Thursday, February 22, 2018

Trump Promotes Arming Teachers

The president rarely if ever thinks things through. Larry O'Donnell had a segment on devoted to the realities of arming teachers with a gun. The first shot he said, with statistical evidence, often misses giving the shooter time to kill others and most probably the teacher him or herself. The teacher could easily shoot the wrong person missing the shooter but wounding or killing someone else including one of his own students.

Moreover, arming and training expertly teachers would be one of Herculean costs. Trump just cut money to education. In a day when some teachers are forced to purchase their own items for their class I suggest no one, least of all this Trump education slashing administration, would pony up that cost. Maybe Trump would pay out of his own pocket like, for example, the hush money he paid for the sexual dalliances with porn stars or Playboy bunnies. Or, perhaps, he would simply allow teachers to carry guns sans the training.  What could possibly go wrong?

I suspect he will ask for nothing and I aver nothing will get done at all including stricter background checks, prohibition of bump stocks much less the eradication of the sale of AR 15 military style assault rifles which no one needs in civilian life. This president needed crib notes to talk to high school students. Why should we ever suspect he reads up on the bills he, off the top of his thinning hair head, wants. Arming teachers should be verboten. This is not Nazi Germany or so I thought.  The only answer to the correct policy is to crush Republicans in 2018 and in 2020 to get the most prescient and humane policies we want.  I hope we are on our way to doing that!  


RESIST!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/us/politics/trump-guns-school-shootings.html?emc=edit_na_20180222&nl=breaking-news&nlid=75028030&ref=cta

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