Title : Dotard's Dumbest Idea Yet: Arming Teachers
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Dotard's Dumbest Idea Yet: Arming Teachers
What an NRA whore - president looks like.On watching Trump's recent photo op at the White House - where he's listening to the victims of school shootings,including those who lost friends or relatives at Stoneman Douglas last week it was easy to be teased into thinking this POS would actually do something. That hope was dashed yesterday when he recycled the wacko idea of "trained teachers" being armed at schools, fool's errand properly shot down by most of those at the listening session. This A-hole is actually contemplating finding funds to "train and arm one million teachers."
At the White House press briefing on Thursday afternoon, Raj Shah, deputy press secretary, was asked if it was practical to expect teachers to carry concealed handguns to protect their students from shooters. The half wit imp replied:
“When you have a horrific situation, what you think and do not think is practical can change,” Shah said.
Proving neither he nor anyone else in the Trump White House has the mental capacity to do a full practical thinking exercise on likely outcomes. They just blow this effluent out their asses and believe it's a solution.
Two major teachers’ unions rightly expressed shock and skepticism that any such plan could be feasible or effective.
On Thursday, Trump tweeted: “20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to … immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions. Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this. They know they come into our schools they're gonna be dead."
Dead? THEY'RE going to be dead? "THEY" having possession of a military assault weapon that can unleash 30 rounds in a couple minutes facing off against a likely female teacher (76 % of teachers are female) with only a standard handgun? Are you out of your effing mind? What? Are you taking LSD and coke with your MickeyD burgers at night?
This is a fantasy that in the olden days, growing up in Milwaukee - never far from a tavern, we'd call beer talk. Big talk from some loopy guy too tanked up on fifteen Schlitz beers to even walk a straight line, but able to spout bollocks.
Let's put it more bluntly in case any starry eyed, wannabe gun heroes think this is a grand idea. That arming 20 or 40 percent of teachers at each school means no bad guy in his right mind would want to take any chances in that school. Just like the would be burglar who spots a "Beware of the Dog" sign in a front yard and figures it's best to go try the next place.
For Trump, low IQ ignoramus that he is, it's all very simple: "The teacher's there with the gun - concealed carry of course - then pulls it out and shoots the guy."
But this is fantasy bullshit and ignores the fact that an armed deputy was actually just outside of Bldg. 12 at Stoneman Douglas High while the AR-15 was firing. As teacher Sean Simpson put it: "Armed with only a handgun he'd have been a fool to confront the madman with an AR-15".
He's correct. This explains why the school deputy didn't step toward the firing lines for a a full four minutes. This was according to Sheriff Scott Israel - who also, by the way, doesn't believe it's a capital idea to have armed teachers, e.g.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/375003-florida-sheriff-comes-out-against-arming-teachers-teachers
Excerpt:
“I don't believe teachers should be armed. I believe teachers should teach,” Israel said.
Adding:
“But that's exactly what's wrong with this country. We have people in Washington, D.C., representatives, senators and legislators telling teachers what they should do without asking teachers, 'what do you want to do?"
He also went on to say no 18 year old should be able to purchase such a weapon, and their numbers - the AR-15s and dozens of other assault models- need to be controlled. As he put it, "when you keep doing the same thing over and over and it doesn't work, that's insanity"
I do hope all the "gunnies" that quoted Israel before in a different context also take time to quote him now, because he is spot on correct. It is not a teacher's place to carry a concealed weapon, for potentil use against a far better armed active shooter who in most cases will be using a military assault rifle like an AR-15. Besides, as Columbine teacher Paula Reid put it when interviewed on MSNBC two nights ago: "If a troubled student knows that I'm armed - because I don't wear those clothes that make concealed carry easy - he can literally take my weapon away and use it against others."
Good point, and this could even apply to an alleged "trained teacher."
Now, let's get more into the fine details of why arming 700,000 odd teachers is a dumbo idea, although it might sound plausible and do-able to those who entertain fantasies a la the move vigilante Paul Kersey - in the movie "Death Wish".
Start with the fact that if a trained and armed deputy armed with only a handgun didn't see fit to take on the shooter, why the hell would a teacher? Especially if an assault rifle armed shooter already has the advantage in being able to empty a whole magazine before you're likely to get the safety off your handgun. If he couldn't take on the shooter what makes you believe a teacher - even trained could?
