Multiple professional armed guards couldn’t stop the president getting shot. Are teachers going to do better?
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Addiotionally, I presume he was on the radio for those four minutes. Did despatch tell him to stand firm until backup arrived?
But essentially, and in abstraction away from the reality of the horror that he only possibly could have prevented, his omission highlights the bullshit and farcical nature of the GOP/NRA push to arm teachers (just, lol), let alone the implication of corruption and insider wheely-dealing.
These fuckers would love to arm teachers and build fortress schools. More ca$hola flooding into the offense business.
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I know, the US Consulate here in Munich is an eyesore in the middle of the city.
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This is exactly how I expect people to react the first time an armed teacher fails to stop a school shooting, should that policy somehow come to pass. Which of course is the point: “let’s all pile on the person who was too cowardly to sacrifice their life in an attempt to save the children from a shooter who had a far deadlier weapon instead of focusing on how the shooter got that weapon.”
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The kids are already relatively “safe” from school shootings by any statistical measure. The odds of them being shot remain extremely low. Helping them feel safe is actually a worthwhile goal. Ways to achieve this include working towards America not being a nation containing an alarming number of gun-toting nutjobs who shoot up large numbers of people on a regular basis. Arming teachers moves in the exact opposite direction. You know when you travel to countries where armed soldiers are patrolling the streets? Do you feel safe there? No. I didn’t think so.
This is a separate discussion to the one regarding the apparent fact that 45 needed prompts to enable him to express sympathy. I’d not be surprised if one of the middle prompts was “Don’t tell jokes about Pocahontas.”
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I would like to think that this “big fan” quote is made up. I’d REALLY, REALLY like to to think that. But I don’t. It is completely believable. And that makes me a sad panda.
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I mean, I already do all that with my kid. I’d still prefer she not get shot going to school, if it’s all the same to you, thanks. My daughter (and no one’s kid) is a rounding error worth ignoring the larger issues of guns and gun control.
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Not quite.
That student accurately transcribed from their hand.
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Cuz dRumpf went to a military academy, and look where that’s got us…
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You might be missing my point, but that’s pretty common on this thread.
Well, of course no kid (yours, mine nor anyones else’s) should ever get shot at school. That’s an (almost) universal belief that I passionately share. While the most regrettable outcome of school shootings are of course the fatalities and injuries themselves, we also do children no favours by over-representing the risk and scaring the shit out of them. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do something to reduce the risk of shootings. That bit is important and has wider implications.
I’m firmly of the opinion that the wrong way to reduce the risk and terror of school shootings is this idiotic notion of more guns, and to put those guns in the hands of semi-trained teachers.
The cheeto-in-chief is, unsurprisingly, politicising this, and appealing to the NRA-aligned ammosexuals to propose solution that will likely result in more shootings.
Well, just so you know (I’m sure you’re getting this by now), your original post came off as a dismissing any concerns that parents might have about this situation. I get what you’re saying and you’re not wrong, but that’s not how your first post even remotely sounded.
And as for politicizing, yes he’s doing that (and the NRA), all the while they claim that it’s really the “liberals” who are doing so.
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And a good pension plan.
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Do any Americans ever do a Root Cause Analysis to figure out why they have to turn every US embassy or consulate into a fortress? Why would anyone want to attack the United States and their facilities? /s
US kids are 4872% more likely to be shot at school than kids in any other developed economy.
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Can we talk about the meaning of “developed”?
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Boy they really don’t care to keep up appearances of caring about the rest of humankind, eh? I’m just waiting for them to claim they’re some kind of superior race, then the nonsense will be out in the open for once.
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Fair point. Places where kids are at greater risk of violent death while at school:
- Nigeria/ Niger/ Chad / Cameroon (Boko Haram)(esp. females)
- Syria (civil war, US and Russian aircraft)
- Afghanistan (esp. females. Civil war. US aircraft)
That’s it. Everywhere else has schools which are statistically safer than the US. In almost all of them, the number of kids shot at school is zero (0). And practically all of them have zero (0) security focused on preventing school shootings.
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5000% of a near-zero number is still small.
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“Good news, hundreds of grieving families! Your kids’ deaths were statistical outliers!”
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