Finally some common sense

@Crimson67 look at my other comment on this post.

High five!

and as a teacher, I make mistakes, like typos! Lots and lots of typos, but that's where my brain is after teaching all day!

@Beach_slim that is just about the most ignorant statement I’ve seen in a long time.

I was a teacher - I would happily volunteer to carry - also all of my teacher and principal friends have told me they would carry too.

@Beach_slim because it makes zero sense. I work with a lot of kids in crisis in a school with limited resources, such as social workers, people who are trained to help kids deal with crisis. Your reply trivializes many issues and shows a lack of understanding.

@Beach_slim so where do you live? Do you see this for yourself? How do you know this happens? I work in a school. I am teacher. I speak from what I see every day. I work in a school that is 100% title 1. Please enlighten me as to what your experience is.

@Beach_slim well it appears that we live in different worlds and experience different things. I stand by everything I have said. You are certainly entitled to your opinion, and I will stand by mine.

Yup.

while i would absolutely own up to being left of centre politically, I fail to see how your comment addresses the issue of teachers and guns. Or even how you come to the conclusion that being on the left is a new religion. Left or right we all tend to ignore facts that don't fit our particular view of the world

It was my knee-jerk reaction to the knee-jerk reactions of other comments. I hear this types of comments from left wingers. I have nothing against left-wingers who are true thinker. The same a applies to right-wingers, but most are just knee-jerkers

No, Sir - they’re conscientious, educated thinkers willing to step outside the box. They don’t settle for lies, pay close attention, and do their homework. They’re not easily duped, nor tolerant of such attempts. They’re progressive, when compared to the masses, which still include (within my nation) a majority of religious. If you support religion, you support ignorance; if not, you tend toward atheism. If any national (US) political party’s match a thinking Atheist, it’s the party with the largest tent - and I don’t mean revival … but the party best described as herding cats, for good reason

Maybe you should join the Conservative Atheists group on this site so you can only hear your own opinions on a loop.

yup my first thought was imagine being a black teacher having shot dead a white gunman and now the police arrive....

Wasn't it last Friday a vet with PTSD shot up the mental health clinic in California.

$$$$$$$ They've already cut costs to education, paying guards come out of those costs. Some schools, in prosperous areas with good tax bases, could do it, but I think the majority just don't have the money.

@Tominator There are plenty of vets who are fit to fill the job.

@MrPKitty Would be a traffic start for a federal lottery. All proceeds to protect kids and employ veterans.

@Crimson67 TYFYS Desert Shield Storm here Have been around other vets down and out. I just think that vets that have been struggling the ones that want and need help should get to be at the front of the line. Personally I am injured took 7 years 7 individuals appeals to get help. Mostly because my medical jacket was misplaced lost in the red tape hole.