Why hasn't anyone thought of the most obvious solution here? Arm the students.
There's a lot more students than teachers. Imagine a school shooter pulling out a gun and trying to shoot someone. What are the chances there will be a teacher nearby to respond to the threat? Who knows. What are the chances there will be a student nearby to respond to the threat? A lot higher! On a university campus here's students everywhere!
It could also be used as a way to ease young adults into proper American life. Owning a gun is a big part of what it means to be American. What better way to get those patriotic juices flowing than training students to shoot an unpatriotic attacker, take him out, and save their fellow Americans?
This is such a no-brainer. Win/win all around
Why hasn't anyone thought of the most obvious solution here? Arm the students.
There's a lot more students than teachers. Imagine a school shooter pulling out a gun and trying to shoot someone. What are the chances there will be a teacher nearby to respond to the threat? Who knows. What are the chances there will be a student nearby to respond to the threat? A lot higher! On a university campus here's students everywhere!
It could also be used as a way to ease young adults into proper American life. Owning a gun is a big part of what it means to be American. What better way to get those patriotic juices flowing than training students to shoot an unpatriotic attacker, take him out, and save their fellow Americans?
This is such a no-brainer. Win/win all around
What we really need is a rule requiring people to be armed in order to board a plane or come within 1000 feet of a school. That way no more unarmed people are allowed on planes or in schools putting everyone else at risk with their silly defenselessness.Yeah, that's right up there with arming all airline passengers.
Nothing could possibly go wrong there.
Well my quote is still the more famous one... so there
I reckon the fastest way to get effective gun control in the USA is for some rich person to buy every black American an assault rifle
Seeing in that context makes me feel like it actually is pretty similar to the "take the sword... perish by the sword" quote... but I'm not dying on that hillArakhor's/Tim's is prettier though:
"Telemachus,
all these war weapons we must stash inside,
and when the suitors notice they're not there
and question you, then reassure them,
using gentle language:
'I've put them away
in a place far from the smoke. Those weapons
are no longer like the ones Odysseus left
when he set off for Troy so long ago.
They're tarnished. That's how much the fire's breath
has reached them. Moreover, a god has set
a greater fear inside my heart—you may get drunk
on too much wine, then fight amongst yourselves
and wound each other. That would shame the feast,
disgrace your courtship. For iron by itself
can draw a man to use it.'"
That movie was freaking awesomeYeah, they need this guy:
Can't be worse than arming teachers.
You joke, but this is pretty much the story of the Black Panthers and gun control in California.I reckon the fastest way to get effective gun control in the USA is for some rich person to buy every black American an assault rifle
You joke, but this is pretty much the story of the Black Panthers and gun control in California.
What sort of gun control exists in California? Has it been successful?
Sounds like California might as well secede
Expecting such proactive activities to "weed out the wrong'uns" also begs the question: What do you charge the wrongun with?
Okay, guy posted a stupidly aggressive status on YouTube. Multiple police calls to his house, but no charges to file. FBI Special Agent Dick Tracy "has a feeling" this guy is really dangerous. Now what? Are we, as a society, ready for "well, an FBI agent has a feeling you might be dangerous, so we are locking you up"?
To get back to this, in the past week just in Southern California ten people have been detained for "making school shooting threats." Near as I can make out, one of them has actually been charged on a weapons charge, but the rest don't appear to have any sort of prosecutable offenses.
Well, that will solve all the problems.
In all seriousness though, Trump did make at least one good suggestion: raising the minimum purchase age for all firearms to 21 instead of only pistols having that restriction.