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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 03:38 AM Jun 2022

Uh, GOP - About Arming Teachers ...

For the past several years, you have vilified teachers as being overpaid babysitters, pedophile-enabling groomers, radical leftists who encourage their students to embrace communism, homosexuality, gender fluidity, and to spurn religion, patriotism, and American values.

Now you want teachers to be armed.

So just out of curiosity, exactly which teachers among the aforementioned do you think should be protecting our children?

Do you prefer the groomers or the communists? Do you feel that the lazy babysitters would do a better job than the trans-gender pushers? Do you think the religion-haters are more trustworthy than the America-haters?

As you've repeatedly pointed out, teachers are far too incompetent to design their own lesson plans, and far too stupid to carry out their professional duties.

Therefore, it's up to you to pick-and-choose who among this group of inept, anti-American, child-abusing traitors are to be trained as expert marksmen who will take down a school shooter - while the "good guys with guns" wait outside in the parking lot, handcuffing distraught parents who think those "good guys" should actually be doing something to save their children.

And just as an aside, Republicans - if I had spent years promoting the belief that an entire profession was full of incompetent, America-hating, radical leftist, pedophile enablers, the last thing I'd be proposing is putting weapons in their hands.


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Uh, GOP - About Arming Teachers ... (Original Post) NanceGreggs Jun 2022 OP
I am still pissed that a friend of mine 10 years ago said teachers make too much money Tetrachloride Jun 2022 #1
I did the math BigmanPigman Jun 2022 #3
Not to mention, I can't imagine most of my teachers wielding a gun, even if there was training Rhiannon12866 Jun 2022 #2
When you understand that Republickscum just want to watch the world (and everyone in it) burn Grokenstein Jun 2022 #4
You forgot "union thugs." Grumpy Old Guy Jun 2022 #5
Great essay! colorado_ufo Jun 2022 #6
One of your best essays. The contradictions in GQP are so great. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2022 #7
The Hypocrisy is Real Roy Rolling Jun 2022 #8
republicans suffer from "cognitive dissonance", they also seem to suffer from short memory Escurumbele Jun 2022 #9
I am more passed at teachers that voted for Retrumplicans maxrandb Jun 2022 #10
Big Government Gestapo Education from the anti-government radical right bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #11
Let's also have them fix the boilers and make salads in the cafeteria. discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2022 #12
WHEN would they have time to take them out of the locked cases and cabinets??!! flor-de-jasmim Jun 2022 #13
Will these teachers get AR-15s? RainCaster Jun 2022 #14
I am a gun owner as well as melm00se Jun 2022 #15
I had a couple teachers I'd trust with guns NickB79 Jun 2022 #16
Lots of black people are teachers. White boys going to give them free guns? (sarcasm sort of) cbabe Jun 2022 #17
Fighting fire with gasoline. The gun industry's answer to every problem is more people with guns. BrightKnight Jun 2022 #18
I wonder---how long will it be before a student or teacher is shot when teacher's "piece" falls from Atticus Jun 2022 #19

BigmanPigman

(51,591 posts)
3. I did the math
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 04:14 AM
Jun 2022

when I was teaching my 23 1st graders. I would have made MORE babysitting individual students, A LOT more! Most teachers work 50+ hour weeks.

Rhiannon12866

(205,344 posts)
2. Not to mention, I can't imagine most of my teachers wielding a gun, even if there was training
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 04:14 AM
Jun 2022

My second grade teacher was old enough to be my grandmother's mother - and she already liked to crack those who misbehaved with a ruler.

Grokenstein

(5,723 posts)
4. When you understand that Republickscum just want to watch the world (and everyone in it) burn
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 04:23 AM
Jun 2022

you immediately understand why their policies are what they are.

Roy Rolling

(6,917 posts)
8. The Hypocrisy is Real
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 06:03 AM
Jun 2022

It shouldn’t be a surprise anymore. Now it’s time for anti-hypocrite methods.

Those who could be educated already have, after the hearing tonight those who are uninformed will be.

That just leaves the remaining political hypocrites and they’re the enemy. Not opposition—enemy. I am upping my opposition level today. Not physical, psychological.

I sense the time has come to change my “bedside manor”. Patients who refuse to admit they are sick or refuse to take life-saving medicine need to be treated differently than cooperative patients.*

*I am not a doctor

Escurumbele

(3,392 posts)
9. republicans suffer from "cognitive dissonance", they also seem to suffer from short memory
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 06:41 AM
Jun 2022

as well. They will say something today then contradict themselves the next, which is what happens to liars, they usually cannot tell what lie they told the previous day.

maxrandb

(15,330 posts)
10. I am more passed at teachers that voted for Retrumplicans
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 06:48 AM
Jun 2022

Kind of tells you what they think of their coworkers, doesn't it?

bucolic_frolic

(43,161 posts)
11. Big Government Gestapo Education from the anti-government radical right
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 07:01 AM
Jun 2022

The war on families is real. LGBTQ/Abortion Bounties/CRT Censorship/Voter Suppression was just the beginning. Now we have Mr. Rogers Rambo teaches the fourth grade. There is nothing they won't destroy to own the libs!

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,479 posts)
12. Let's also have them fix the boilers and make salads in the cafeteria.
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 07:02 AM
Jun 2022


People have jobs, let them do what they do best. Doesn't seem like a difficult idea to me.

flor-de-jasmim

(2,125 posts)
13. WHEN would they have time to take them out of the locked cases and cabinets??!!
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 10:06 AM
Jun 2022

Or do they imagine teachers would keep them on top of their desks, all day, every day, just in case?

RainCaster

(10,874 posts)
14. Will these teachers get AR-15s?
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 10:19 AM
Jun 2022

Who pays for them?
Who buys the bullets?
What about all the range time to remain proficient?
#GunNutsDidntThinkThisThrough

melm00se

(4,992 posts)
15. I am a gun owner as well as
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 10:44 AM
Jun 2022

a concealed carry permit holder and I would not want to arm teachers.

Not everyone has the temperament to be a gun owner much less a concealed carry permit holder. A school, like any crowded area, is a zero error shooting environment.

- You cannot miss.
- You cannot use a gun or ammo that over-penetrates.
- You must be prepared to live with the consequences of drawing and firing your weapon.

I know very few people who meet these requirements.

NickB79

(19,243 posts)
16. I had a couple teachers I'd trust with guns
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 10:52 AM
Jun 2022

BUT......

They were both Korean War vets in their 50's that went through hell and back fighting over there. Trained by Uncle Sam and tested in battle. That, and in a town of 400 people, everyone knew everyone else, so there was a greater element of trust. Those two men taught my own father when he was my age.

I can't think of a single one of my daughter's teachers that I'd be OK carrying around her.

BrightKnight

(3,567 posts)
18. Fighting fire with gasoline. The gun industry's answer to every problem is more people with guns.
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 05:01 PM
Jun 2022

Give a third grade English teacher a pistol because scores of heavily armed cops won’t go in? I’m not sure that plan is going to work…

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
19. I wonder---how long will it be before a student or teacher is shot when teacher's "piece" falls from
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 06:44 PM
Jun 2022

her or his purse or pocket and fires when it hits the floor?

How long before some bullied kid from a gunless household "somehow" gets his or her hands on the science teacher's pistol and "gets even" with the tormentors?

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