45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 4)
Discussion
roachcoach said:
I wouldnt trust Zuckerburg with a f
king godlfish.
king godlfish.Halb said:
I wonder if this will go anywhere
Remember Trump is not a cause but a symptom of malaise in politics, the logical endgame of buying votes with lies. Something's got to change and I don't see anyone other than Zuckerberg with the means and will to provide an alternative.
Digger said:
Has anyone asked the Teachers?
There is a stat somewhere on the BBC that says it is something like 20% in favour.Would I want to be an armed teacher? The problem with spree shootings is that the shooter often has the element of surprise, so if you are an armed teacher you will still be at a disadvantage. Worse, guess who will be shot first by surprise?
Even in a shoot out things are not likely to be always the perfect solution where the attacker is stopped dead with no other injuries, from the FBI report linked from the BBC article
"Law enforcement suffered casualties in 21 (46.7%) of the 45 incidents where they engaged
the shooter to end the threat. This resulted in 9 officers killed (4 of whom were ambushed in
a shooting) and 28 wounded"
That's casualties from trained armed people where (mainly) surprise was no longer a factor and they knew what they were walking into.
Then of course arming all the teachers you get the drip drip drip of deaths via single shootings, accidents, suicides, application of force when not needed, human error etc. Those are not as reportable as spree shootings though.
Blackpuddin said:
How hard would it be to install airport-style scanners in schools?
I think the problem is that many of these school shooters just turn up & start blasting away. I don't think they'd be deterred by a scanner by a turnstile.Unless you have well trained armed guards all around the sites I'm not sure there's an answer.
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