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I'm going to ask you professional educators a serious question: How many more kids have to die because you are afraid of guns?
There have been multiple instances of ordinary citizens stopping mass shooters with their own legally possessed firearms. The Oregon mall shooter and the Texas church shooter are good examples of what happens when a law abiding citizen with a gun is present. When confronted, either by ordinary citizens or law enforcement with a firearm, the shooter's response has been to break off and flee, or to kill themselves on the spot.
My kids attend a school that is wide open. There are no fences, no checkpoints, no armed guards, not even unarmed security. I am concerned for their safety every day. I want to do whatever we can to protect them. One of those things, the one most likely to produce results, is having armed staff on site. But we can't do that because of the overwhelming fear and hatred most professional educators exhibit towards firearms. The only thing we seem to be able to even consider is to ban the object of those fears from society. The only thing we can even talk about is playing a gigantic game of whack-a-mole as we try to outlaw various firearm configurations and accessories in the belief that somehow prohibition will work with guns, when it's been a dismal failure with drugs and alcohol. To think differently is to be condemned and shouted down.
But banning guns is all we can consider doing. It's not reasoned debate. It's not logical thought. It's pure emotion. To think differently is to be condemned, publicly shamed, and shouted down. It's hatred, prejudice, and fear. Can we set those emotions aside for a moment? Can we set partisan politics aside for a moment? Can we turn off the political spin on both sides? Can we simply care about our kids and do what's most likely to save their lives? Please, professional educators, can you get past your own selfish interests and unreasonable fears for a just a little while so we can talk seriously about real solutions? My kids are precious to me. I don't want them to die because you're afraid of guns.
There have been multiple instances of ordinary citizens stopping mass shooters with their own legally possessed firearms. The Oregon mall shooter and the Texas church shooter are good examples of what happens when a law abiding citizen with a gun is present. When confronted, either by ordinary citizens or law enforcement with a firearm, the shooter's response has been to break off and flee, or to kill themselves on the spot.
My kids attend a school that is wide open. There are no fences, no checkpoints, no armed guards, not even unarmed security. I am concerned for their safety every day. I want to do whatever we can to protect them. One of those things, the one most likely to produce results, is having armed staff on site. But we can't do that because of the overwhelming fear and hatred most professional educators exhibit towards firearms. The only thing we seem to be able to even consider is to ban the object of those fears from society. The only thing we can even talk about is playing a gigantic game of whack-a-mole as we try to outlaw various firearm configurations and accessories in the belief that somehow prohibition will work with guns, when it's been a dismal failure with drugs and alcohol. To think differently is to be condemned and shouted down.
But banning guns is all we can consider doing. It's not reasoned debate. It's not logical thought. It's pure emotion. To think differently is to be condemned, publicly shamed, and shouted down. It's hatred, prejudice, and fear. Can we set those emotions aside for a moment? Can we set partisan politics aside for a moment? Can we turn off the political spin on both sides? Can we simply care about our kids and do what's most likely to save their lives? Please, professional educators, can you get past your own selfish interests and unreasonable fears for a just a little while so we can talk seriously about real solutions? My kids are precious to me. I don't want them to die because you're afraid of guns.