Posted March 1, 2018 3:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

One of the proposals floating out there right now to try and combat school shootings is to allow teachers to carry their lawfully owned firearms into the classroom. This is typically phrased as “arming teachers,” but that’s not quite what we’re talking about here as that phrase indicates firearms would be issued to teachers or something.

However, in the discussion of this, particularly in Florida, we’re hearing a lot of rhetoric. Some of it makes almost no sense at all, while others make even less sense.

Take, for example, this tidbit that surrounded the debate over allowing teachers to carry in Florida.

The fact that teachers could soon be allowed to carry firearms inside schools wasn’t sitting well with gun-control supporters, either.

It bothers me to think as a father of two young boys to tell them to not be aggressive to your teacher,” said Sen. Oscar Branynon (D-Miami Gardens).

The lawmaker told the Sun Sentinel that he and other black fathers across Florida will now have to include teachers when talking to their children about how to act around armed authority figures.

“Please don’t make it dangerous for children who look like my children to go …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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