Clearly Lesson Not Learned

Idiot NRA gun kooks are now pushing to arm teachers and education professionals in response to gun violence in schools, violence which can only be addressed by limiting access to guns.  Let's just run their scenario, shall we!  Here are a few 'ifs' you need to address before your master plan comes to fruition, morons:

Meet your new Geometry teacher!

IF you are willing to overlook the reality, that most people do not like guns, nor do they want to own them, nor do they want to own them and have them around young children (you will not be able to force mandatory gun ownership for teachers)...

IF you can come up with the billions in dollars it would take for teachers to be able to afford the guns (you will not be able force teachers to pay for the guns out of their own money)...

IF you can figure out a way to quell the fears of parents who HAVE THE RIGHT to NOT HAVE guns waived in their kid's faces 24/7/365...

IF you can come up with the money for the gun training classes teachers will need, which is more than a three hour lecture in a community center; something more like a ten to twelve week course, similar to the military and police, so they can safely have the weapon in a school environment around kids...

IF you can get the additional money the teachers will need for additional training, such as 'weapons combat in an urban environment, under a high stress situation'; training which is an additional ten to twelve weeks (training which will help the teacher not only figure out best shooting angles and circumstances, but will teach the teacher, who won't be wearing body armor, how to attempt to avoid being shot, while potentially taking a kill shot on an individual wearing full body armor)...

IF all teachers who are willing to be armed in a school are willing to have the weapon on their hip, with live rounds in the chamber, and safety off at all times (it would be useless to have these weapons in their desks, as a gunman entering their room would immediately shoot first.  These guns would have to be on their hip, ready to fire)...

IF these teachers just happen to be teaching in the classroom where the assailant attacks, and are able to keep their wits about them, get into a shooting position, draw the weapon, take aim, and fire while the children around them are getting torn to pieces in front of their eyes at an alarming rate...

And IF the teacher isn't the first one shot in the carnage...

Then maybe, MAYBE, the teacher might be able to save some of the kids.  It's incredibly unlikely they'd be able to get the lucky shot before the bullets started to fly.  The only way this would happen is if the gun wielding maniac is similar to a comic book villain, announcing what he's planning to do before he does it.

And who would be liable if a gunman did kill a few kids in a classroom where a teacher had a gun?  Even if a teacher stopped a gunman before the majority of their students were killed, would the teacher be blamed for the deaths of the one or two kids who died because they didn't react instantaneously?  My guess is right wing pundits and gun kooks would blame the teacher, not the crazed individual shooting the place up.

If not every teacher is armed, let me point out some other flaws with this plan.

Would an armed teacher actually leave a classroom of terrified children to fend for themselves, as the teacher attempted to run across a school campus to where an attack was occurring?  It seems to me the better option would be to have that teacher stay with their kids in their classroom, to keep them safe.  Imagine if the teacher left and a second assailant killed the kids in their classroom.

I know gun kook; "we'll just install $100K bullet proof doors in every classroom in America, and then put $50K bullet proof glass on every window in every school in America!"  Who's going to pay the trillions for that, fools?

And for the teacher desperately trying to get to the shooting, unless you're one or two doors down from the incident, your response time would be inadequate.  How many kids would be dead before the teacher even got there?  In many of these mass shootings, the carnage is done in two minutes or less.

Let's remember we've already tested this scenario.  A few years back, a Texas pro-gun group, The Truth About Guns, attempted to show that if one of the writers at Charlie Hebdo was armed during the terror attack on their offices, the terrorists would've been stopped.  They ran the attack over and over again.  They KNEW the attack was going to happen.  They HAD GUNS ready to use.  Everything was in their favor, and they failed to stop the attack, EVERY TIME.  As a matter of fact, in every scenario they all died, outside of one person.  The only one who survived was the one who left the building the minute the shooting began.

Tell the NRA to stop with the worthless plans we already know WILL NOT WORK!  It's time for gun  restrictions, gun rules and gun limitations, NOW!