where we want to be, at least us good guys are.
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I was about to agree, then thought I should add, lest we get too smug (and I admit, smug does feel kind of good), that I’ve come to believe good and bad aren’t as clearly divided as they would be if convenience were any guide.
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Ergo the problem. This is also very, very sad.
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I keep trying to convince myself that surely the pendulum must swing at some point. The difficult question is WHEN? Typically the Donald suggested it was all a mental health issue and then you realize this administration has drastically cut funding. Makes you wonder just what it is they’re trying to achieve. I remember back to the sunny days of Reagan (in retrospect) and his funding cuts to mental health services. You could see it increase the homeless (oops, the rough dresser, was it?) population pretty quick and that was while he was just governor of California. sigh
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Rough sleepers. And yes, in hindsight some of the backward looking politicians do look pretty forward thinking today.
I’m hopeful about what the high school students are doing. The problem is that they have no organization to help keep this together, so it may well be a blast of energy and then everyone goes back to business as usual. On the other hand, it could be a turning point. Let’s hope.
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Well, they probably don’t dress very smooth either. 😉
Perhaps the difference this time is that the kids seem riled up and willing to make a fuss. Too soon to tell if this is a turning point, but there have been some minor bills with baby steps toward some restrictions. If I remember right even Florida raised the age of access to the AK-whatever’s been used in so many of these shootings. Hopefully it’s a start with more to come.
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…and some companies are withdrawing their support, which says they think the tide’s turning.
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Arming teachers or other school staff is just about the dumbest idea I have heard—and since Trump somehow became President we have heard some of the dumbest (and most illiterate) ideas ever spoken by a human (okay, I may be giving him more credit here than warranted). And since mass-shootings are taking place in churches, concerts, stadiums, and theaters, the only logical next step is to also arm ministers and priests, musicians, athletes, and all of their respective audiences and fans … oh, and don’t forget the guy selling popcorn at the concession stand. Sadly, this is exactly what the NRA wants. It’s time for a bit of sanity to surface here in America—and it might just be led by high-school students. Let’s hope so!
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For the first time in ages, I am hopeful about this. But your suggestion that we arm drug-addled rock musicians is a great one.
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Where was the “good guy with a gun” here?! :D According to NRA-logic, that could have been prvented if she only had had a secong gun and shoot the first gun out of her hand! I fully well know that this is absurd, but so is the NRA’s [and Trump’s] argument.
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Of course: A left-hand gun to protect the world from what the right-hand gun might do. Brilliant!
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Ludicrous, the idea of arming teachers Ellen, not your post. And amusing this issue is not. I’m not sure why so many people in this country seem to think that laws made when folks were settling the wild west and other parts are now as firmly unchangeable as those stone commandments that the same gun toting masses try to claim they follow to the letter. This whole thing goes well beyond insanity, but I’m not sure there are words for that, unless bat-shit crazy qualifies.
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Bat-shit crazy sounds like a reasonable diagnosis to me.
I read a article last night that argued the Second Amendment was written to protect the southern militias–later known as patrollers–that helped prevent slaves from fleeing. I can’t verify its accuracy, but it’s well argued and convincing. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/13890-the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery
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Thanks for the link. Fascinating article. I may blog about it.
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Send me a link if you do.
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There does seem to be some confusion between amendments and commandments.
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A good point. And an inspired way to put it.
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Well, one of our local politicians here in Fredericksburg/TX, seems to believe bearing guns is a commandment [the 11th, perhaps?] He, in a recent letter-to-the-editor, called the 2nd amendment a God given right!
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Uh huh. Guns were well known and widely used in biblical times.
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I’m not overly religious, but I consider such a statement pure blasphemy. Like those in the Judge Moore case, who justified having sex with underage girls by referring to Mary and Joseph.
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He did? These people really have no shame, do they?
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They don’t even know the word!
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Must we remind him about the 1st Commandment?
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My best guess is that his religion is very much pick and choose, but it might be worth a try.
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Or pick and abuse. ;) At least, he’s getting the youth of America focused. He’s got some on his side but Ï’m sure he was expecting so many that aren’t starting to take action.
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And what about “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God(, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name)”, “You shall not murder”, and “You shall not give false testimony( against your neighbor).”?
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The number of bible verses I could quote would fit comfortably in a teacup, but my partner, who was raised Southern Methodist, has been known to say that even the devil can quote to bible to his own purposes. So yeah, there’s a lot of picking and choosing going on there.
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I like your partner’s saying. :)
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So awful here right now! To be blunt, the crap that comes out of our leaders’ mouths is sickening. I have hope that the kids will organize and be loud and vote, when they are able to do so.
