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originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
You have no idea what I know
Again, %20 is not "most teachers". Basic math really isn't your strong suite
I have asked you several times to share your links of protests and you have not been able to do that. You ignore and move on to other goalpost moving arguments.
I am still waiting to see these "protests"
One in 5 teachers surveyed about school safety by the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corp. said they feel schools would be safer if teachers were allowed to be armed. The majority, 54%, thought schools would be made less safe if teachers could carry, and another 26% said they didn't think it would make a difference in school safety.
originally posted by: quintessentone
... having armed teachers learn how to shoot straight in a wild western shoot 'em up scenario where the good guy aways wins.
originally posted by: MrGashler
a reply to: quintessentone
legislators more or less ALWAYS have no idea what they're talking about. There's a reason they're legislators and not, say, tactical trainers.
Police trainers are saying it won't be enough, but they're the ones giving the police the inadequate amount of training they receive? And these are the people you're pointing to as your appeal to authority?
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
You keep changing your sources bud, you really have no idea what you are doing do you?
Again with the claims and refusing to provide links to your own claims.
You are a joke, you should really think about getting some help
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
nvm
you are not worth anymore of my time with your back and forth, goalpost moving and endless nonsensical bs
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
Except the missing links to all of these protests you say are going on in Tennessee
Regardless, I am done wasting my time on you and your bs biased narrative
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: YourFaceAgain
Believe me, I am more than well aware of that.
Goalpost mover of the year award goes to them
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
Doesn't take removing the blinders to see what you are
Feel free to leave my thread at anytime buddy, you really have nothing real to say here anyways you only came here to be a troll and follow me around
originally posted by: quintessentone
...only arming teachers without employing other safety measure...
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
Not sure why I have to keep reminding you that you are not a Tennessee legislature, you don't know anything about what they have going on in regards to this.
I am so glad that one school in Alabama decided to spend $50k+ on an experimental thing that may or may not do anything to help.
If that is your last word I guess you will be leaving this thread now, I will hold you to that, good riddance.
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: quintessentone
So you really are a liar? It's okay, we all knew it
There is no "closed mindedness" going on here. We all looked at your experimental "bulletproof wall" idea. That is putting a band aid on a bullet hole, no pun intended. You just refuse to see past the idea that it keeps guns out of the hands of people that are willing to use them and die fighting to save your kids.
It's not a good idea to arm teachers
There's broad consensus that arming teachers is not a good policy. That's according to Matthew Mayer, a professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. He's been studying school violence since before Columbine, and he's part of a group of researchers who have published several position papers about why school shootings happen.
As a former staff operations officer at the CIA and former FBI special agent, I have undergone extensive training and am confident in my ability to run toward a violent situation, rather than away from it. But asking teachers to carry weapons and assuming they will be prepared for such a situation is risky. My training was rife with high-pressure scenarios, to work on a phenomenon known as “fear extinction.” This is where you learn to lower your fear response after multiple exposures to a stimulus. To dampen the pre-conditioned fear response to an active shooter scenario would require working with teachers on a case-by-case basis.
A 2017 Pew Research poll found that 45 percent of Americans surveyed supported arming teachers. To me, it’s an alarmingly high statistic that indicates many people think carrying a gun and facing an active shooter is easy. But consider this: Roughly 75 percent of recruits reportedly drop out of Navy SEALS training because they cannot adopt a “survival mindset” and are not mentally prepared for the emotional and physical stress of training. Essentially, they are unsuccessful at fear extinction.
Those who support arming teachers do so partly because society tends to measure adeptness or proficiency in tangible ways. In weapons training, this would equate to how well you can hit a target and/or how fast you can unload your weapon. I do not doubt that if adeptness truly were measured this way, many teachers could be armed. But that fails to take into account the necessary emotional and psychological mindset that comes with being armed and being thrust into an active shooter situation.
A quick calculation of my hours spent at CIA and FBI training academies works out to 2,350 and 1,904 hours, respectively — or 4,254 hours of combined training in weapons-handling, fear extinction and situational awareness.