Shooting at high school in Parkland, Fla.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

Dick's Sporting Goods, meanwhile, is stopping the sale of "assault style" weapons and will no longer sell guns to anyone under the age of 21.

I'm wondering how that last part is supposed to work. If you're 20 years old and perfectly legal to own guns, you walk into Dick's... they tell you "No, sir, I can't sell you any guns"? How is that not discrimination? How is it much different from saying, "We refuse to sell guns to African Americans" or "We refuse to sell guns to men with mullets"?

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

And just sitting there going, "You can't arm teachers! That's a stupid plan!!!"... really? It's kind of like, arguing with someone who says, "I disagree with you," (it could be on anything) without offering their own opinion to counter. I mean, what's your better plan to protect students during actual shootings, if you're going to sh** on my plan?

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

And now...my list of reasons why arming teachers is a bad idea

• Not every school can afford to arm their teachers
• Not every teacher can afford to even manage upkeep guns, let alone by them
• Not every teacher is physically or mentally equipped to be trusted with gun
• Adequate training takes a very long time
• EVERYTHING that happens to Jordan Klepper here. Training is strenuous, it doesn't guarantee being prepared for an active shooter, the chances of shooting a student on instinct, being mistaken for the shooter by the authorities and getting shot at by them...
• Regardless of the rules, there are teachers who will more than likely threaten their "out of control" students with their gun or even actually use them.
• Schools shouldn't have to be made into potentially warzones so students can safely learn...and such an environment would be likely to make them anxious. Because it's not like our teenagers have enough anxiety as it is from all their schoolwork.

OK, you don't like that plan. What's your alternative plan to stopping in-progress school shootings?