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I’ve been wondering if what they’re doing may not be the beginning of something powerful and new.
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Oh, I hope so!
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This is the kind of ideas you get when you don’t have basic intelligence tests for key positions…like President.
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That is a thought.
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Of course, as I look at the snippet of my comment, I meant “these are” 🙂
Some of the statements that come out of politicians’ mouths just make me sad. We’ve elected so many stupid people. What does that say about the majority of us?
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It’s so easy to hit the Send button–we all do it.
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Unfortunately, this stupidity is way more wide-spread than in our president only.
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Too true. Which is part of the reason the man got elected.
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I think most of the world looks on with bewilderment at the whole fiasco… it’s like a runaway train…
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Every so often, someone over here asks to me to explain the national fascination with guns. I fail.
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why on earth someone would suggest it’s a good idea to arm teachers is totally beyond me.
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Ah, because it takes the national conversation in a less useful direction.
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I spent 20 years in the military and I’m used to being around people who carried weapons in the line of duty but armed teachers would scare me.
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You’re a wise man.
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Every single “good guy with a gun” scares the shit out of me.
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Me too–although they’re mercifully rare over here. So rare that stabbings make the headlines.
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Also, generally, usually, stereotypically, the kind of people who want to teach do not generally, usually, stereotypically, line up with those who want to be armed at work. Generally. I’m just sayin.
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And those who do aren’t necessarily people who should be armed.
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Good points all the way around, Ellen. A gun in my hands to protect my preschoolers? Beyond frightening.
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People who think it’s a good idea have been watching too many movies and talking to too few teachers.
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Exactly!
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I’m just thankful that I was a teacher in Canada. The stupidity of Trump is truly astounding.
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And he continues to surpass himself.
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Why do teachers have to pick up the tab for so many of society’s failings? I was a teacher once. I was mightly glad that corporal punishment had been done away with, what kind of role model are you that you enforce your rule with violence? Imagine carrying a gun, in a classroom?! That’s not what the vast majority of teachers went into teaching for. USA should follow Australia and tighten gun laws. No one needs a semi-automatic gun (only soldiers, not civilians).
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I taught. There were days when I forgot to lock my purse in the file cabinet. There were days when I didn’t have chalk because I’d forgotten to purchase any and the school didn’t provide it. There were days when one of my students took out his anger at his parents on us by throwing desks across the room. When I hear “arm teachers” I remember those hectic, scary, impoverished days and cry.
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Beautifully said.
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Its an interesting, strange, and troubling time to have School age children in America.
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Indeed.
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Why stop at arming teachers. Armed custodians can reduce the litter problem, and armed cafeteria workers can reduce the number of complaints about school lunch food. Armed bus drivers can take care of any unruly kids and road rage issues. And armed principals can show all of them how to avoid accidental leg shooting.
Next week – we’ll learn how tanks can not only be decorative, but also serve as playground equipment to climb on……..
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You’re a genius. Can’t we put you to some larger use than just blogging?
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Thanks for finding the humor in an otherwise depressing situation. As an expat American (YAY!) who’s lived abroad on 4 continents over the past 15 years, I must admit that the view from afar of American culture is that it simply continues to become more absurd with each passing year. And of all the ironies and absurdities, the gun culture takes the cake (and a bitter tasting one it is!). At this point, finding humor in an otherwise morose situation is the only way I can deal with the pain it brings up inside after each deadly incident. What a bunch of ‘losers’ (to quote 45) we have representing the US population in Washington, DC, especially the ‘tremendously’ intelligent CEO of USA Inc. Laugh, chuckle, gasp, cry…
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Yup, all that. I did hesitate to make jokes about this, but–yes: laugh, chuckle, gasp, cry.
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Great thoughts – thanks. Honestly, putting professional tools (like guns) in unqualified hands will always have more negative consequences. Sometimes trees fall on roads – but no one would suggest selling cars with chain saws in the trunk so the “common motorist” will always be prepared. Putting lethal firepower in the hands of more people who aren’t going to invest the time and learning and practice to be proficient is reckless.
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I could either agree totally or advocate mounting chainsaws on the front of cars so the common motorist won’t have the inconvenience of getting out of the car and opening the trunk. Hmmm. Tough call. Can I get back to you on it?
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Yes! Chainsaw cars makes me think of Mad Max haha
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Humour is how I find I can cope with the wild absurdities of much of what goes on nowadays, but if I had school-age children in the USA I think pure unadulterated rage would be my only response.
