Teachers packing heat.

Whatever makes you feel good is the way to go.

 

I'm well trained and a better shot than most, and I carry a weapon suitable for a face shot at any conventional distance. Even so, I'd rather take the chance than try to live with doing nothing while children are slaughtered right in front of me.

 

You must do what you feel is right; life is full of risks and you have assess what you stand to gain by what you stand to lose, just remember others may not feel comfortable doing what you do.

 

I understand that they may not choose to do so; I really don't understand why they try to prevent me from doing so.

 

With the millions of CCW people around, I have yet to hear of a CCW person accidentally shooting an innocent during an act of self-defense. It just isn't happening in real life.

 

Well, I agree that any person has to know their own limitations, and be willing to evaluate any situation through the prism of what they think is right. If they're willing to do that for themselves, I have nothing to say against them. When they demand I be stripped of my right to make a different choice is when I have a problem.

 

OH well, no matter the losing argument more teachers are being allowed to arm, this is because some things are self evident. The other side which the BMers can't accept...students are not being shot in the face by those protecting them at any discernable level. It's all good.

 

for what purpose? As was said by yourself, everyone has to die at some point in time. What would the point be in either taking cover, or trying to escape?

 

If Australians moved to the US and now have firearms, it doesn't seem to be a cultural thing after all.

Your government is literally telling you to do whatever criminals want. Doesn't sound like a culture I'd want to be in.

 

I wouldn't want to get blood all over the place and make a mess for the janitor to clean up.

 

yeah but I don't tell you or even hint what you should own. Lots of people who are afraid to own guns don't want others to own them either

 

tagged the bodies I suppose

 

Please point out to me in this thread where I've hinted at what you should own.

 

Do you know if they went into the building to search for victims or the gunmen?

 

your posts, as I have read them over the last few years, appear to be a passive-aggressive attack on gun owners and gun ownership. unlike a couple obvious gun haters who call for gun bans or more anti gun idiocy on the books, your approach is more of

1) "I am a sensible person"

2) I don't feel a need to own a gun

implying that those who do are not sensible.

I see this a lot from people whose main issue isn't guns or gun ownership but rather they dislike the politics of pro gun posters

 

That's your interpretation; because I own no guns doesn't mean that you are not being sensible; you have your comfort level just as I have mine.

 

Its pretty easy to understand my position on these issues

1) I support honest citizens being able to freely own any type of firearm

2) I cannot find any power delegated to the federal government in the constitution or any of the amendments that give the federal government any power to regulate what firearms citizens acting in their private capacities can own

3) commerce among the states did NOT empower congress to rape the tenth amendment and ignore the second amendment

4) no state should be able to ban any type of firearm or prevent honest citizens from freely carrying firearms in most public areas


so just what exactly is issue position on gun ownership in the USA?

 

Its cultural, they have moved to america and tried to assimilate, make american friends, hang out with their friends, do what their friends do.

IMO its what you should try and do when you move countries.

 

Long after the incidents had stopped because the responsible parties had already killed themselves by that point in time.

 

That statement has not been made here.

 

Yes, en masse, heavily armed and armored, and too late.

 

My position currently is this: I own no weapons so if the government decides to prohibit ownership of guns I could care less since it has no impact on me; on the other hand if nothing changes, I could care less since it has no impact on me as well.

 

So what's your point in being here in the first place?

 

To stir the pot ?

 

See, I look at this very differently. You are taking a position that is, at its core, doomed to failure. It is, forgive me for saying so, a pretty despicable philosophy. Basically, you don't care if other people have their rights taken away from them, so you're just going to accept any abuse, no matter how amoral or unethical, since you "could care less". What right being arbitrarily stripped from other citizens would inspire you to give a damn? How authoritarian does the government have to get before you will deign to care?