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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

After calls for gun safety, Tennessee votes to arm teachers

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After calls for gun safety, Tennessee votes to arm teachers

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    How long until a pissed, stressed teacher threatens or even shoots a kid?

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      More likely is that one of them will leave it in the bathroom after having removed it to take a shit. Happens a decent amount of times with school resource officers.

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        Or a good teacher who knows they’re neither trained nor paid enough to warrant the responsibility will keep it locked up very tightly and in the panic forget the code / lose the key, and then they’ll be the scapegoat after everything ends.

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        That sort of thing has already been happening for years with the so-called “safety” officers station in schools

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          Almost like police aren’t trustworthy with firearms.

          • gregorum@lemm.ee
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            ACAB

            • Arbiter@lemmy.world
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              Hell yeah brother.

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          Literally happened in my daughter’s former middle school.

          https://www.wthitv.com/news/student-finds-a-gun-in-a-vigo-county-middle-school-bathroom/article_667efd34-e6ee-11ee-9ca7-87f96a33c604.html

          So glad we took her out of that hellhole.

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      Or until an angry teenager just takes the gun away from his teacher and uses it instead of having to bring one from home.

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      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-teacher-arrested-bringing-guns-preschool-threatening-shoot-c-rcna148667

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        This shit just writes itself…

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    Will they give guns to all the teachers, good and bad alike? Then I guess we will find out if the good teachers with guns can stop the bad teachers with guns.

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    Tennessee is an idiot fest. Next we will have reports of teachers gunning down kids that piss them off.

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    Make them wear helmets and camo too lol! Stay frosty, teachers

    Also no, you can’t borrow a dollar with your McDonald’s-salary-havin-ass. Find some bootstraps to do something with.

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    And teachers will have to purchase their own forearm and firearm training. Though knowing Tennessee, they wouldn’t require any training whatsoever anyways because that state is full of braindead morons.

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    Ytubers joked about this, sadly it seems reality doesn’t realize it supposed to parody…

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    May I presume Firearms will be a new line item in this public school system’s already inadequate budget?

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    Why would a teacher who makes shit money want to take one the liability and responsibility of carrying a gun around school? It’s either gonna be crazy teachers who volunteer for the job, or it’ll be like the resource officers during school shootings who run away at the first sign of trouble

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    In the late 80s, I lived in Bohemia, NY, in some shitty town on Long Island. I was the only asian student in the town. A teacher named Mrs. Thompson hit me multiple times while calling me racial slurs and while the vice principal watched.

    Let’s not really solve one problem with a whole new set of problems.

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