Not just that.
But if they allowed teachers to carry guns at school…
It wouldn’t be my sweet 3rd grade teacher Mrs Smith carrying
It would be my fucking crazy 4th grade teacher Mrs Shirley
I’d be alright with Mrs Smith carrying but she never would
I would never be ok with Mrs Shirley carrying, but she is the one that wants to
Sadly, this type of stuff and arming teachers is where we’re headed, because enough of the country views it as the logical response and a sure-fire defense. We’ll probably have to endure 5-10 active shooter situations in schools that did drills and armed teachers before anything else changes, and the next change will be arming even more faculty.
This is especially the case if it goes on a state by state basis, which it probably will for the time being.
Then one day, in 5-20 years, we’ll finally have outlasted enough boomers to be able to do the right thing.
Fucking boomers man. They need to fuck off and die already.
Meanwhile, apparently there is a credible threat of a plot to shoot up a movie theatre on October 4 when the new Joker movie premiers, and the FBI has alerted DOD, which is warning the military… Seems like maybe the FBI should alert the public, if they’re going to alert anyone?
I don’t know how credible Gizmodo is, but this seems legit. The author has a check mark on Twitter and nobody seems to be disputing it anywhere.
You’re an embarrassment to this forum.
They’re not going to change their minds unless gun violence directly affects them.
It’s entirely possible to read that post as attacking boomers for not doing squat since they are not victimized as often as younger people.
I think you’re overreacting to his schtick.
This is what i was thinking. They are training future shooters how to counter them by doing this.
I would be if it was one lone post, perhaps. He has a record of hoping for violence.
This is how they are w.r.t. every issue. As are lots of people in general, but especially boomers. It’s one of the things I hate most about mankind.
Having seen this in practice it’s fucking stupid, it’s very unlikely to actually benefit anyone if there is an active shooter, it’s terrorizing the kids and has a positive feedback that just makes everything worse, and for sure there’s a greater expectation of people getting accidentally hurt during these drills than there is of saving anyone. The police, the administrators and the parents who support this all suck.
I think firing a simulated gun is over the top, but I don’t get how this is substantially different from a fire drill or the earthquake drills we had in my school.
Police showing up in armored personnel carriers wearing body armor and pointing assault rifles at children and having them march around with their hands over their heads is different.
(and the gun wasn’t simulated - the bullet was - supposedly - and ask Jon-Erik Hexum, star of TV’s Voyagers!, if blanks are dangerous (you can’t - one killed him))
Sure, I agree this is over the top, like starting a controlled fire during a fire drill. But I’m not convinced it’s a terrible idea to rehearse what you do/where you go if students hear gunshots.
This is one of those West Wing kind of things. Sure, it’s possible that in some fantasy world of wonderfully responsible, thoughtful, and intelligent police departments and administrators and level headed parents, that Dr. Sidney Freedman will calmly explain to the children what might happen and what they can do. But, this is the real world and when you sign up for an Active Shooter Drill, this is what you’re getting.
Police and gun-freaks encourage these drills because they normalize shootings as an annoying part of life that you just have to deal with, like traffic or bad weather.
And they’re fucking militarizing the schools. It’s happening. Lots of them already have cops and fences and soon it will be walls and guards with assault rifles. The GEO Group (private prisons) can go into running schools.
He was a communist sympathizer and he refused to sign his draft papers.
I mean, we have active shooter training at my workplace and it isn’t a crazy-ass LARPing experience. I’m not convinced this isn’t an impossibility.
If they did to you what they did at my kids’ school, people at your workplace would quit or sue. You’re adults and they can’t get away with that shit.