- CrazzySnipe55
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Posted by: Gaara444
Just because cops are very well skilled doesn't mean your average citizen can't hold his own with a gun, especially against kids. You misunderstand. Cops ARE skilled. The average US citizens is not. The average gun owner is not, in comparison to cops.
Where do you live? Here in Kissimmee I have to take a gun safety course to get a license, and in that course they teach you the basics on handling a gun. Even though that's not the way it is most places, handling a gun is not the same as shoot/no-shoot training, accuracy training, etc.
The please elaborate, what point in this part were you trying to make other then throwing insults my way hoping I'll bite back in the same manner.I'm not trying to make insults. I'm saying that the average teacher is less skilled than the average police officer, severely so. Because of this, your point about asking me whether or not a military veteran loses their training once they become a teacher is null and voice because I didn't say teachers are completely incompetent, just less competent than the average cop. Those military veteran teachers are clearly going to still be skilled with firearms, but the average teacher they are not and so the point becomes null.
How many schools shootings were there in the 90's? 80's? 70's? Let's go back further. How about the 30's? The 20's?! They're an increase in them and you would have to blind to not see it. Today's numbers shouldn't be used ten years from now.Fine. Take the schools shootings in the last year. All of them. Now divide that number by the number of high schools in the country, and divide that by 180. That is the chance that, on any given school day, any given high school will play host to a school shooting. It is not a big number, I promise you that.
So you do live in the states, sorry but it isn't like that in Kissimmee. So what's the problem? If they can't defend their students (or defend themselves from the students) why should they still be hired? Being a teacher requires more then actually teaching. Why do you think schools urge kids to talk to them about family abuse? Teen pregnancy? Or other social issues that have nothing to do with teaching? Having a less versatile teacher isn't going to help anyone. Taking the life of another human being for a student is not nearly the same as talking with them about teen pregnancy, family abuse, etc. with them. One puts your life one the line and the other is a matter of whether or not you give a -blam!- about your students (which you obviously should). You probably have a lot of friends that you would have a lot of conversations with about a lot of things but would you be willing to shoot somebody and at the same time risk being shot for all of those friends? Even if your answer is yes I guarantee the average persons's is "no".