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Martin Eden

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8. Even sober, teachers can experience a lot of stress.

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 02:40 PM

Feb 2018

What happens when that stress is instantly transformed into fear and action due to the ever-present threat of having to make a snap decision to pull and fire that gun ... but it turns out to be a false alarm because that troubled student who ran into the room brandished a cell phone and not the handgun the teacher perceived in a moment of panic?

Veteran trained police officers make those kinds of mistakes. Expecting a classroom teacher to be an armed guard ready to use deadly force at a moment's notice is insane.

Is that the society we have become or aspire to be?

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Elementary kids find loaded gun teacher left in school bathroom [View all] PA Democrat Feb 2018 OP

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? Wounded Bear Feb 2018 #1

We need MOAR GUNS!!!!1!! Initech Feb 2018 #2

"loaded gun teacher" Martin Eden Feb 2018 #3

"even if they remain sober" Iggo Feb 2018 #7

Even sober, teachers can experience a lot of stress. Martin Eden Feb 2018 #8

The ridiculous lengths people are going to protect the war guns is...well, ridiculous. Iggo Feb 2018 #10

Please tell me she was prosecuted and imprisoned. nt. Mariana Feb 2018 #4

My husband found a loaded gun left in a restroom in a park full of families. pnwmom Feb 2018 #5

Arming teachers does not make them trained soldiers. It makes them teachers with guns. (n/t) Iggo Feb 2018 #6

This is an accurate illustration of why I think arming teaching staff is the most idiotic idea avail LanternWaste Feb 2018 #9