(03-21-2018, 08:16 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(03-21-2018, 07:13 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I can't answer for the "liberals" because I'm not a liberal.   But wasn't the "resource officer" at the school a police officer?   In fact, he was trained as a SWAT team member.   I'm totally in favor of police officers having guns.  Teachers, on the other hand, can be pretty wacky.  I'm unsure about giving guns to teachers.  Some of the teachers I had in high school would have no business going around armed with a gun.

I felt that way about a lot of the kids that had handguns at my high school (they weren't legally obtained, by the way), yet they still carried them in once the metal detectors went down.

This wasn't a school shooting, to me anyway, she was his ex-girlfriend or something like that.. this was a targeted attack. I mean, yea, it was at a school but a school shooting, to me, is a crazy douche who tries to kill as many random people as he can.

I don't think anyone is saying that all teachers are mandated to be armed, at least I haven't seen that position anywhere. The platform I do see is that teachers who possess a CCW should be permitted to carry on the job (i.e. eliminating the concept of "gun free zone"). Since those permits require a training class and demonstration of competence I believe that platform has merit. I don't favor making your pothead hippy Sociology teacher go out and buy a gun to carry to work.

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