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Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Many will quit which ultimately is what righty wants, dumb people, closed schools, etc.
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 06:24 PM
Feb 2018

In one way guns arent the problem, republicans are.


Not really, guns ARE the problem but you get my point.

mikeysnot

(4,757 posts)
2. A professer friend
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 06:25 PM
Feb 2018

told me a story about another friend professor of his that "the day the kids are armed in class is the day I no longer teach"

I would like to add, the day teachers are armed is the day my kid gets in an online home school program..

mnhtnbb

(31,392 posts)
3. Republicans are out to destroy public education and putting firearms in the classroom
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 06:31 PM
Feb 2018

is a great way to accelerate their goal. Gets teachers and students out.

The NRA needs to be destroyed. The Republican Party needs to be destroyed.

We are running out of time.

mmkay31

(7 posts)
7. Not to worry...
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 07:00 PM
Feb 2018

As long as the NRA can get it's way in any such instance the 14 year old would be armed too. Nothing stops a teacher with a gun better than a student with a gun? I think that's one of their bumper stickers.

It just gets stupider by the minute.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
9. They put a bullseye on the teachers when they allow them to be armed.
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 07:13 PM
Feb 2018

The first person you shoot is the one you think may have a gun.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
10. They're hoping to completely destroy public education and make gun
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 07:36 PM
Feb 2018

manufacturers rich. Two birds with one stone.

Initech

(100,080 posts)
16. We're seriously watching the plot of a James Bond movie unfold.
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 08:29 PM
Feb 2018

Wayne La Pierre is a Bond villain, and Alex Jones is his sidekick.

Thrill

(19,178 posts)
17. Or a teacher gets so furious with a student, that he shoots the kid
Thu Feb 22, 2018, 08:30 PM
Feb 2018

Or how long before a teacher kills a high school student, because she feels threatened by him.

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