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That or terror. Or some combination of the two.
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Ok, explain this to me like I’m a 5-year-old: there are mass shootings in schools and you want to solve the problem, so you decide to arm teachers. And you’ll have even more guns in schools. And probably more shootings, accidental or otherwise. How is this a good idea??
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The only way I could explain that–either to you or to myself–is to drug myself into near-insensibility. Then I’d say, “Your teacher’s going to protect you.” Then I’m not going to tell you how unlikely your teacher is to be able to do that, not having had combat experience. And I’m not going to tell you how hard it is to hit one specific target in a roomful of panicked 5-year-olds.
A 5-year-old just might believe that. No adult should.
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#guncontrol NOW
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History has shown us that more violence never decreases violence. My heart aches for the families that have lost loved ones and I look forward to the time when God will rid this world of so much violence. Psalm 72:14 says, “From oppression and from violence he will rescue them, And their blood will be precious in his eyes.” With all of the depression and mental health issues prevalent in children and adults, arming teachers would only increase the number of mass shootings.
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I was about to say that arming teachers is the craziest idea I’ve heard in years, but we live in a time of crazy ideas. Still, it’s up there with the nuttiest of them.
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I remember playing Monopoly with the streets taken from Vienna, Austria. Obviously my dad bought it there. I’m quite certain Italians have their own. As for the guns, I’m delirious that there are no holes in street signs where I live. But there was an ugly racist shooting just recently in Macerata three hours from me.
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The racist attacks around Europe really worry me. Where on earth are we headed?
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Especially since here in Italy, as Dennis Hopper not merely hints at in True Romance, the skin tone is so dark for a reason. I liked a study of the American faces in the future I once saw. A lovely blend-a-med.
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Having spent most of my life in the U.S., I’m used to racism being linked to skin tone, so it’s been, um, informative to have lived in Britain when the racism (to use the word loosely) of the moment included Poles. And now, of course, immigrants of all shades.
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Spoken like some one who has no idea what freedom is. I can walk Out My Backdoor and shoot anytime I want, as much as I want. I can feed my family with Wild game, taken with my legally purchased firearm. And I can use that firearm to protect me and mine should the need arise. If you’re ever attacked I sincerely hope the police get there in time, but the odds are against it. Yes, we have a different attitude about guns here. It’s because we possess a little thing called freedom and would like to keep it….
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The odds of being attacked here are much smaller, and people hunt here too. And consider themselves to be free.
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You can’t even carry a knife, let alone a gun. Hard to know what you are missing if you never had it.
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The interesting thing is that it’s a far safer country. Could there be a connection?
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The places with the most violent crime in the us also have some of the toughest gun laws. And the data to back up the claim that the UK is safer is debatable. The way crimes are tallied seems to be completely different between the two countries, making any valid comparison difficult.
But it does seem clear that your violent crime rate has risen significantly since handguns were banned. Could there be a connection? At any rate, the rise in violent behavior here and there is not just about guns. The family unit has broken down and religion is out of style. We are seeing the results of every man being a god unto himself, IMO.
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Homicide rates seem to have peaked in England and Wales in 2004, and in 2014 were below the 1997 level, which is when handguns were banned. http://www.blog.murdermap.co.uk/statistics/homicide-in-england-and-wales-1898-to-2012/. You’ll find that Britain–either in spite of having an established church or possibly because of it–isn’t a particularly religious country. My impression, and that of many people who talk to me about it, is that it’s considerably less religious than the U.S. I wouldn’t say the family unit has broken down, either here or in the U.S.–that’s another subject we’ll just have to disagree on–but it’s changing in both places, in very much the same ways.
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The murder rates from the UK are not accurate, because only convictions are counted. How many murders go unsolved? What is the common denominator between almost all mass murderers? No father in the home. That’s not the only factor, often misuse of overuse of prescription drugs is involved. But, we need to open our eyes and start calling evil evil and not just dysfunction. At any rate, less guns in the hands of good people solves nothing. I’m all for arming teachers who volunteer for training and are willing.
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You’ll find that homicides are calculated by the Office for National Statistics without reference to convictions: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2015/chapter2homicide
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And since ‘every man thinks he’s a god unto himself,’ speaks volumes about why men (and boys) should not be trusted with the power of most contemporary fire arms. The human mind is simply too fragile to be trusted with that kind of power.
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In my state Alone we have approximately 600000 Hunters. In 2016 there were Zero hunting related deaths.
Of course many will say one death ever is too many. But then that would mean we have to do away with cars which cause far more deaths. Some people want to live in a bubble and have no freedom I guess. And pretend that the government is going to protect them. I prefer to live in the real world.
