Today is the last day to join, so if you want in on it, be sure to read over the rules and PM Shakespearicles!A gun fires at a school in my county, and this time a teacher is responsible. · 6:25pm Mar 23rd, 2018
"Students rise up to defend a teacher who fired a gun in class."
My thoughts after the jump.
The timing of this is astounding. I was reading the local paper which had this opinion piece, as well as a news article about what has been confirmed and the impact it's had so far. This happened in my city, where I live. Hell, it happened at the high school I graduated from. I really have no idea what this man was thinking. As a reserve police officer and city councilman you'd think he'd find bringing a firearm to school a bad idea. Hell, he teaches criminal justice. So he KNEW he had no legal right to bring that gun with him on campus. Just... what... was... he... thinking??
I'm not going to take away his effectiveness as a teacher. His students rallied to support him. Though some, I suspect, did it more for the broader debate now igniting over this teacher's head then because they actually want to save his job. No... I really think that if he's a good teacher, and if no one got seriously hurt (which no one did, thank the gods) then slap his ass with whatever minimum the law allows (most likely a fine) and let him go back to work.
Should he be city councilman anymore? For a city, by the way, that I fucking live in? Hell no, I think he lost that right. Should he be a reserve police officer anymore? Nooope, I'm pretty sure our boys in blue can find someone who can handle the lethal responsibility with a bit more common sense. Cops make mistakes. Those mistakes can have grave consequences against the people involved. This reserve cop, not even a full-timer, managed to screw up in a potentially lethal way around people's children while not even on duty.
Teachers do not need guns, Mister President.
I got assaulted by a kid and I am extremely glad they didn't let us have guns. Imagine if I had had one and it had gone off when I fell? Or if that kid had taken it off me? Or if it had been stolen out of my desk or left somewhere on accident?
It's a disaster waiting to happen and every teaher I know is dumbfounded that anyone anywhere thought at any point that teachers with guns was the viable way to go.