Einherjar86
Active Member
Actually, bear attacks is a pretty sound reason if you ask me. I'd be happy knowing my child's teacher can kill a giant beast if they need to. Happy coincidence, they might also stop someone trying to shoot up the school.
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All unlikely situations that aren't convincing one way or another.
I don't think it should be some sweeping mandate, I think it should be up to the teacher if they want to carry a firearm, let the schools regulate it heavily with extensive check ups or whatever they need to do, but having gun free zones with zero wiggle room is pure insanity at this point, until the mental health issues can be sorted out.
The extent of my agreement is probably that I don't think making schools gun-free zones solves the problem of school shootings, although I don't think liberals actually believe this. It's obviously untrue.
I'm not sure that I agree that making schools gun-free zones is pure insanity though. It strikes me that gun-free zones are only one element of a multi-pronged effort which has to include healthcare and regulation (this doesn't mean confiscation).
Government oversight produces black markets, there's no way around that; but examples of self-regulation tend to involve conveniently localized areas and a specific demographic. I do not think that examples of self-regulation can be expanded to include population-dense areas. I'm for gun control because I do not trust the proposed evenness and consistency of self-regulation.