Michigan Governor Rick Snyder vetoed a bill that would allow
“highly trained” people to carry concealed weapons in schools and churches.
His veto was no doubt prompted by the massacre of school
kids and teachers in Connecticut .
But taking emotion out of the argument for one minute, does
banning concealed weapons in schools and churches help protect students and
parishioners or leave them unprotected.
I don’t see a problem of training teachers in using firearms
which they could store locked in their classrooms; at least when they heard
shots ring out, they would not be just sitting ducks but could protect their
kids.
You notice that as soon as the shooter hears cops coming
after him, he commits suicide. Knowing teachers are armed might dissuade him
all together from entering a school to shoot innocent kids and teachers.
I know this is starting to sound like a Wild West movie but
what we are dealing with is our modern reality, something my generation never
had to go through; all we had were nuns with rulers.
I know that banning assault weapons would help and so would
very strict background checks but here, the shooter’s mother purchased the guns
and took her sons to a practice range knowing full well that one of her sons
was a mental case…how do you prevent that?
I think it is about time we started thinking outside the box
and start thinking logically how best to protect our kids and trained, armed
teachers is not so crazy as it first sounds.
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