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The Real Marty · 03-23-2018, 10:15 AM

(03-23-2018, 09:51 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:
(03-23-2018, 09:18 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: lol Not an obstacle?

There are 3.2 million teachers across america. So thats 300 dollars for a safe and gun. Then what about the training? Who is paying for that? How long should a teacher train for before being considered competent enough to shoot an active shooter? 6 months? A year? Can't have teachers using their own guns as well because that's a safety concern for the counties. Gotta make sure all guns are the same.

So we got 300 bucks at minimum for gun and safe. Then whatever it costs to train someone for 6 months (I have no clue how much this would cost but doing anything for 6 months isn't cheap) so let's just say another 300 bucks per person. 600 bucks total to train 1 teacher.

Now let's say we only train half the teachers in America. So 1.6 million. So that means we need $960 million dollars.

There are a lot of straw men in that argument.

First off, you wouldn't arm every teacher. You wouldn't require any teacher to carry a gun, only allow it. If no teacher at a particular school chooses to carry a gun, so be it.

Any teacher who chooses to participate would use their own gun. There is no cost to the school budget.

A teacher would have to have a concealed carry permit. No other training is necessary.

The idea here is not to have armed teachers shooting school invaders, the idea is to deter the invaders from trying because they would expect armed resistance, maybe even from several different directions. As long as the number and identities of armed teachers is unknown, the invader would be walking into what could be a quick death. There's a reason why burglars in the US don't enter homes when they believe homeowners are present, they may get shot. That possibility protects homes without guns as well as those with guns.

I would want any teacher who wants to carry a gun to school to be thoroughly screened, not only for the ability to handle a weapon safely, but also for mental and emotional stability. I remember too many teachers who should never ever be allowed to carry a gun to school.

And I'm pretty ambivalent about them being allowed to carry them around in the halls of the school, unless those guns had biometric identifiers that only allowed that particular person to pull the trigger. Otherwise, some crazy student could snatch that gun away and start shooting.