again, I wasn’t talking about arming teachers, I was talking about having extremely and specially well trained police officers(or perhaps a whole new unit of law enforcement for guarding schools(I have to think of a good name for such)).
Still, a lot of the same questions apply. For example:
- Regardless, how do teachers [in this case, police officers] know who the good guy is, and who the bad guy is? How do we ensure there’s no friendly fire?
well, the uniformed trained cops are the only ones that would supposed to have guns and working together day after day in the school they would probably know each other by sight. In most cases the bad guy would be the one with the gun(not in uniform) who is shooting innocent kids. We can’t 100% guarantee against friendly fire, but we can make it unlikely via training and what I said above.
- What if the bad guy is surrounded by hostages? Are they expected to engage anyway?
obviously, this where quality training would help. Cops need to be trained to know when to shoot and when not to.
- If Chris Kyle, a highly trained marksman, and good guy with a gun, was gunned down in a shooting range, surrounded by other good guys with guns… what makes you think an (at best) amateur marksman will fare better?
He will certainly fair better than someone who is not armed!
- What if having hundreds of guns in a single building is… bear with me now… not a great fucking idea? What if that building was filled with our children? Doesn’t that make it… an even worse fucking idea?
If the choice is having armed cops to defend our kids vs. leaving our kids unprotected, I’ll choose armed cops. Also these “hundreds of guns” if that is how many there’d be, would have to be strictly regulated. I think any guns coming into to school would have to be on the cops’ person 100% of the time. No leaving them in bathrooms, no locked closet with guns . . . ect.