Teachers packing heat: More educators taking gun training classes

[Flightmare]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/28/te ... asses.html

FASTER operates under the belief that along with other preventative measures, teachers packing guns can help provide the first line of defense should a shooter come on campus and open fire.

[The Annoyed Man]

Two interesting quotes:

Here's the rational side of the argument:

“The safety of our kids should not be a controversial issue. This is not about guns,” Jim Irvine, with FASTER and the Buckeye Firearms Foundation, said to Fox News at the time. “For nearly 60 years, not one student has died from a fire. That is due to a redundant, overlapping approach to safety.”

“We should be copying that same method for incidents of violence in our schools," Irvine added. "You need something that is effective. Show us another method and we would invest in it.”

Here's the irrational side of the argument:

“FASTER was created and is promoted by the Ohio state gun lobby,” Ken Toltz, founder and co-chair of Safe Campus Colorado, said to KUSA. “Bringing it to Weld County is an attempt to lay the groundwork for another legislative push in the 2018 session to loosen Colorado’s gun laws.”

......said the side that has been systematically dismantling Colorado gun rights for several years now. Criticize, but offer no alternative solution. Gee, I wonder who's playing politics here, and who isn't.

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Two interesting quotes:

Here's the rational side of the argument:

“The safety of our kids should not be a controversial issue. This is not about guns,” Jim Irvine, with FASTER and the Buckeye Firearms Foundation, said to Fox News at the time. “For nearly 60 years, not one student has died from a fire. That is due to a redundant, overlapping approach to safety.”

“We should be copying that same method for incidents of violence in our schools," Irvine added. "You need something that is effective. Show us another method and we would invest in it.”

Here's the irrational side of the argument:

“FASTER was created and is promoted by the Ohio state gun lobby,” Ken Toltz, founder and co-chair of Safe Campus Colorado, said to KUSA. “Bringing it to Weld County is an attempt to lay the groundwork for another legislative push in the 2018 session to loosen Colorado’s gun laws.”

......said the side that has been systematically dismantling Colorado gun rights for several years now. Criticize, but offer no alternative solution. Gee, I wonder who's playing politics here, and who isn't.

They always offer the alternative solution- all guns must be removed from the hands of private citizens. Disarm everyone and there will be no more violence. Can't you see how well that's working in Europe?