Posted by: Garland
Posted by: the Han
Posted by: xl OC Girl lx
Posted by: Mastergee
I feel we really needed another one of these threads.
This.
Also, I'm a supporter of the second amendment. Laws only affect those who obey them. If you ban guns, only those who are law-abiding citizens will get rid of their guns. The crazy psychopaths who are planning on shooting up a school.. well, you can bet that they'll easily find access to a gun. In reference to the CT shooting, had those teachers been carrying firearms in their desks, the shooter could have been taken down sooner.
Plus, I'm sure if someone was planning on doing a shooting somewhere, knowing that the people around him were armed, he would probably think twice about doing it.
i disagree with you slightly on this.
i dont think teacher should have guns IN SCHOOL for these reasons:
1) they could go over board with it and use it unnecessarilyA person this unstable or with such bad anger management issues has no business being a teacher to begin with.
Posted by: the Han
2) a student could get a hold of it.The gun should be kept on the teacher's person, and ideally the students will never know the teacher has it.
I still haven't heard a good reason to not have armed security guards in schools(armed with firearms of course).
More on topic, I'm for gun control, so long as by gun control you mean keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and crazies and not further limiting what law abiding citizens are aloud to own and carry or making them illegal outright. In fact, I'm 50/50 on whether or not we should make all fully automatic weapons legal as well. I mean on one hand, the only thing that full-auto fire is really strategically good for is suppressing a target/s, but on the other hand, I have to wonder how much more damage(if any more) a gunman could cause by just pointing a gun into a crowd and holding the trigger rather than firing on semi automatic.
[Edited on 12.26.2012 7:02 PM PST]