This is just more of the same we keep hearing. Until we get armed guards in school (or teachers who can carry) and, in appropriate cases, prosecute the legal owners of the guns used, we can just expect to see more if this.
Unfortunately the 'training' teachers are getting about what to do in this situation is at best, shockingly ignorant. Like the teacher who led her students into a windowless room to keep them safe! My mother is a teacher and we discuss these shooting regularly, she has been instructed to use equally absurd tactics. Luckily, her classroom has a window and she has some preservation instinct (for herself and her students). Plus, she's my mom!! I told her to hell with the teacher training, if you hear gun shots in the building-BUG OUT!
All the arguments against armed school guards or staff have no valid basis, same goes for the 'let's hide under our desks and wait to get shot' tactic. Thankfully we don't much hear about the 'throw school supplies at the shooter and rush them' tactic anymore; the Sandy Hook took care of that. Yes, doing any one of these sounds crazy---that's actually what teachers are being told to do! I understand schools are responsible for keeping track of the kids while they are there, but what so wrong with training teachers to get their students out of harms way? Always have a bug out plan!!
What usually happens when people without guns go up against people with guns?
Last edited by Sierra280; December 14, 2013 at 06:27 PM.
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