What could possibly go wrong having armed teachers in the school............

[Old Vet]

Now there discussing armed teachers....WTF

[FM123]

1. And I just heard a man (parent?) say maybe arm the custodians???

[DURHAM D]

2. I know that at least two of the custodians

at the local high school have criminal records. This is insane.

Note: I live in a town with just one high school.

[Generic Brad]

4. Make the custodians and lunch room people undercover cops!!

These solutions are beyond absurd.

[safeinOhio]

16. I thought they were when I was in school

[backtoblue]

21. Me too

[lostnfound]

3. Great way to chase liberals out of the schools and the rich into private ones. Nt

[RussBLib]

5. sounds like Trump is already convinced to do it

this guy

[DURHAM D]

6. I turned it off.

Who was that moron who took over the meeting and would not shut up?

[octoberlib]

7. Trump just asked if everybody liked his idea of arming teachers and almost all of them raised their

hands. A few of them didn't. Definitely vetted .

[RussBLib]

8. perhaps an equal number rose their hands saying they were opposed to that idea

Trump at least said both sides are understandable. I'll give him credit for one decent statement.

[Old Vet]

11. It would be just insane to even think arming teachers is a good idea......

[octoberlib]

13. No it wasn't an equal number. Not by a long shot.

[anneboleyn]

20. You are right. The cameras actually tried to hide the huge discrepancy by swinging away. Trumps

expression and remark that “oh...okay...I see...” — he was pissed off because the audience clearly disagreed with him.

[DURHAM D]

9. Ask the teachers.

I already have. Answer NO, NO, NO.

[katmondoo]

12. I turned the TV off when that plant started his speech

What is next armed guards on every corner, police with AK15's everywhere, a total police state, body searches for everyone. I knew in the end this was going to be a farce and so it is.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. "There are good people on both sides"

[Girard442]

10. There are about 3.2 million public school teachers in the U.S.

If you make a scientific-wild-assed-guess that about 5%* of those teachers already carry into the classroom, that means you'd be arming the remaining 95% (about 3 million in this example) with sufficient firepower to repel an armed invader and hope that those 95% are never emotionally unbalanced, never make bad decisions, never have anger management issues, never have accidents, and are never, never, ever so careless as to let their weapons fall into the hands of their students -- even though they're tasked with being ready to respond at all times.

*Plug in your own numbers if you want.

[jberryhill]

18. People don't think systematically

....and, in general, don't appreciate scale.

But, yeah, this idea is simply asking for trouble. Likewise the idea that there is a ready and capable workforce to be "armed guards" of some kind put into the schools, which is certain to introduce its own set of issues with qualifications and behavior.

[lunamagica]

15. That guy was obviously a plant. Now we know what "the solution" wiill be

[safeinOhio]

17. A concealed handgun

against a military style rife....fat chance, might even be suicide. Then when the swat team gets there and they see a teacher running around with a gun in his or her hand, more suicide. Then how many times will an unarmed student get shot to the screams of "I feared for my life".

Give it a try, but don't say I didn't tell you.

[anneboleyn]

19. Teachers should earn at least double the current salary if they are expected to act as security

as well as the incredibly demanding task of being a teacher. This shit is so insane.

[kentuck]

22. It's good that teachers don't have a stressful job...

Otherwise, no telling what might happen?

[Initech]

23. They don't care. At all.