We’re Not Gonna Take It
October 13th, 2006 by COD
Is Texas right or wrong in suggesting that students in school react to people with guns by fighting back aggressively and immediately?
Media hype aside, very few kids are hurt by school invaders with guns. I’m not sure any change in strategy is really warranted. Following the logic to the ridiculous end, why not just hand out guns to all the students? It’s the classic second amendment argument. A heavily armed population is a safe population. Part of the reason these idiots target schools is that they know it will get lots of attention, and they know with almost absolute certainty that they will be the only armed person on the premises. If the teachers and students were armed, schools would not be as enticing a target.
I’m not in favor of arming the teachers either. There are too many unstable and untrained people in close confines in a school. Accessible guns I think would lead to more accidents than can be justified given the minuscule odds that a gun at school would ever be used to defuse a dangerous situation.
3 Responses to “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
Right after Pearl Harbor, my dad was stationed somewhere in Connecticut (if memory serves). He said that everyone was issued a sidearm, and that was the most fearful for his life that he ever was, and he served in the Philippines during WWII. The authorities came to their senses after a shooting when two fellows were playing Quick Draw McGraw, and one accidentally killed the other. Dad said he was relieved when all the sidearms were locked back in the arms rooms.
I’m not in favor of arming the teachers either. There are too many unstable and untrained people in close confines in a school.
Heh. Especially the teachers!
Probably unintentional. But I still thought it was funny.
I noticed that as I spellchecked before posting. I decided to leave it without taking advantage of the joke myself, to see which reader would take the set and spike home the point.
Well done Daniel