Anti-Gun Group Makes Dumbest Comment About Armed Teachers Yet

By Tom Knighton

I get that not everyone is comfortable with the idea of armed teachers. I mean, I had a teacher who had a hair temper and, years later, a murder trial of his very own. I’ve often wondered how many of us would have survived if he’d had a firearm on hand. After all, teenagers can be real punks and we weren’t much different, unfortunately.

However, being uncomfortable with armed teachers doesn’t excuse you from being stupid.

The anti-gun group known as Newtown Action decided to try and apply some pressure on Ohio Governor John Kasich. In the process, they made perhaps the dumbest comment regarding armed teachers humanly possible.

.@JohnKasich Arming your teachers in schools will not stop mass shootings in malls, movie theaters, concert venues, churches, etc. https://t.co/RZclqgcVHj via @nbcnews

— Newtown Action (@NewtownAction) June 20, 2018

Well, no. But that would be why, following Sutherland Springs, more states started permitting parishioners to be armed, for example. It’s why we tend to push for other venues to lose their gun free zone status after mass shootings.

Each location of these shootings offers up its own set of challenges. Each needs to be looked at accordingly and, as a …Read the Rest

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