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    Why can't teachers carry guns if properly trained? For instance my cousin is a reserve deputy for the police department and a history teacher, but he has to leave his firearm at home due to a gun free zone. Seems silly really because everyone knows only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coldhearted View Post
    Why can't teachers carry guns if properly trained?
    Among the long list of very obvious issues of arming teachers, I'd say my favorite point to illustrate is that the police are properly trained and they tend to shoot innocent people on a pretty consistant basis. I don't think news stories going along the lines of "A girl was shot dead at Jefferson High school today. Witnesses say the teacher was unprovoked. The school is investigating the incident" makes schools a better, safer place.

    Seems silly really because everyone knows only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
    This is also untrue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Palem View Post
    Among the long list of very obvious issues of arming teachers,
    Tread lightly there pamela...I have a feeling this LONG LIST is not as long as you portray it to be. There is a school district in Colorado that their teachers are allowed to carry guns. But in doing so they must attend a 3 day tactical course on proper use of the weapons and how to defuse the situation. This is a subject that will most definitely piss off the libs and democrats. #TrumpMakesAmericaGreatAgain
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    Quote Originally Posted by Palem View Post
    Among the long list of very obvious issues of arming teachers, I'd say my favorite point to illustrate is that the police are properly trained and they tend to shoot innocent people on a pretty consistant basis. I don't think news stories going along the lines of "A girl was shot dead at Jefferson High school today. Witnesses say the teacher was unprovoked. The school is investigating the incident" makes schools a better, safer place.


    This is also untrue.
    One cops do not shoot innocent people on the regular. That's just completely false narrative put out by the media. Second teachers would be armed to stop mass shootings, not enforce laws like police are charged to do. Police do a extremely hard job with little to no pay, then we ask them to police war zones like Chicago, Baltimore and Oakland. Honestly anyone brave enough just to put on the badge in cities like that have my respect. Sure there are a few bad apple cops that commit crimes but most police shootings come down to was it justified or not. Basically the individuals broke a law or laws then the police officer shot them for whatever reason and it's investigated. Teachers wouldn't be charged with enforcing laws and instructed to only use a gun in life or death situations. Just the knowledge of guns being in schools will stop most of these mass shootings. Because the people doing these shootings are cowards, hence why they always pick gun free zones. Also media is showing their extreme biased by the way, shootings happen all the time in Chicago but no one ever reports it. :(

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coldhearted View Post
    One cops do not shoot innocent people on the regular. That's just completely false narrative put out by the media. Second teachers would be armed to stop mass shootings, not enforce laws like police are charged to do. Police do a extremely hard job with little to no pay, then we ask them to police war zones like Chicago, Baltimore and Oakland. Honestly anyone brave enough just to put on the badge in cities like that have my respect. Sure there are a few bad apple cops that commit crimes but most police shootings come down to was it justified or not. Basically the individuals broke a law or laws then the police officer shot them for whatever reason and it's investigated. Teachers wouldn't be charged with enforcing laws and instructed to only use a gun in life or death situations. Just the knowledge of guns being in schools will stop most of these mass shootings. Because the people doing these shootings are cowards, hence why they always pick gun free zones. Also media is showing their extreme biased by the way, shootings happen all the time in Chicago but no one ever reports it. :(
    The solutions isnt more guns, the solution is stricter gun laws.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Korp View Post
    The solutions isnt more guns, the solution is stricter gun laws.

    BWAHAHAHAHA Yes, because criminals care about the laws. The 31 states that have “shall issue” laws allowing private citizens to carry concealed weapons have, on average, a 24 percent lower violent crime rate, a 19 percent lower murder rate and a 39 percent lower robbery rate than states that forbid concealed weapons. In fact, the nine states with the lowest violent crime rates are all right-to-carry states. Remarkably, guns are used for self-defense more than 2 million times a year, three to five times the estimated number of violent crimes committed with guns.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilmington View Post
    BWAHAHAHAHA Yes, because criminals care about the laws. The 31 states that have “shall issue” laws allowing private citizens to carry concealed weapons have, on average, a 24 percent lower violent crime rate, a 19 percent lower murder rate and a 39 percent lower robbery rate than states that forbid concealed weapons. In fact, the nine states with the lowest violent crime rates are all right-to-carry states. Remarkably, guns are used for self-defense more than 2 million times a year, three to five times the estimated number of violent crimes committed with guns.
    Remarkably countries that have stricter gun laws has no mass shootings. Your issue is that you compare **** with ****. But go ahead keep believing that guns is a solution. It have worked well so far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coldhearted View Post
    One cops do not shoot innocent people on the regular. That's just completely false narrative put out by the media. Second teachers would be armed to stop mass shootings, not enforce laws like police are charged to do. Police do a extremely hard job with little to no pay, then we ask them to police war zones like Chicago, Baltimore and Oakland. Honestly anyone brave enough just to put on the badge in cities like that have my respect. Sure there are a few bad apple cops that commit crimes but most police shootings come down to was it justified or not. Basically the individuals broke a law or laws then the police officer shot them for whatever reason and it's investigated. Teachers wouldn't be charged with enforcing laws and instructed to only use a gun in life or death situations. Just the knowledge of guns being in schools will stop most of these mass shootings. Because the people doing these shootings are cowards, hence why they always pick gun free zones. Also media is showing their extreme biased by the way, shootings happen all the time in Chicago but no one ever reports it. :(
    I can't take you seriously when you complain about media bias and then refer to major US cities as "war zones".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palem View Post
    I can't take you seriously when you complain about media bias and then refer to major US cities as "war zones".


    If those arent warzones then what are they?
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    Quote Originally Posted by umajon911 View Post


    If those arent warzones then what are they?
    Just in Feburary there was in around 900 civlians killed in Ghouta (Thats a real warzone)

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