If Trump gets his way and requires teachers to be armed.....

[BoneyardDem]

what happens to those teachers that are (lets say) on depression meds? Or those that have been in a previous shooting and have PTSD? For their own safety, what happens if they are forced to carry a gun around all day long? What about devout pacifists? What about true Christians that believe in turning the other cheek to killing another person? Do they get to keep their jobs? Will they be branded as not good enough or not as good as their co -workers who are packing?....we already know they won't get paid as much under Trumps plan.

What a horrid, impractical idea.

then there's this:
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372
Public school systems will employ about 3.2 million full-time-equivalent (FTE) teachers in fall 2017,

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/
There are more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving in the United States,

Pressing this issue, I think the NRA is looking for a significant increase in sales...another bang up money maker for them and the manufacturers they represent! Not to mention the millions of kids that will be future purchasers who would be conditioned into thinking that safety would only come with possession of a firearm.

[marybourg]

1. Even he, the dumbass in chief, didn't advocate

requiring teachers to be armed,

[BoneyardDem]

3. isn't pay disparity a type of coersion to you?

[marybourg]

9. No. I think the idea is asinine, but if someone

wants to take on extra responsibilities while doing a job, they should, and generally do, get paid more. That neither amounts to "requiring", nor coersion. And I'm confident you know that.

[hlthe2b]

2. the entire idea is insane, but he has laid it out as voluntary with bonus as incentive... n/t

[LiberalFighter]

4. Legally he can't require it.

[FSogol]

5. Even Trumpy doesn't care about the shit ideas that come out of his mouth.

He'll be proposing some new idiotic idea by Monday. I refuse to take anything he says or proposes seriously.

Fuck Trump.

[LuckyLib]

6. Arming teachers will never happen. Of course with

Our current gub-mint, nothing would surprise me. Should it be required, having been a teacher I can assure you the walk-outs and the backlash would be formidable. Teachers leaving the profession en masse. But maybe that’s what Republicans want!

[sheshe2]

7. What could possibly go wrong? nt

[Thomas Hurt]

8. He can't require it and counting on almost no one carrying so he can point to a "win"

and say it was all the liberals fault it did not work.

[Sophia4]

10. Thank you. Such good points.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. The teachers will quit in protest. All students will be home-schooled. Public schools will shut down

The GOP will hail that as a victory.