Watch Carol Burris explain why arming teachers is dangerous and ineffective.
The segment won’t work on a Mac but will work on a PC or a cell phone.
Great job, Carol!
Watch Carol Burris explain why arming teachers is dangerous and ineffective.
The segment won’t work on a Mac but will work on a PC or a cell phone.
Great job, Carol!

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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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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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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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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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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It works on my Mac. You have to have Adobe Flash activated.
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Carol Burris is very good at explanations.
She’s a good teacher 🙂
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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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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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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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It’s just SO sad.
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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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“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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Trump truly has no idea what he’s doing. He can’t even keep up a flimsy, revealing veneer.
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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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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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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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https://littlefreelibrary.org/impact-apply-police/
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The segment works fine on my Mac.
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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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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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