RocksInMyHead
God is innocent; Noah built on a floodplain!
- May 12, 2011
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In a vacuum, sure. If I had a black-and-white choice between "school shooters kill people" and "school shooters get killed before they can kill anyone," then I'd obviously take the second option. But nothing is that cut-and-dried. When proposing a solution to a problem, it's important to consider both the negative and positive impacts of your solution and weigh them against the impacts of the problem you're trying to solve. You've clearly put a lot of thought into the positives, but you have to balance those against the negatives. If your solution saves 100 people from school shooters but kills 150 via accidents, that's a net negative.Well, we're seeing the negative effects of everyone in schools being defenseless against someone on a shooting rampage. I think we've seen enough of the negatives from that, and I think we can agree that the negatives of it are unacceptable.
The argument to arm teachers is a knee-jerk emotional response to a terrible situation - much like the calls from some on the left to ban guns entirely. Both ideas feel great to their respective target audiences, but neither takes any consideration for the potential downsides.
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