Stop the world, I want off.

**QuietShootr** · 12-28-09, 09:21

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ed..._self_defense/

Guns, teachers, and self-defense
December 28, 2009

I AM a math teacher at Brockton High School, the site of a school shooting earlier this month.

Current school security procedures lock down school populations in the event of armed assault. Some advocate abandoning this practice as it holds everyone in place, allowing a shooter easily to find victims.

An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets, it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others.

Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful. A level barrel is fair to all fish.

Some propose overturning laws that made schools gun-free zones even for teachers who may be licensed to securely carry concealed firearms elsewhere. They argue that barring licensed-carry only ensures a defenseless, target-rich environment.

But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.

DOUG VAN GORDER
Quincy

**vaglocker** · 12-28-09, 09:26

speechless I am.

**Rider79** · 12-28-09, 09:35

Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful. A level barrel is fair to all fish.

And this is why our country is ****ed.

**HeavyDuty** · 12-28-09, 09:35

If that's his attitude he should be removed from his teaching position.

**Yojimbo** · 12-28-09, 09:36

I had to read that several times and I'm still wondering if it was written in a sarcastic manner.

Maybe I'm just having a problem believing someone can be so stupid...

**Alex V** · 12-28-09, 09:44

Originally Posted by Yojimbo

I had to read that several times and I'm still wondering if it was written in a sarcastic manner.

Maybe I'm just having a problem believing someone can be so stupid...

Believe it... Many people are simply... that stupid.

There is little you can do to change it, short of having them be in a situation where their life is saved by the lawful use of a firearm. And even then, they will have compation for the assailant rather than themselves (the victim) because he/she did not know their father, grew up in a violent neigborhood and so on.

It is the freedoms given to use by men who picked up arms and put down their lives which gives these retards the ability to say shit like that and they have no respect for it what so ever.

**CarlosDJackal** · 12-28-09, 10:02

Originally Posted by Yojimbo

I had to read that several times and I'm still wondering if it was written in a sarcastic manner.

Maybe I'm just having a problem believing someone can be so stupid...

A guy from my Gun Club, who happens to be a retired CG Criminal Investigator, once told me that he told his daughters that they would be better off raped and/or assaulted than to have to face the aftermath if they were to shoot an assailant.

Of course, this guy is a Fudd in all respect. He primarily shoots Trap and argued with me that a shotgun can do everything an AR can. When i asked him if he owns any rounds that would penetrate soft body armor - he mumbled something and changed the subject.

**C4IGrant** · 12-28-09, 10:25

Originally Posted by QuietShootr

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ed..._self_defense/

But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.

DOUG VAN GORDER
Quincy

We cannot fix stupid. This sheep must not love his child.

I would kill everyone in the room before allowing someone to hurt my child. Did I commit a "gun chrime?" WHO THE F*CK CARES!!!

Sheep will alway be sheep because to be anything else would mean that they actually put thought into something.

C4

**ST911** · 12-28-09, 12:02

Originally Posted by HeavyDuty

If that's his attitude he should be removed from his teaching position.

Parenting, too.

Originally Posted by CarlosDJackal

A guy from my Gun Club, who happens to be a retired CG Criminal Investigator, once told me that he told his daughters that they would be better off raped and/or assaulted than to have to face the aftermath if they were to shoot an assailant.

Revoke his parenting privileges, too.