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It would strictly be voluntary Isaac Send a noteboard - 30/12/2012 03:02:18 AM
Is how anyone thinks it could /actually/ work. For one, the teachers obviously couldn't keep the guns on their person during the day. It would be too easy for a kid to grab it and hurt himself or others. So, the gun would need to be kept locked away. This, in turn, would mean it would be extremely difficult to for a teacher to actually get to the gun in a time of crisis.


Outside of Hollywood pulling a gun out of someone else's holster is parallel or harder than getting their wallet or snapping their bra, especially if a holster is under a jacket or has a thumb break. Thumb breaks (a strap holding the thing in the holster with a snap usually) are pretty routine for people who keep unconcealed weapons to prevent grab attempts or the thing falling out if you bump something or roll or whatever. It's really not an issue. Typically when we think off armed teachers we envision a shoulder rig with a thumb break, that's not really a setup you can yank.

I don't think teachers should have guns, but I cannot see a way in which it could practically work.


The problem we encounter with people on this is usually that because they don't want it they will look for any excuse to claim it is impractical. If you don't want it that is fine, but it is definitely practical and safe. Keep in mind we're also not talking about something mandatory or uncontrolled, a school would have the ability to say 'only under a jacket, only with a thumb break, only if you complete X courses, not in these environments' and so on and meet no objection from most supporting this unless the rules were blatantly stupid or designed to make it nigh impossible.
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Poll: 54 percent view NRA favorably - 28/12/2012 04:23:35 AM 915 Views
Hahahaha. That is full of shit. OMG. Thanks for the laughs. *NM* - 28/12/2012 06:30:08 AM 375 Views
I have this to say about that... - 28/12/2012 07:10:52 AM 711 Views
That was rather long but probably one of the best things I've read this year - 28/12/2012 02:31:24 PM 491 Views
Excellent article by a knowledgable individual armed with facts. *NM* - 28/12/2012 04:36:23 PM 245 Views
See my response to Novo. - 28/12/2012 06:28:00 PM 578 Views
please cite the errors, manipulations, or lies. - 28/12/2012 09:30:28 PM 527 Views
Great read, thanks for posting! *NM* - 28/12/2012 05:52:29 PM 249 Views
Thanks for posting that, I enjoyed it a lot - 29/12/2012 01:36:33 AM 498 Views
his premise is "there's already too many guns so why bother trying anything at all now" - 07/01/2013 06:27:20 PM 563 Views
I don't think that's his sole premise but it's also quite true - 07/01/2013 07:05:20 PM 594 Views
i think you're missing a piece of the puzzle - 07/01/2013 07:23:02 PM 513 Views
I'm not missing it, I just don't think it's wise or especially moral - 07/01/2013 09:36:05 PM 556 Views
moral has nothing to do with it, imho - 07/01/2013 11:26:00 PM 604 Views
Re: moral has nothing to do with it, imho - 08/01/2013 05:40:46 AM 480 Views
last thoughts..... - 08/01/2013 05:18:35 PM 498 Views
Well I was referring more to the timing of collecting data. - 29/12/2012 04:28:01 AM 688 Views
Is that the same Gallup that said 54% of America would vote Romney? - 28/12/2012 06:15:43 PM 602 Views
Once again data is data.....feel free to cite other polling data. *NM* - 28/12/2012 06:38:29 PM 264 Views

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