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LanternWaste

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9. This is an accurate illustration of why I think arming teaching staff is the most idiotic idea avail

Reply to PA Democrat (Original post)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 02:43 PM

Feb 2018

This is an accurate illustration of why I think arming teaching staff is the most idiotic idea available.

We spend $100 billion a year combating terrorism, but for every one American killed by an act of terror in the United States or abroad in 2014, more than 1,049 died because of guns. I think that alone is a clear signal that we're held hostage by the gun industry through our own idiocy and inaction.

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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