Should teachers in the US be armed?

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SpoonJuly

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Just say on local news that some teachers in Fair View school district in West Plains Mo. have been conceal /carry for 5 years now.
They have been trained like swat teams and must be go threw 36 hours additional training every year.
Although not named, they said several districts in Arkansas are doing the same thing.
 
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Just say on local news that some teachers in Fair View school district in West Plains Mo. have been conceal /carry for 5 years now.
They have been trained like swat teams and must be go threw 36 hours additional training every year.
Although not named, they said several districts in Arkansas are doing the same thing.
You sure this ain't SWAT teams trained like teachers?

Haha...
 
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SpoonJuly

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You sure this ain't SWAT teams trained like teachers?

Haha...
Seem like the proper approach if you are going to arm teachers.
The said the cost was reasonable.
 
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Susanna

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Seem like the proper approach if you are going to arm teachers.
The said the cost was reasonable.
Sure. If teachers are to carry and protect the schools, they need to be trained on how to carry out a mission like that.

They need to learn how to not only to fire a gun and not be missing their targets, but also on how to decide in a splitsecond who is to live and who is not.
 

Tommy379

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Apparently the school resource officer isn't going to get the job done.
 

Billyd

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The goal is to prevent school shootings, not to have to react to one in progress. Let's enact policies that have this goal.

I don't believe that armed teachers will prevent a mentally ill student from going on a shooting rampage in a school, nor do I believe that any type of gun control will work either.
 
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SpoonJuly

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The goal is to prevent school shootings, not to have to react to one in progress. Let's enact policies that have this goal.

I don't believe that armed teachers will prevent a mentally ill student from going on a shooting rampage in a school, nor do I believe that any type of gun control will work either.
While I agree with you, Properly trained and armed teachers MIGHT limit the carnage when all other programs fail.
There has got to be a better way to keep these people out of our schools. The present system is just not working.
 
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A regular news commentator on tv I think made a great point....

He said the government and corporations have already been protecting "soft targets" for decades... Soft targets include courthouses, government offices, corporate offices, airports... What do they all have in common? Armed security personnel, metal detectors and advanced security systems... Schools have always been soft targets but little has been done to protect them.
 

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While I agree with you, Properly trained and armed teachers MIGHT limit the carnage when all other programs fail.
There has got to be a better way to keep these people out of our schools. The present system is just not working.
I'm not sure that we should accept "MIGHT limit". I'm not convinced that it will not exacerbate the situation.

There is a better way. It begins with early identification and intervention.

I'm out of time this evening. I'll address the subject more tomorrow.
 
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SpoonJuly

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I'm not sure that we should accept "MIGHT limit". I'm not convinced that it will not exacerbate the situation.

There is a better way. It begins with early identification and intervention.

I'm out of time this evening. I'll address the subject more tomorrow.
The reason I said MIGHT is because , thank God, it has not been necessary in those schools where this has been put in place.
I pray we never find out if it works in the school that have already armed some teachers.
 
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Why banning AR-15s and other semi-automatic weapons won't matter....

This is a shotgun loaded with 4 rounds that can be emptied, reloaded and shot again in 3.5 seconds...

That's 8 shots with a reload in teh middle in just 3.5 seconds!

[video=youtube;xXkyEbrqNGw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXkyEbrqNGw[/video]
 
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Desdichado

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That said, it's Jerry Miculek. It's like telling someone how to swing a club, then posting a video of Tiger Woods :p

Why banning AR-15s and other semi-automatic weapons won't matter....

This is a shotgun loaded with 4 rounds that can be emptied, reloaded and shot again in 3.5 seconds...

That's 8 shots with a reload in teh middle in just 3.5 seconds!

[video=youtube;xXkyEbrqNGw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXkyEbrqNGw[/video]
 

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Come on, Huckleberry, you wear a foil hat--admit it--
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hornetguy

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Again: *read carefully* before commenting. Otherwise the conversation is really useless.

ACLU did not object about the legality, but about the merit. They thought it was unfair.
You know, your obnoxious attitude and approach to "discussion" is getting old.

The ACLU would not be trying to get it changed if they did not think it could be proven illegal. They argue "civil liberties", which implies "legality".... not what "we think should be allowed".
 

hornetguy

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I don't believe that armed teachers will prevent a mentally ill student from going on a shooting rampage in a school, nor do I believe that any type of gun control will work either.
I do not, either. An armed teacher, etc, is a fail-safe kind of thing. IF a shooter gets past all the restrictions, checkpoints, and actually STARTS shooting, the armed teacher would be a last ditch effort to stop the murder before everyone gets killed. Otherwise, you have "fish in a barrel".
 
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Ok, I will ignore the direct name calling.
I consider it offensive if you reply with propaganda, without even bother reading the propaganda itself or the source.
It is offensive that you cannot give to this more than 1 minute.

I gave you concrete reasons why Wikipedia is a more reliable source of information:
1) Widely read (by people with multiple opinions)
2) Has precise (and explicitly stated) rules for producing articles
3) Articles are produced by a multitude of authors that have to come to a consensus.
4) Among the other rules, every fact reported has a reference to the precise source of information.
5) Funding is transparent.

I do not think CPRC fulfills any of the above. On top of that, I gave you a concrete example
of one of their "data analysis" choices that made their analysis not suitable for our discussion.
You did not object to that.

