No, guns are dangerous even in the hands of trained people. Also, there is no way to know how someone will react in a live shooting incident especially in the case of people that aren't gun-ho (yes, a play on words).
If guards are dangerous then why do you and I pay for them? I'm not going to argue that they are immune from accidents or screwups or freezing when they are needed. Those things all happen. Yet we all still pay for armed guards one way or the other. Whether it is our sports venues or our politicians or the people who pick up the money from Taco Bell and bring it to the bank. Our rich and powerful send their children to schools with armed guards. For millennia human beings have guarded important things with weapons. Are you going to argue that we should not have armed guards? Yes or no?
This is a bullshit debate. Why the fu*k would you want IN AMERICA to have guns in schools? Guards in schools? How do you save people in churches? Night clubs? Outdoor concerts? What kind of country do you want to live in?
Until you get rid of 300,000,000 guns, then yes, let's protect stuff by the best means possible. I don't want us to have to protect our kids. I don't want to worry about my kids getting hit crossing the street. I don't want to worry about my kid drowning in a pool, eating a poisonous plant, or falling off a roof. Just because I don't WANT to protect my kids from something that I should not have to doesn't mean I don't want them protected. Please guard my kids. I have 3 little boys and I want them to be protected. I can't do it by crying about how shitty my country is.
Where everywhere people gather has armed guards? That's not a 1st world country.
I'm pretty sure we have armed guards in every 1st world country. Can you name a country that does not have armed guards? It sucks that there are evil people. We must be allowed to defend ourselves from them. To argue against it is unbelievable.
Do you want to live in a police state? The corruption and abuse would be uncontrollable. You might think you're at the top of the food chain and safe from a country like that but I assure you, the color of your eyes, the shape of your nose might be wrong... Well, good luck.
No way. I generally mistrust cops. I'm totally with you on this. Cops have too much legal and political protection to do whatever they want and get away with it. That has nothing to do with allowing a teacher to get trained, certified, and approved to protect kids.
Or is it just the kids you want to protect from mass shootings? Fu*k everyone else!
I'm literally posting in a thread about a high school shooting. The title is "Florida High School Shooting". We are talking about how to protect kids. Are you angry that I am proposing methods to protect kids? I can propose methods to protect everybody else, too. I think we need to end the war on drugs, which is responsible for 30-60% of all gun murders, depending on your source. I think we need to re-evaluate the drugs we give to kids, many of which are known to cause suicidal and murderous thoughts. I also think we should protect our kids. I lock my door at night. Should I have to? NO. Should my country be a country where people might break into my house? NO. But I lock my door anyways to better protect myself. Is it 100% effective? No, someone might break in through my window. Yet I lock my door anyways. I want my kids protected and will do my best, even if what I do isn't 100% effective every time. You do too.
Arming teachers doesn't solve ANYTHING!
Let me ask you this: does arming teachers make things worse? Has anybody ever been harmed by an armed teacher? Has any teacher ever once wished they were armed when confronting a psycho gun murderer? What is the source of your opposition?