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Old 12-17-2012, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby View Post
In Israel, all teachers have had extensive gun training in their minimum 2 years (for women) or 3 years (for men) of military training.
And in Pearl, the gun the assistant principal used had to be retrieved from his car; it was not the in school.

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Originally Posted by Jeff OTMG View Post
I absolutely think that gun control should be discussed. I just can't, for the life of me, think of a law that would have protected those kids. As I said before, even if you suddenly make guns disappear so you can't even get one by killing a cop, how do you stop a knife wielding psycho from stabbing 6 year olds? How do you prevent them from chaining exit doors and firebombing the school with gasoline? What law prevents it?
Like I said, you can't stop these things completely. The "what ifs" can go on forever. What if the assistant principal in Pearl who got his gun out of his car had been the first person the shooter killed?

The problem is that all too often the "what law could possibly work?" line stops the discussion. The answer is "I don't know. Let's put lots of informed heads together and see what we can figure out."
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