Finally, as for the solution: while you might want to label me, I do not have one.
I think this is a dramatic problem. There are many people proposing for different
ideas. I am open minded towards nearly all of them, and trying to gather reliable
information.

However, this much I know: we should start having discussion based on facts and reliable information.
Information found online should be double checked for sources, for the methodology used, and
the rhetoric should be systematically scraped off the facts.

Ok, I will ignore the direct name calling.
I consider it offensive if you reply with propaganda, without even bother reading the propaganda itself or the source.
It is offensive that you cannot give to this more than 1 minute.

Its not name calling. You are making a false comparison. You intimated that I didn't care about the murder of children,and I said that was offensive. You tried to turn that around and say everything I was posting was offending you and propaganda,to which I said you were being ridiculous,that is not name calling. And if you think anti-gun sites don't have an agenda and propaganda you're fooling yourself.



I gave you concrete reasons why Wikipedia is a more reliable source of information

You gave your opinion.We all use Wiki,none of us claim it as an authority on any given subject.


I do not think CPRC fulfills any of the above.

Again,thats your opinion.



Finally, as for the solution: while you might want to label me, I do not have one.
I think this is a dramatic problem. There are many people proposing for different
ideas. I am open minded towards nearly all of them, and trying to gather reliable
information.

You've been condescending to almost everyone who has answered you. There are things we cannot know until they are tried. People keep screaming "do something" then when things are proposed "well we can't do that,that won't work". Its as simple as this,Trump has made more than one suggestion,he never said all teachers should or must be armed,different schools are coming up with solutions that work for them. All anyone has done in this thread is give their personal opinion. One is not more right than the other. Its a discussion.



However, this much I know: we should start having discussion based on facts and reliable information.

You've been told this at least a dozen times here,we do not know what we do not know. Somewhere someone has to do something and see if it works. Its better than doing nothing. You cannot present facts that are not there yet.


Information found online should be double checked for sources, for the methodology used, and
the rhetoric should be systematically scraped off the facts.

Once again,this is your opinion. This is a discussion site and people are allowed to post what they wish,as long as it abides by the rules,in whatever manner they wish.Not everyone has time to do detective work for everything they post. If you do,great. But you don't get to demand what others post to suit you.






 
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You know, your obnoxious attitude and approach to "discussion" is getting old.

The ACLU would not be trying to get it changed if they did not think it could be proven illegal. They argue "civil liberties", which implies "legality".... not what "we think should be allowed".
Are you kidding me?
Your argument to show that something is illegal is
- NOT showing that it goes against a specific law.
- NOT referring to an argument opinion of a legal scholar saying that it is illegal
- NOT referring to the opinion of an expert saying (without argument) that it is illegal.

It is referring to the opinion of somebody, that doesn't say it is illegal, but that *you* interpreted
as driven by their belief that it is illegal.

I really never heard a weaker argument.

Yes, I am used to discuss on the basis of real facts, reliable information sources, and logical arguments.
This might be obnoxious to you (or simply hard).
 
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Its not name calling. You are making a false comparison. You intimated that I didn't care about the murder of children,and I said that was offensive. You tried to turn that around and say everything I was posting was offending you and propaganda,to which I said you were being ridiculous,that is not name calling. And if you think anti-gun sites don't have an agenda and propaganda you're fooling yourself.






You gave your opinion.We all use Wiki,none of us claim it as an authority on any given subject.





Again,thats your opinion.





You've been condescending to almost everyone who has answered you. There are things we cannot know until they are tried. People keep screaming "do something" then when things are proposed "well we can't do that,that won't work". Its as simple as this,Trump has made more than one suggestion,he never said all teachers should or must be armed,different schools are coming up with solutions that work for them. All anyone has done in this thread is give their personal opinion. One is not more right than the other. Its a discussion.






You've been told this at least a dozen times here,we do not know what we do not know. Somewhere someone has to do something and see if it works. Its better than doing nothing. You cannot present facts that are not there yet.





Once again,this is your opinion. This is a discussion site and people are allowed to post what they wish,as long as it abides by the rules,in whatever manner they wish.Not everyone has time to do detective work for everything they post. If you do,great. But you don't get to demand what others post to suit you.

"It is your opinion" is not a reply. Anybody here is allowed to write whatever he/she wants.
This does not mean that all posts are equally accurate/thorough/correct/truthful/honest.
I do not require everybody to be so, but if you start arguing with me, I will!

Regarding Wikipedia vs CPRC:
I gathered facts. Either I got the facts right, in which case the conclusion follows logically.
Otherwise, show me which facts are incorrect.

Again, people in this discussion argued for giving guns to teachers. I asked for evidence towards
the effectiveness of such a dramatic change, with potentially (I say *potentially*) large negative impact
on the lives of children.
- Several people started replying.
- I tried to demonstrate that the proposed evidence actually does not exist.
- Eventually you seem agree that there is no evidence.
Great.

As for how complicated is checking sources, give me a break!
- You cut and paste half a page of a long pro-guns article.
- You probably read the article before pasting it.
- The web page has a big logo on top with the word "GUNS".
You say you do not have time to check the logo? That takes less than one second.

I am not suggesting to do detective work. I am just suggesting that you should skeptical, especially of information sources that
are highly partisan *and* confirm your bias.