When You Give a Teacher a Gun…
Here are just a few of the most troubling excerpts from a very disturbing recent article on arming teachers, presented without comment:
“When she started her career, Pam’s salary was $23,000. (“If I ever see $55,000, I’ll be 105 years old,” she says, laughing.) The district is covering her hotel and ammunition for training, but she paid for her new $500 Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun and for all her gear—magazines, magazine pouches, a holster, safety equipment, and that concealed-carry permit—out of her own pocket.”“Last February, the president of the United States went a step further: Schools should arm “highly trained, gun-adept” teachers, said Trump, and pay them bonuses for their troubles. The question is no longer whether we should arm teachers, coaches, principals, and custodians; it’s how many are out there already, and which ones are getting guns next.”“Gun control is an uninteresting topic for the group, because they are convinced it would be of no practical use. “
‘Drugs are illegal, but look how many people use them anyway,’ one principal reasons. Pam mostly agrees. ‘They’re going to get them if they want them,’ she says, shrugging. But whenever the subject of providing for kids’ mental health comes up, she grimaces a little. Her school still hasn’t hired its own counselor.”“In all, she fires about 700 rounds over 27 hours of instruction, which includes an evening CONTINUE READING:When You Give a Teacher a Gun… | Eclectablog
