Shooting at high school in Parkland, Fla.

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I'm glad the proposal about arming teachers in schools is voluntary, because it won't force anyone who doesn't want to do it, from having to do it. However I can still see some further problems along the line...

1) Shooters going to schools will thus target teachers first, to both eliminate the counter threat, and to obtain more weapons/ammo.

2) While the teachers should know most of the other teachers in the school, the cops are not, and thus if they see someone with a gun, they may well shoot first, ask questions later (and there are enough news reports of that!).

3) Assume you are the actual shooter, and the police point a gun at you, what's to stop you from claiming you are a teacher and looking for the shooter, allow the police to claim your weapon and then escorted out the school? And then... well, to freedom... until the police realise down the line that was the shooter and then begins the person hunt (I use person as a non gender reference here, but it's almost always "man").

4) Given the way police has been in the last few years, are you really going to want to be a black teacher holding a firearm?!

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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"?

Not much different from two 18 old kids from Alabama going to Mississippi and not being allowed to get married (the minimum age there is 21!).

Or really, being allowed to swear in public, but then getting it censored if you post the same content on a privately owned forum or chat board... their house, their rules.