Now, I'll point out some facts: The Maryland school shooter didn't use an assault weapon(as the majority of school shooters and shooters in general don't), he wasn't legally allowed to own the pistol he used, and none of Maryland's strict gun control laws in anyway stopped or hindered him. What did stop him was effective, rapid and armed response. And the FBI's findings regarding active shooters is that unarmed civilian response is roughly as effective as armed police response in terms of stopping shooters.
I've also been meaning to address this whole "If we give teachers guns, they'll just shoot black kids" fallacy. The first thing to address is that POLICE ARE NOT HELD TO THE SAME STANDARDS OF THE LAW IN REGARD TO LETHAL FORCE. Almost universally, Police shootings are judged based on the "Facts as they appeared to the officer at the time of the shooting", which is why a Police officer who shoots a Tyrone for reaching for his wallet doesn't get charged with murder or manslaughter. Civilians have to prove that they were responding to a lethal threat, cops don't. Even in cases like Zimmerman and Martin, the problem there was a lack of witnesses and evidence to show that Trayvon didn't pose a threat to Zimmerman. In a class room of 32 kids, there's a lot of witnesses to say "DeShawn was unarmed, and Teacher Man murdered him". This also doesn't address the fact that I haven't heard of a SINGLE FUCKING CASE where a teacher shot an unarmed black or minority student for no reason, even though a THIRD OF THE STATES IN THE UNION ALLOW TEACHERS TO CARRY. if this was such an inevitable and likely thing to happen... Like, how come we haven't heard about it?
This shit is literally the left's version of "we can't allow transgenders to use bathrooms because of THE CHILDREN!". It's hyped up bullshit. Stop this. And I'm not even a proponent of arming teachers. I don't particularly like the idea, but it's not because I'm worried about the cost, or Teachers shooting black kids, or, schools turning into wild west shoot outs. I don't like the idea because it's a dramatic reaction to what is a STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT PROBLEM. School kids are not in more danger than they were in the 80s or 90s. This is not an epidemic.
And the proposals to "fix" this epidemic can be shown, time and time again, to be ineffective at their supposed goal: they don't stop it. I'm not going to support laws that restrict my rights, because you THINK they might help stop a problem that isn't even a fucking blip on the radar. Ain't gonna do it. I ain't gonna support laws that restrict anyone's rights, just because someone is scared of something that is about as likely as a lightning strike. Oh, wait, 1 in 700 people get struck by lightning, but only 1 in 2.5 million school children are shot and killed at school. Sorry, even LESS LIKELY THAN GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. I want you to think about that: Your child is more likely to be killed by a lightning bolt out of the sky than to be murdered in their classroom.
You wanna stop gun violence, then you gotta make actual attempts to do so. This means looking at the different types of gun violence and deciding what we do to combat them. Inner City poor black kids are a different problem set than wife beaters, which are in turn a different set of problems from middle age, middle class white guys who eat their own .45s in their garage. There is not a one-size-fits-all solution to these problems, and any attempt to describe them as simple problems is a goddamned lie.Statistics: Posted by Bonefish — Sat Mar 24, 2018 4:40 pm
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