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To stop school shooters with AR-15s and body armor: teachers with AR-15s and body armor?
Once again the idea of arming teachers to thwart would-be school shooters is a “thing” among Republicans. After the Parkland shootings Trump proposed this:
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President Donald Trump’s suggestion that teachers should be armed and trained to combat school shooters was widely criticized Wednesday.
Meeting with students and parents affected by school shootings at the White House, Trump listened to emotional stories and pleas to enhance school safety. He suggested that armed teachers might be able to neutralize shooters like the former student who fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week.
“If you had a teacher who was adept the firearm, they could end the attack very quickly,” he said Wednesday, stating that schools could arm up to 20% of their teachers to stop “maniacs” who may try and attack them.
“I’m not here to debate, but I lost my sister,” said Hunter Pollack, whose sister Meadow was killed in last week’s shooting.
“And like Mr. President said, if you could find 20% of maybe retired law enforcement officers, or a teacher who could go through discreet training to carry a firearm around his waist, it could’ve been a very different situation.” CNN
Once again we are hearing this from Trump and others in the GOP. Here’s what Trump said when he addressed the NRA convention:
Former President Donald Trump called for an overhaul of school security in the aftermath of the Uvalde shooting and demanded that teachers be armed during a speech to National Rifle Association members on Friday.
'Surely we can all agree our schools should not be the softest target our school should be the single hardest target in our country,' he said to applause.
'And that's why as part of a comprehensive school safety plan, it's time to finally allow highly trained teachers to safely and discreetly concealed carry, let them concealed carry.' Daily Mail
This is so patently wrong-headed, so practically impossible, that I am sure even Wayne LaPierre knows that the arming teachers proposal is a heaping pile of bullcrap. He knows it is a diversionary idea to pony up to avoid any actual regulation regulating guns. It doesn’t bear an explanation as to why in any number of scenarios even a highly trained teacher with a handgun wouldn’t have been able to stop the Uvalde and similar school massacres.
The NRA mantra that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun is more accurately stated as the only way to stop a school shooter with an AR-15 and body armor by a teacher is if they are armed with an AR-15 and are wearing body armor.
The Poll:
Sen. Murphy says there's ‘growing momentum’ on gun violence legislation after latest meeting of bipartisan group (article The Hill). Do you agree?
Here are then main provisions the Democrats propose (from House Democrats Have a Gun Control Proposal That's Painfully in Touch With Reality):
raising the purchasing age for semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21
banning the import, sale, manufacture, and possession of large-capacity magazines
putting in place safe-storage requirements within the home
creating criminal penalties for storage violations.
Poll from Daily Kos81 votesHow likely to you think there will be any meaningful legislation about gun control? 0 = Very unlikely to 10 = Very likely
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