big kahuna wrote:
drn92 wrote:
Respectfully, articles like that do not make me think that arming teachers is the way to go. It makes me think that if people (multiple agencies that are responsible for this kind of stuff) would have done their jobs initially then the likelihood of this specific tragedy occurring would have been lower. Additionally, if it would have been more difficult for the shooter to get a weapon like the AR-15, the chance of this happening could have been lower. Active shooter situations are challenging enough. If you add in additional guns in the hands of people not trained in that type of situation you just magnify the potential outcomes (good and bad, but mostly bad in my opinion). LEO’s do not spend enough time training for those scenarios ... what makes you think teachers will be prepared to act? I want my teachers and money spent by the school to focus on education. Let the law enforcement community focus on law enforcement.
It is interesting to watch this unfold. We get calls of “it is too early to overreact and let emotion guide new gun laws to restrict access” but at the same time people want to immediately act and let emotion make it ok to arm teachers. Pretty soon it will look like an old western movie with everyone walking around packing.
drn92
I'm not in favor of arming teachers. If I gave that impression, I apologize.
Edited to add: What I'm extremely upset about are the failures at the federal, state and county government and law enforcement levels that directly led to this completely preventable tragedy, and by that I mean the failure to do something about this ticking time bomb of a future school shooter. Who even introduced himself to some people like this: "Hi, I'm XXXX, and I'm going to be a school shooter." Or who, on at least one occasion, was known to have put a gun to the head of a woman -- who may have been a relative or a close acquaintance -- and about which the country sheriff's department did nothing, from the looks of things.
Those are the kinds of things that have me irritated about this entire situation.
100% agree.
drn92