Reader Carolmalaysia writes:

”Generally, I’m against teachers packing heat. I’ll make an exception in the case for young Trump’s 2nd grade music teacher. If she had overreacted our country wouldn’t have an IDIOT for president. That, however, is the only time a teacher should have had a gun.

“Here’s what Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal“:

“Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid. In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye. I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled. I’m not proud of that, but it’s clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a forceful way.”

Mitchell Robinson explains why it is wrong to arm teachers, and what we should do instead.

He begins:

“Teachers can’t get their schools to pay for the professional development they need for the jobs they have now. Most teachers I know are paying out of pocket for travel to and from conferences, registration fees, professional membership dues, and graduate courses. Where’s the money going to come from to purchase each teacher a weapon and provide the training needed to become proficient?

“Will we be evaluated on our shooting accuracy on a 4 point rubric, with competitions for earning a rating of “highly effective”?

“Will we need to post a daily shooting objective on the white board: “Teacher will be able to hit an assailant with the first shot fired 80% of the time from a distance of 50 yards.”

“Will high school teachers get the newest models of weapons and pass down the broken and outmoded ones to middle and elementary schools?

“Will teachers with the highest target shooting scores be given the “plum” teaching assignments, AP classes, and cushiest schools?

“Will teachers need to purchase their own ammunition, bought on sale at Target or WalMart and shelved with the “Back to School” items, like notebooks and backpacks?

“Will music and art teachers not get their own weapons, because their subjects aren’t “required”?

“Will teachers in charter schools be held to the same expectations as teachers in traditional public schools?

“Will parents who home school their children be required to purchase guns and go through state-mandated training?”

Read on.

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 said I was going to post only once a day. I meant it. I am starting a new book.

But the massacre at Majory Stoneman Douglas has enraged me. I am obsessed with defending the children and stopping future slaughters. I am in awe of the energy and passion of the students who survived the shooting rampage. I want to support them in any way I can.

Arming teachers is a terrible idea. This administration will do anything to pander to the NRA, which donated $30 million to the Trump campaign. What a boon for the Pro-Death Lobby to sell millions more guns to arm teachers with handguns, which will be ineffectual against an AR 15 or other assault weapons.

If the Trump administration wants to secure schools in the short run, let him call out the National Guard in every state and let them patrol the entrance to the school to protect against shooters. Let the federal government pick up the tab. Let students learn and teachers teach in peace, with no guns whatever in the school.

The only long-term and realistic solution is to ban weapons of mass killings, like the AR 15. Let the hunters keep single-shot rifles for their hobby. Buy back the AR 15s and similar semi-automatic weapons now in circulation. Make it a crime to own or possess one for anyone but the military. Military weapons should not be bought or sold at gun shows or online or anywhere else.

More guns, more killings. Fewer guns, fewer killings.

Anything less than banning assault weapons is a fraud.

Arthur Goldstein dissects Trump’s idotic plan to arm teachers and explains why he doesn’t want to be armed. He has his hands full being a teacher. Trump is pandering to the NRA and wants to sell more guns, and they don’t care who buys them.

Trump doesn’t hear you. He doesn’t hear the students. He hears the NRA. He had to bring a crib sheet to his meeting with parents and students. The last written point was “I hear you.” What kind of a person brings a written reminder to say that at a “listening session?” Someone who isn’t listening.

The NYPD stat for hitting the target in a gun fight, he says, is 18%. What would it be for a teacher with a handgun facing a homicidal killer with an AR 15?

“If you’re Donald Trump, you think the classroom will be a safer place with a gun in it. You think that teachers have nothing else to do, and will instantly transform into Vin Diesel and hop into action when killers come in. Evidently, when the criminal enters the classroom with an AR-15, the teacher will pull out a handgun and subdue him. If I were a killer, I’d make it a point to enter the classroom and shoot the teacher first, just in case. I don’t think you need to be a rocket scientist to come to that conclusion.

“But what if I manage to get my gun out in time? What if I miss? What if I miss and hit one of the kids? What if I miss, hit one of the kids, and the gunman puts down seven or twelve more while I deal with my shock? What if I’m in the middle of a really great lesson and don’t want to interrupt it by shooting at the gunman? And what if I have a nervous breakdown, and rather than scream at the kid who made me mad, shoot him dead? Maybe I’m tired of calling his parents.

“I don’t think I’d do anything like that, but who knows? Cops aren’t perfect. They make mistakes, and being cops is their job. It’s not my job. I don’t even want to be dean. Why do I want to deal every single day with the most problematic students in the building? Sorry, but it’s all I can do to deal with the problematic students in my classes. Other people want to be deans. Should they be armed? I think not.”