That deputy likely didn't respond because he heard the rapid shots fired and the screams as he visualized the carnage It paralyzed him and I promise it would be no different for an educator forced to suddenly take on the fantasy role of "Rambo" with an inadequate weapon.
Could a well trained teacher armed with only a handgun bring down the bad guy with an AR-15. Uh, yeah, IF.....he has the time to stand there and aim his-her handgun at the shooter.....AND....
the shooter would have to stand there and freeze and allow the teacher to do it, No kidding! In addition, the shooter - even if standing still as a statue - would have to additionally cooperate by deciding not to fire his assault weapon at the teacher with the handgun.
Pause now, collect your breath, and seriously tell me how you rate the probabilities for any of these to materialize. Let's also add for completness, that even if all these conditions are met, the teacher would have to have a clear firing line - no students in the intervening space. Ideally, this would have to take place outside in a hallway, not inside a classroom where any number of students could become collateral damage
See, when you pull apart the scenario, it doesn't appear so easy or straightforward. But see, simple minds, e.g. simpletons like Dotard Donnie Trump, always imagine an ideal scenario for their fantasy to unfold. Say like placing their handgun hero in hallways in a school, to take down a suicidal shooter .
Even given these hare- brained fantasies here'e another fact the Trumptard purveyors of this idiocy don't know: most bullets fired by even trained police officers miss their targets. The most frequent reason is the target isn't cooperating with being shot, he's on the move and maybe firing his own weapon.
One more thing, there is NO - I repeat NO form of training that replicates the human experience of going up against a real assault weapon that has already blown off the faces, arms, and legs of kids who were alive just minutes ago. There is no freaking training that duplicates the emotional, psychological experience that a teacher would encounter in an actual bloodbath scenario that is rapidly unfolding and in which the shooter has every advantage with his assault rifle. And what pray tell does the teacher do - now confronted with the shooter - who's already killed his students but is himself only armed with a handgun?
I'll give you one clue: it doesn't end well for the teacher Indeed, the deputy armed with only a handgun at Stoneman Douglas may have processed the same, which is why he didn't engage the shooter, Niikolas Cruz. And make no mistake, no teacher this side of reality is going to be more accurate than a trained deputy or policeman will.
Idiot Trump meanwhile, with his demented fantasies, would put teachers in the position of using a handgun under unimaginable pressure and possibly killing one or more of their own students in the process by mistake. Oh, and do you believe if there are accidental killings of a teacher's students, the Trumptard government will rush to pay off liabilities? If so you are eating way more MJ candy than the users here in Colorado.
This is what you find when the bullshit is stripped away from these imbecilic armed teacher fantasies. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union said in a statement: “Anyone who wants guns in schools has no understanding of what goes on inside them – or worse, doesn’t care.”
To top off yesterday's bravura performance of idiocy and ideology there was NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre squawking at CPAC about "losing liberty" and accusing the activist students and teachers, parents of exploiting the tragedy. This foul piece of ambulatory excrement barked:
"What they want are more restrictions on the law abiding. Think about that. Their solution is to make all of you less free."
Of course, he's a total moron as well as ideologue. He is also totally ignorant of 2nd amendment limits, which I cited before in the case of District of Columbia vs. Heller, e.g.
http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2018/02/sorry-you-have-no-constitutional-right.html
This case and Scalia's ruling makes it abundantly clear there is no unregulated, 2nd amendment right to own any assault type weapon. No one's "freedom" depends on it, and as Stoneman teacher Sean Simpson put it: "That's absolutely stupid to believe you and some neighbors armed with AR-15s could even handle a battle ready company with machine gun choppers, tanks, and RPGs firing!"
But Dotard calls the NRA lobby "patriots" when the only thing patriotic they want to do is make as much money as possible for the corporate weapons industry -which is why both the NRA and Dotard love the idea of arming teachers. It adds millions more gun sales to the profit margins..
See also:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/22/wayne-la-pierre-nra-cpac-hate-bingo
And:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-c-koehler/77849/the-cheapening-of-human-life
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