Carol Burris on CNN Headline News: Why Arming Teachers is a Terrible Idea

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1. NYC public school parent says:

   February 22, 2018 at 3:05 pm

   I thought it was interesting to see that even the teacher on CNN — who was a Trump voter who still supported him strongly — explained what a terrible idea it was. She asked the main question: Exactly where to teachers keep these protective guns? No one in the NRA or Trump administration will actually answer that question because as soon as they do they look like idiots. “They’ll keep their assault weapon strapped to their leg”. “They’ll have it locked up in a closet that anyone can get into”. “They’ll walk around with their assault weapons loaded and ready to fire at any kid who looks suspicious.”

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2. retired teacher says:

   February 22, 2018 at 3:31 pm

   Carol gave informed answers with concrete examples of why guns in teachers’ hands would not address the problem. The CNN video is also on the NPE’s Facebook page..

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3. John Doe says:

   February 22, 2018 at 3:35 pm

   Isn’t this country was supposed to be a commune of happy future enterprisers? Instead it is a corral for egomaniacal individuals, who prize their own interests above everyone’s else. Fences everywhere? Guards everywhere? Metal scanners everywhere? This is crazy.

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4. icompleat says:

   February 22, 2018 at 3:50 pm

   Well done. Interesting that President Trump’s proposal to arm teachers is a version of previous NRA proposals.

   The Snopes website has an article about probes into possible connections between the NRA and wealthy Russians. If I’m reading it right, there’s a real chance NRA donations to the Trump campaign were financed by Russia. This might sound incredible, but lots of incredible things have been happening lately.

   https://www.snopes.com/2018/02/16/did-kremlin-give-money-to-nra/

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   • John Doe says:

     February 22, 2018 at 4:32 pm

     The Kremlin also designed the AR-15 or, as it affectionally called nowadays, the modern sporting rifle. Then the Kremlin gave the blueprints to Colt for Americans to shoot their neighbors with style and efficiency.

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5. Arthur Goldstein says:

   February 22, 2018 at 3:53 pm

   It works on my Mac. You have to have Adobe Flash activated.

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6. Chiara says:

   February 22, 2018 at 4:55 pm

   Carol Burris is very good at explanations.

   She’s a good teacher 🙂

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7. alphawolf1 (@alphawolf1) says:

   February 22, 2018 at 5:30 pm

   Some people are not built mentally or physically to handle a weapon let alone a split second it takes and kill a person. It’s way more that shooting at a target at a gun range that doesn’t move or have a weapon coming at you. It’s like the martial arts, it takes a lot of time and practice and most don’t have it.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     February 22, 2018 at 6:05 pm

     It is very likely that nervous teachers would miss the target and kill their own students. Or another teacher. Or the halls would fill with armed teachers.

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     • Threatened Out West says:

       February 22, 2018 at 7:19 pm

       Or the police respond to the shooting and kill the teacher, thinking that he/she is one of the shooters. Our police department has told us that staff and administrators should NOT be in the hall in the event of a shooting, because we will be shot.

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     • Norwegian Filmmaker says:

       February 22, 2018 at 9:14 pm

       It’s just SO sad.

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     • Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

       February 23, 2018 at 1:12 am

       No kidding. Arming teachers is a really stupid notion. Only idiots think this is a solution.

       This bothered me. It’s easy to do in chaos.
       http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-student-mistaken-gunman-knew-move-made-end/story?id=53258417

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8. SomeDAM Poet says:

   February 22, 2018 at 6:01 pm

   “AIM”

   VAM the teachers for their aim
   At the gun-club firing range
   Keep the ones who make the grade
   Only ones who should be paid

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9. Akademos says:

   February 22, 2018 at 7:33 pm

   Trump truly has no idea what he’s doing. He can’t even keep up a flimsy, revealing veneer.

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10. bethree5 says:

    February 22, 2018 at 7:59 pm

    Carol Burris gave a nice snappy but comprehensive three-point answer, well done.

    Arming teachers &/or any regular school staff – as insurance against future school shootings – is such a ludicrous idea, there must be hundreds of reasons why it’s a loser. A half-dozen have already been mentioned here in just 12 posts. I suspect we can come up with lots more.

    The first one that strikes me is really just a paraphrase of alphawolf1’s. A citizen trained in the safe handling and discharge of a gun is not the same animal as person trained to protect the public in response to an active shooting situation.

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11. ponderosa says:

    February 22, 2018 at 8:23 pm

    As if I needed another reason not to get gun training: I’ve heard that shooting a powerful gun causes brain damage. Energy pulses through the brain as with IED explosions or football helmet collisions.

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12. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

    February 22, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    Libraries not guns.

    In 2017, Little Libraries gifted 100 Little Free Libraries to law-enforcement agencies across the country, But this is too sane.

    Great video by Carol Burris.

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13. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

    February 22, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    https://littlefreelibrary.org/impact-apply-police/

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14. Nick Andreacci says:

    February 23, 2018 at 6:21 am

    The segment works fine on my Mac.

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15. Mamie Krupczak Allegretti says:

    February 23, 2018 at 7:47 am

    A powerful letter from a teacher.
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/health/a-letter-from-a-furious-teacher-to-lawmakers-trnd/index.html

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16. Fred Smith says:

    February 23, 2018 at 11:31 am

    Guns for the teachers!:
    A modest proposal from President Perv.
    Makes for bad satire as Swift turns in his grave.
    Kill a few grizzlies should they drop by your classes
    Trump and DeVos, two moronic asses.

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