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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 05:47 AM EST |
Taking away their ability to protect themselves only takes away
their hope to
survive in such an incident.
You are assuming that
"their ability to protect themselves" is unrelated to the probability of "such
an incident". Think again. If the children of every school teacher have
reasonably easy access to weapons, likely weapons that are not checked upon for
telltale signs of use as often as those of gun lovers, you'll be hearing about
one incident per week rather than per year. Possibly with fewer average
killings per incident. But of course only until the trend of using handgrenates
or sniping the known gun-toting teachers first catches on.
I end up quoting
"To Kill a Mockingbird" on GrokLaw on an almost weekly base. Today's
quote:
“After all, though,” I said, “he was the deadest shot in the
county one time. He could—”
“You know he wouldn’t carry a gun, Scout. He
ain’t even got one—” said Jem. “You know he didn’t even have one down at the
jail that night. [Where a lynch mob turned up, as expected, and he tried talking
them out of lynching his client, a black defendant in a rape trial, something
which his kid daughter turning up there by disobedience managed by attempting
smalltalk and thus shaming the crowd into civility by accident rather than
design.] He told me havin’ a gun around’s an invitation to somebody to shoot
you.”
Well, or to quote Doonesbury from memory: "85% of gun-related
incidents happen between familiars. How do you, Mr Duke, reconcile this with
your calls for more weapons?" "Well, exactly my point. If your wife opens up on
you, would you not want to be in a position to return the fire?"[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jplatt39 on Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 11:22 AM EST |
Having lived around Newark during the crack years of the late eighties and in
several other places, the concept of allowing guns in a zone where a LOT of
people (students) are not going to make rational decisions is an invitation to
more shootings, not less. Allowing guns in the home is one thing. Allowing
them in school, if they are not carried by trained security professionals, is
quite another.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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