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Hunting-related deaths aren’t the ones the parents of school childen loose sleep over, my friend. That’s the real world too.
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But, the point is, here we have 600000 people walking around with guns each year. According to all the anti gunners on here, the woods should be littered with bodies from all of us who got ticked off and couldn’t control ourselves. Yes, we have to do more to keep guns from mentally messed up individuals, but statistically, bathtubs are more likely to kill you than mass shootings. Cell phones are more likely to kill you. People are dying in droves from heroin, People are dying from killing themselves, because we live in a consumer society whose only answer to the needs of man’s soul is more stuff. The problem isn’t guns. What do we do when someone breaks into our house? Even the most rabid anti gunner will call the police– a man or woman with a gun- to come help him. The problem is a lack of respect for others and a cheapening of values. And a lot of this, IMO, comes from the breaking down of the family. What does almost every mass shooter have in common? A lack of a strong father figure in his life.
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That’s not at all the argument that anti-gun people make.
About calling the cops: A friend here is a retired cop. They don’t, except in exceptional circumstances, carry guns here and in his opinion (sorry, I’m paraphrasing) carrying a gun has a negative impact on policing–everything you do in that situation is about protecting the gun, so situations escalate quickly. Would I call the police if my house got broken into? Yes. The people who’d show up would be unarmed and fully capable of handling the situation.
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“That’s not at all the argument that anti-gun people make.” It’s exactly the argument that has been made over and over in this discussion, that gun owners can’t be trusted with that much power. And yet we have thousands, no actually, Millions of hunters and gun owners Nationwide that do not go off the deep end and kill people.
“Fully capable of handling the situation”, lol, really? What’s he going to do, yell real loud at the perpetrator? His job is not to protect you, he just shows up to take down the details of the crime after it happens.
If I was to call policemen here I couldn’t expect them to arrive quicker than a half-hour if then. By that time but whatever was going to happen already happened.
But you wouldn’t care about that, because you don’t have a little thing called freedom, so you have no choice but put yourself at the mercy of your rulers.
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Sorry, friend, but the argument’s back to where we started. You don’t consider me free? I don’t feel the need to convince you and I doubt my arguments mean much to you any, so I’m calling it quits. I’ll say this much before I go: There are times when guns work and there are times when they don’t. They’re not the measure of freedom.
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If communities have a hard time retaining people in the teaching profession, imagine the exodus if you have to become a sharpshooter, too. I was about to make my usual statement that this kind of thing didn’t happen when I was in high school (1976) or even when my niece graduated from high school (2000) until I saw these statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#20th_century This mess has been going on for years. People who want unrestricted 2nd amendment rights love that law more than life itself.
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Especially when it’s someone else’s life.
Thanks for the link.
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Read my post “keeping students and schools safe” part 1 https://booksmarttutor.com/2018/03/22/keeping-students-and-schools-safe-part-1/
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I have, and I’m happy when people links to related posts, but you’ll find it works better if you contribute to the discussion instead of just saying, “Read my post.” Sorry if I sound like I’m coming down on you, but I can’t find a better way to say it.
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Sorry the first part must have got cut off. Didn’t mean to sound rude. Your post caught my eye. It’s interesting to hear the gun situation in different states. Just thought I would offer some insight from the Canadian side
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Much appreciated.
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You brits need to get your knives under control. Lock those knives away and less people will die. One thing people don’t seem to get is that we already have common sense gun laws. In most of the shootings, illegal guns are used anyway. Believing that evil people bent on murder are going to obey laws is just foolishness.
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I’m old enough to remember when guns were more strictly regulated in the U.S. Sure, there were illegal guns around, but the country wasn’t awash in high-powered weaponry. In fact, a lot of concern was about zip guns, homemade guns made from a car antenna if I understood the directions correctly. (No, I never did try making one, so my understanding of them may be a little hazy.) Worrying about them is a lot like the concern about knife crime in Britain: It’s not that either knives or zip guns can’t do damage, but compared to, oh, let’s say an AK-47 it holds the damage down to a less horrifying level.
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Actually, I think that’s a crock. A good sniper with a bolt action could take down far more people than then someone spraying the crowd with a so called assault rifle. A person with a couple pistols and extra clips can do just as much damage as with an AK, No one is using full autos for these shootings. Full autos are highly regulated. As far as homemade guns, the fact that you can now print a gun at home may make the whole gun control debate obsolete.
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There’s always a reason, isn’t there? Sorry, but that’s as unconvincing to me as my arguments are to you.
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