Most of the proposals / laws in place for arming teachers are for teachers to be carrying in the classroom.
Mental health is, to some extent, starting to feel like a red herring by those who neither want to address neither gun control nor mental health. On the surface, yeah, you gotta be mentally ill to go shoot people, right? Well… Wtf is mentally ill? The sunset of paranoid schizophrenics experiencing command hallucinations? Um, ok. The 6% that have / had PTSD? The 15% of people that have / had depression? This feels like a whole lot like blaming fucked up people, while simultaneously claiming you can’t do shit about it, because the goal is we don’t want to do shit about it because we love us some guns. Blame it on mental health, refuse to expand health care (Venn diagram of those against gun control and against universal health care has to be approaching a circle)!
The feds have provided funds for securing schools; the school in my old neighborhood became a closed campus with federal grants.
That gives the teacher a chance. The shooter will target the teacher first, so if he misses maybe the teacher will be able to pull, release the safety and get a shot off. Seems very unlikely, though. I suppose other teachers will be able to get involved.
I agree with your general points about arming teachers, school security, mental health being red herrings. They might as well just be honest and say we love guns and school shootings are a price we’re prepared to pay.
Laws, like societies, are meant to evolve. The country is way too flooded with guns and self-important radicals who will cling to them to pull an Australia, but something needs to be done to curtail the horrendous amount of gun violence plaguing the US.
So let’s spell it out. Trump is still a political player. He is not president (as you astutely noted) but he is still attempting to shape political discourse and policy in your fine nation.
I don’t even like Ted Cruz, some I’m sure would cheer on the guy telling Ted Cruz it’s all his fault. Others see an unhinged lunatic who should probably be put on the no fly list.
I agree, but the left has been taken over by radical death cultists who celebrate the murder of children, can’t wait 5 minutes after a tragedy to climb on the bodies of dead children to push for ineffective, illegal, or impractical measures, continue to hold power by impoverishing society, destroy the families and communities which provide stability for children, and stoke racial, social, and identitarian resentment for cheap political soundbites. Until the Democrats purge these radical cultists from the party (or at least silence them and take back control of their party), it is unlikely the issue will be improved.
I listened to Trump blather on about this and that pretty much what he’s got in mind, opening the asylums again. There’s a imo neglected thread about it somewhere.
Asylums over this
Just making sure the safety was off, right, dipstick?
You say you’re going to shoot up a school or rape/murder some girls then that’s premeditated intent. More than enough to lock someone away for 10 to 15 years and try to help them. By then only the true psychopaths with specific fetishes will get out and hunt. The troubled teen looking to go out with a bang probably isn’t going to. Plus if these kids know there’s a good chance they’ll get locked up before they even get started, they might reconsider.
In your book, you say that in an ideal world, 500,000 psychologists would be employed in schools around the country. If you assume a modest salary of $70,000 a year, that amounts to over $35 billion in funding. Are you seeing any national or state-level political momentum for even a sliver of these kind of mental health resources?
How much was sent to Ukraine again…?
Even if half the amount is given to schools for this, and maybe the psychologists cover 2-3 schools, it’s an improvement over now.
But, no, let’s have much bigger mass shootings far away that help MIC.
The authors offer some good points.
Will politicians and school boards push for it? Unlikely.
