Florida superintendent: We don't need to arm teachers

[mystery-ak]

Florida superintendent: We don't need to arm teachers
By Brett Samuels - 02/21/18 08:51 PM EST

The head of the school district where 17 people were killed last week in a mass shooting pushed back on Wednesday against President Trump’s suggestion that arming teachers could to prevent future shootings.

“Some of the dialogue I’ve heard recently is about arming teachers. We don’t need to put guns in the hands of teachers,” Florida's Broward County superintendent Robert Runcie said, prompting raucous applause from the crowd.

“You know what we need? We need to arm our teachers with more money in their pocket,” he added, speaking on CNN ahead of a televised debate on reform needed to prevent future school shootings.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/374992-florida-superintendent-we-dont-need-to-arm-teachers

[edpc]

If anyone who wants a weapon is watching this joke of a meeting, you should probably take off work tomorrow and visit your local gun shop before the prices go through the roof.

[SkyKing]

They could end this guys job and give the savings to the teachers. Someone so idiotic shouldn't be in charge.
 

[Applewood]

They could end this guys job and give the savings to the teachers. Someone so idiotic shouldn't be in charge.
 

People applauded this idiot, and that's what is wrong here.  There are ways to deter such violence besides taking firearms away from law-abiding, non-violent citizens, but these people won't even consider them.  They won't be satisfied until firearms are banned.  That's what they are focused on here.  They really don't care about the kids' safety in spite of what they claim.

[goatprairie]

What is missing in all the hysteria is some sane pol or talking head to cite the numbers of times average citizens use guns for self defense. Even if it's only one tenth of the claim by some people (two to three million times annually), citizens use them for legitimate self defense far more often than a nut goes off killing people.
No matter what feel good measures are taken, there will be senseless mass shootings/killings  in the future. It might not even be a gun.  Killers have discovered that motor vehicles work just fine in slaughtering innocents.
Leftists are determined to abolish or gut the 2nd amendment. They must be stopped.

[Applewood]

What is missing in all the hysteria is some sane pol or talking head to cite the numbers of times average citizens use guns for self defense. Even if it's only one tenth of the claim by some people (two to three million times annually), citizens use them for legitimate self defense far more often than a nut goes off killing people.
No matter what feel good measures are taken, there will be senseless mass shootings/killings  in the future. It might not even be a gun.  Killers have discovered that motor vehicles work just fine in slaughtering innocents.
Leftists are determined to abolish or gut the 2nd amendment. They must be stopped.

Thing is, you can cite facts and figures, or you can propose alternative solutions, but they will all be rejected.  I am surrounded by liberals in real life.  One of them still lives in the 1960s , peace and love, hippie generation.  Of course, she thinks guns should be outlawed.  So when I try to reason with her, tell her that banning guns won't solve the problem ad suggesting alternatives, she shuts me out.  These people are single-minded and you can't persuade them, no matter how hard you try.  Everything to them is emotional.  Reason and logic doesn't enter into the conversation.

[thackney]

Some of the schools in Texas has been allowing staff to be armed (after training) for years.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/22/texas-school-sign-our-teachers-have-guns-and-theyre-not-afraid-to-use-them/?utm_term=.7b6afe11f651



http://www.gopusa.com/w-texas-students-feel-safe-with-armed-school-staff/

[Restored]

Well, not arming the teachers hasn't been working out so well.

[WingNot]

Well, not arming the teachers hasn't been working out so well.

I heard raising teachers salaries will stop a bullet and protect students from a person hell bent on killing people in the school.

[goatprairie]

Well, not arming the teachers hasn't been working out so well.

Well, they should be put no-guns-allowed signs in front of the buildings. That always stops killers....a least two percent of the time. Just because 98% of mass shootings occur in gun free zones is no reason to stop using the signs.
 I hope i'm being sarcastic enough.