Yet another school shooting in America

[SOAPboy]

How long until a kid just takes a gun from a teacher who improperly stores it and shoots up a class?

A Week if the recent shooting trend is anything to go by.

[Eraser]

Reminds me of this:
https://www.theonion.com/nation-celebra ... 1819573798

[MKJ]

How long until a kid just takes a gun from a teacher who improperly stores it and shoots up a class?

A Week if the recent shooting trend is anything to go by.

lol

[Don Carlos]

How long until a kid just takes a gun from a teacher who improperly stores it and shoots up a class?

A Week if the recent shooting trend is anything to go by.

Ha! Sad but true.

[MKJ]

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[Doombrain]

Trumps blaming videos games.

[vesp]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43158994

The NRA have Trump (and the US congress) in their pockets.

This event won't have any bearing on gun laws in the US, and neither will any of the mass school shootings still to come.

[seremtan]

Trumps blaming videos games.

the Jack Thompson Manoeuvre

[Transient]

So it turns out there was an armed officer stationed at the school. He heard gunshots and did fuckall.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... ce-officer

According to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, that’s exactly what happened at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Even with training and a weapon, the officer stalled — and allowed the shooting to continue for about four to six minutes as he stood outside the building. The deputy, Scot Peterson, has since quit.

“Devastated. Sick to my stomach. There are no words. These families lost their children. We lost coaches. I’ve been to the funerals,” Israel said at a press conference on Thursday. Asked what the officer should have done, Israel responded, “Went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.”

This is more than just another horrific detail about the mass shooting that killed 17 people; it also directly contradicts the notion that simply putting a bunch of armed personnel in schools will stop shooters — the “good guy with a gun” theory.

[SOAPboy]

So it turns out there was an armed officer stationed at the school. He heard gunshots and did fuckall.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... ce-officer

Yeah. Said that.

That school, Had an armed guard. He "never encountered the shooter", AKA he hid in a fuckin closet like a pussy.

[MKJ]

But armed personnel on the scene responds faster than police officers!
Fake news!

[Doombrain]

Pistol vs. AR15. Too fucking right he hid.

[vesp]

Aye - an armed Deputy. Trained presumably not just to fire his weapon, but also how to use it against someone.. and still he chokes.

So how is arming up teachers going to do anything at all - maybe it's different in the US and all primary/secondary teachers are action heroes? (Do Americans think Kindergarten Cop is a documentary?)
Or maybe "Armed Response" becomes part of the syllabus for teacher training in the US. Jesus.

I'm already horrified at the idea that US schools regularly drill lock-downs and evacuations. We do a fire drill maybe twice a year.

We all realise the USA is gun-crazy, but i'm genuinely incredulous as to how "arming teachers" was a suggestion that wasn't immediately met with ridicule.

[Eraser]

Guys, guys, guys. Reason has nothing to do with it. The NRA themselves can come up with 100 arguments on why it would be better to at least have stricter restrictions on gun ownership. It's just that it doesn't fit their agenda.

[vesp]

Guys, guys, guys. Reason has nothing to do with it. The NRA themselves can come up with 100 arguments on why it would be better to at least have stricter restrictions on gun ownership. It's just that it doesn't fit their agenda.

Absolutely - money/power/influence. I get that - it's just crazy to look over at the US and see the civilian population that are foaming at the mouth in defense of it all just so that they get to keep their own guns and rifles.


I have US friends on facebook who seem to be fine with the idea that an armed teacher could have "taken down" the attacker. ie. shoot and kill him.
We're all desensitized to violence sure, but... the idea that a secondary school teacher would be fine with shooting and KILLING someone - that sort of thing fucks up police officers for crying out loud, and they want Mrs Smith the languages teacher to take on that mental burden? crazy.

[Doombrain]

What you don't realise is the guys at the NRA are great people and will do the right thing. Thoughts and prayers.

[Doombrain]

LOL. I don't even know why I give a shit, it's not even my country.

[Dirge Inferno]

America is stupid.

[seremtan]

So it turns out there was an armed officer stationed at the school. He heard gunshots and did fuckall.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... ce-officer

well obviously if he'd had more guns he would have felt confident enough to respond

[Eraser]

the idea that a secondary school teacher would be fine with shooting and KILLING someone

in front of a class full of children no less

[Eraser]

So it turns out there was an armed officer stationed at the school. He heard gunshots and did fuckall.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... ce-officer

well obviously if he'd had more guns he would have felt confident enough to respond

Should've given him a bazooka

[shaft]

From nyt article.

[seremtan]

Trump's autism confirmed

[phantasmagoria]

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An*

fuckin' yanks

[Transient]

Priorities, amirite?