School Shooting Newtown CT

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Jeff OTMG

I do not propose to arm all teachers, but it worked in Pearl, MS and has worked in Israel.

In Israel, all teachers have had extensive gun training in their minimum 2 years (for women) or 3 years (for men) of military training.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

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.

Originally Posted by Jeff OTMG

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."

[adpimiz]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

In Israel, all teachers have had extensive gun training in their minimum 2 years (for women) or 3 years (for men) of military training.

This. I do think that if the solution is to arm someone in the school, it would need to be someone with extensive training. I am not anti-gun, and I do not think more gun control is the answer to preventing mass shootings. However, I don't know how much it would help to arm teachers. If someone comes into a teacher's classroom with a gun, the teacher would have to be able to react quickly enough to grab his/her gun and pull the trigger, before possibly getting shot themselves. Not only would they have to react quickly, they would also have to hit their target - not an easy feat when children are probably running around, the shooter is firing, and there is just complete chaos. Someone who carries, but has very little experience, may not be able to react effectively in this situation.

Like I said, I am not anti-gun. I don't think gun control laws can prevent shootings like this. But, I'm not sure that arming teachers is the answer. It's a much more complicated theory than it may seem.