Toronado3800
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Every mass shooting is against a soft (unarmed) target.
I'll agree with throwing four more armed cops in every school FWIW. This is just an example of a bad decision.
On an individual level, I'd PROBABLY be able to do something heroic to try to save kids I didn't know. I THINK I would.
It would still be HEROIC though and not a common action. A fellow who pulls up lame shouldn't be a cop. Not sure how much I'd prosecute him though....maybe go after the pension saying, "when you signed up to be a cop, you signed up to be a hero, and you weren't so we're not paying out".
Its a tough line though. My kid, I save or die trying. Other kids, or lord knows an adult, I might not reach as far in front of the oncoming train to save.
Having armed teachers changes the equation.
Does having real security at the school not?
I've met a lot of teachers. Gals who were Education Majors seemed to take a liking to me, they like immature fellows maybe lol. I think we may be better just paying real professionals to guard these schools and make them hard targets instead of coping out and not taxing gun sales by expecting education majors to defend your children.
When the disaster hits, you do anything you can to save a life, including your own. Look at any avalanche, where the people are frantically digging hoping to stumble across a victim. Or a fire, where untrained people rush to try and save a child, or a pet, or an old woman.
What a gun does is give you a chance. Just as a First Aid Kit doesn’t make you a qualified Trauma Surgeon, a gun doesn’t make you Rambo. Just as a couple tools in the trunk of your car doesn’t make you a Master Mechanic, the gun doesn’t make you heroic.
What the first aid kit does, what the tools in the trunk do, is give you a chance to affect the outcome. If the situation is publicized, and the future shooters know that some of the teachers are armed, then he has to factor that into his planning. Now he has an unknown number of armed individuals coming at him from any number of dirctions. Anything behind him is not safe, or secure, but is a potential avenue of a counter attack.
It makes it harder. It makes it harder to plan out. It makes it harder to get as far with. Think of it this way. You’re going to run against a guy who is slower than you in a race for the 200 meter hurdles. No biggie, you’re faster. But now, all the people lining the course, can rush out at you and slow you down. Only one will, but which one? You can’t take your eyes off of any of them. You have to plan for any of them to come rushing at you. While you’re studying the crowd, you’ll screw up and knock the hurdle down.
A gun doesn’t guarantee you’re going to survive the fight, or even win the fight. It just gives you a fighting chance when that is all you have left. You could still die. You could still fail to save even your own life, much less the lives of those around you. But we are humans. We are notorious for going down swinging. Some of our greatest and most often talked about historical events are where people with no chance of success, just refused to give up. They kept fighting. So long as they had something to fight with, they keep fighting.
The Military Code Of Conduct states that I will not surrender so long as I have the means to resist. As long as you have a way to fight, you keep on fighting. But in a gun battle, without a gun, you don’t have that ability. You are just a victim. You are just waiting for a miracle, and waiting on God to save you is a plan, but it is one that historically hasn’t born as much fruit as swinging at the impossible odds.
I don’t mind the danger, or the risk, or the threats. I just want to have a fighting chance if the exceedingly unlikely becomes the horrific reality.
Great. Lets man up and put a real guard in each class if necessary
Are you too timid to? Do you need Sarika to defend your children?