The nation’s two largest education unions reiterated their opposition to arming teachers as a response to school shootings Monday, saying more guns on campuses will make them less safe. The American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association joined with Everytown for Gun Safety to oppose proposals in Florida and elsewhere to arm teachers and staff members in response to the Marjory Stoneman High School massacre, which left 17 dead. [More]
We prefer being helpless, thank you. And we demand you be helpless.
I am going out on a limb here and assuming they are fine with armed cops in the schools, but, for some reason that will remain a mystery, not with well trained, practiced, fellow teachers. Since all of my friends and I, and most people I meet at the range, are better shots than all of the police I know, this is anomalous in the extreme. Blind sheep putting all of their trust in the wolf.
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