Saturday, February 24, 2018

School Shopping List: No Guns (Arming Teachers is a Really Bad Idea)

I'm not ready to give up, and putting guns in schools sounds to me like exactly that.

Beyond the logistics of why arming teachers is a bad idea, beyond the cost and liability and training, is the idea arming teachers is a societal move that I just can't comprehend.

The irony being the very people who run screaming from universal health care, a far too socialist proposal, embrace the idea of one man one gun, the definition of leveling the playing field. Because if you arm teachers don't you then need to arm pastors, and post office managers, and concert promoters? Everyone on a military base is armed, that didn't help.

We have in place a police force; civilized societies organize and assign jobs. Visit a kindergarten classroom: one student hands out paper, one student wipes down tables, one takes messages to the office. If they all wiped down tables it would be madness. I'll continue to do my job, you continue to do yours.

This is not a sustainable solution. There are hundreds of reasons why it won't work, logical and tangible reasons, but none more important than the defeat it illustrates as a society. If you can't beat them join them? No.

The President seems to think this is the best he can do, I know we can do better.

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