If arming teachers is the answer...

[momta]

to gun violence in schools, then I think every innocent black person should be given a gun to keep the police from shooting and killing them.

[Srkdqltr]

1. Not a bad idea. As a Democrat I have wondered if I should have a gun

To protect myself from Republicans?
Maybe not sarcasm?

[momta]

2. Yeah, maybe not...

It's only sarcasm because what I truly believe is that 99.9% of guns should be melted down and turned into electric school busses.

[Srkdqltr]

3. That is the best idea I have ever heard!!!

[ShazzieB]

13. 100% agree!

[Rhiannon12866]

7. And that was discussed on MSNBC last night, none of these guns are destroyed

Even if they are deemed dangerous by misfiring - they're only recycled and passed on to do even more damage.

[Zeitghost]

25. That varies by location/jurisdiction.

[edisdead]

30. Will they have air conditioning?

At the moment I am roasting in the school bus I drive at this very moment.

[hadEnuf]

12. Republicans have tons of guns to "protect" themselves from Democrats.

Why be unarmed target practice for the MAGAs?

[ShazzieB]

16. Some of us are not interested in owning firearms, period.

Some of us even have an active desire not to ever own one.

If you want to arm yourself, go right ahead. I couldn't stop you if I wanted to. It's a personal choice that you are entitled to make. But please don't even imply that this something we all must do, whether we want to or not.

I don't know if you actually meant to imply that, but I honestly wish people wouldn't even joke about it. I find it really disturbing when people do that, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who feels that way,

[hadEnuf]

31. I imply nothing. I don't care if you do not own a gun. That's entirely up to you.

I'm simply pointing out the fact that MAGA nuts are generally armed to the teeth and that they usually prey on unarmed people when they go off.

I do not walk around everywhere carrying a gun and I'd like to see some real gun control as well, but if a Democrat / Progressive decides they should have a gun I do not think they are being hypocritical if they get one. Not in a country that is overrun with guns that many people should not even have access to and a RW propaganda machine that tacitly urges them to use them.

[ShazzieB]

35. Well...

"Why be unarmed target practice for the MAGAs?" does imply something, whether it was meant to or not. Intention and impact can, unfortunately, be quite different things.

Leaving that aside, it does sound as if we are on the same page about a lot of things.

[hadEnuf]

36. "Why be unarmed target practice for the MAGAs?"

That's meant more to be a warning because that's how I think many MAGAs see Dems. Metaphorically and realistically.

Choose your own defense strategy, but just watch your back with these people.

[Tetrachloride]

4. Armed teachers can protect libraries and the cafeteria staff.

My school district as a kid made bread fresh daily.

[momta]

5. I bet you also had "To Kill A Mockingbird" in the library.

Commie liberal!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Turns out that there were those in the Nashville school who were armed

But they didn't prevent stop that shooter.

[Probatim]

10. Can armed librarians shoot Proud Boys who try to intimidate them?

Asking for a friend...

[housecat]

17. lol

[Probatim]

23. Thanks for laughing - it's dark humor to be sure, but a 70 yo grandmother

capping a Proud Boy wearing a bulletproof vest in a library seems like poetic justice to me.

[housecat]

29. Sure does. And age is just a number

[Conjuay]

32. Sure!

Aim for the head.
It won't stop him, but he'll waste a lot of time trying to locate his hat.

[lastlib]

20. as long as they're standing their ground and feeling "threatened".....

[DemocraticPatriot]

33. In Florida, I suppose that would fall under

"stand your ground" self-defense laws....

[allegorical oracle]

28. I worked in a library. You do not want to arm librarians. Don't know about cafeteria folks. nt

[DemocraticPatriot]

34. why not ?

lol

[Traildogbob]

6. You got it perfectly right.

[Kennah]

8. It has happened before

https://californialocal.com/localnews/statewide/ca/article/show/4412-california-gun-control-reagan-black-panthers/

[hadEnuf]

14. And it was immediately crushed with the 1967 Mulford gun control act, signed into law by

then governor Ronald Reagan.

Gun control is fine with the Right-Wing as long as it controls the "right people".

[inthewind21]

15. Indeed

You want gun control, have BLM all arm up and open carry. It will happen so fast your head will spin.

[housecat]

19. As fantastic that sounds, there will be too much innocent blood from trigger-happy cops

[twodogsbarking]

11. Parents' night could turn out badly.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. If you arm the teachers

the shooters will only try to take them out first...........

And if you arm the Blacks, it will give the cops just more phony justification to take them out. Just look at the rate they take out unarmed blacks for doing nothing but driving while black, or walking thru their own neighborhood while black........

A civilian carrying around a pistol is questionable enough, but any private citizen being allowed to pack around an assault weapon is pure insanity........

[momta]

21. Thus the sarcasm emoji n/t

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Sorry momta

missed the emoji................

This whole gun thing, and the school shootings is just totally bizarre to me.............a giant WTF????????

[momta]

24. Oh, no apology necessary. Been there, done that.

And it is definitely a giant WTF!

(On a much lighter note, I have a nephew whose initials are WTF )

[DENVERPOPS]

26. I wonder if I could get

those three letters on a Personalized vehicle License Plate past the censors here in Colorado........

Those Censors have to be out in the ozone somewhere.....I saw a Colorado Personalized License plate on a super Porche the other day:

1PDQMF..................LOLOLOLOL................

[Mr.Bill]

27. I think there should be public performances

of Drag Queens who are armed.

[Silent3]

37. Arming teachers is indeed the answer

But only if the question is, "What would be a fucking insane way to try to desperately avoid facing the need for gun control?"