i Am in the middle of a political science lecture and suddenly the classroom door burst open and a maniac is spraying the class with the bullets of a AR15. Even if I was armed, by the time I could react, the damage to human life would be catastrophic because of the speed of the rapid fire of a killing machine. The initial reaction of anyone facing that type of fire power would be to run or hide knowing your hand gun would be no match for the AR15.
Eliminating these types of weapons from society should be the common sense first step toward making America safe again. Anyone who claims this in someway would be a attack on the second amendment is a fool. No American needs a gun that is designed to fight wars and cause mass casualties. No American should have to worry about ever facing the fire of such a weapon. I will keep teaching, no gun for me, hopefully after the mid terms when democrats control the house and senate we can move toward eliminating the AR15 and weapons like it forever.
Originally Posted by StandinStraight
On a certain level, I see where you're coming from OP. It is simple logistics to know that unless the government is also offering accuracy classes to these teachers along with the right to carry it really would do nothing in the wake of an automatic.
I always wonder why they don't just institute metal detectors in schools and classsrooms like they do in NYC across the country.
I don't think we should pull guns from everyone. Everyone has a right to bear arms and a means to fight if necessary. But making openly available situations for children to have access to weapons and a means to implement them is unnacepptable. I live in a state where it is illegal to carry a weapon, a knife over four inches, any kind of mace; but that doesn't stop me from carrying and utilizing them IN MY DEFENSE.
There are no laws we could put in place to regulate such an ingrained American and human right. But we can all educate ourselves, put preventative measures in certain places, and we can all certainly refrain from being outwardly aggressive to anything remotely foreign from our train of thought.
Xoxo