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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   If it saves one child it’s worth it.
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   AgentSmith101 said, 5 months ago

   It won’t if you force a gun in someone’s hand that’s not willing or able to use it. I agree that there needs to be trained security in schools to stop an intruder before the police arrive, but not everyone needs a gun.
   A teacher wants to volunteer to carry one, fine.
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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   Can you imagine the teacher having to step out of the room for a couple of minutes, and a couple of curious 2nd or 3rd graders looking at it and saying; “I wonder what THIS does?”
   Or “Hey, my Squirt Gun has one of these, too!”
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   ARodney said, 5 months ago

   The actual facts do not support Mr Ima at all. The more guns in a state, the more gun deaths. The more guns in a city, the more gun deaths. The more guns in a county, the more gun deaths. The more guns in a home, the more gun deaths. All putting guns in school will accomplish is more gun deaths. It’s like car alarms — for every car alarm that’s telling you a car is being stolen, there are hundreds of car alarms that go off, on their owners, by accident. (And horrible as the killings at Sandy Hook were, school shootings are very, very, very rare when you look at the number of schools and school days in America. With guns in schools, there’ll be one or two accidental shootings every day, and when there IS a school shooting, the guns are unlikely to accomplish any more than they did at Columbine.
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   Gypsy8 said, 5 months ago

   It may be another 50 years before another crazy with a gun shows up at any one school again. When he does, an armed teacher would more likely get herself shot than shoot him. But in the meantime, how many accidental shootings of kids might occur, or what about a student in the school going berzerk and having ready access to a gun? Difficult to see guns in school being the right solution to an extremely rare event.
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   SkepticCal said, 5 months ago

   Teachers with guns?
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   Has the National Education Association lost their collective and collectivist minds?
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   Eryx said, 5 months ago

   Really, Ima?

   http://www.fox16.com/news/story/Update-Jacksonville-High-student-steals-gun-from/JYUOJohHL065M3KXG5alYQ.cspx
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   jack75287 said, 5 months ago

   @Eryx

   Your changing the point again!
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   jack75287 said, 5 months ago

   @ARodney

   Not true murder rates are down so how can you tell.
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    midaswelby said, 5 months ago

    @ARodney

    Every country that has banned guns has had an increase in crime, and none have since reduced their crime rates significantly below what it was before the ban.
    Every place that has allowed Concealed Carry had experienced a reduction in crime.
    Nearly every mass shooting in the US since the ’50’s has happened in areas where firearms are not allowed at all.
    I’ve only seen one study that supports your argument, and it’s just weak.
    I’d prefer to have my children protected at least as well as my money, by armed guards.
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    cdward said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    You might kill a few by mistake, but hey! You saved one!
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    cdward said, 5 months ago

    @AgentSmith101

    But who’s going to pay for the extra security? Not the folks who chant “No taxes!”
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    Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

    @ARodney

    So where do you get your rant from my comment, specifically: “If it saves one child it’s worth it.”?
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    artexc said, 5 months ago

    All children in school need to wear bulletproof vests and teachers carry AK-47’s and be trained for assault attacks.
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    Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

    @Eryx

    Let me get this, the student stole the gun, the inanimate gun didn’t steal the student. Right?
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