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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:40 AM Dec 2012

Executive Director of Gun Owners of America Says Armed Teachers Would Have Stopped Newtown Shooting

Source: Gawker

Well, you knew this one was coming. Do you think that the root of today's massacre in Newtown, Conn. is that there are too many guns available too easily in a country that worships gun ownership and glorifies gun violence? Well, there's a buuuuuuuuuunch of people who think that the root of today's massacre is that not enough guns are available easily enough to a country that doesn't value "bearing arms" as much as it should. One of them is Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, who tossed out this old bullshit today:

"Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands. Federal and state laws combined to insure that no teacher, no administrator, no adult had a gun at the Newtown school where the children were murdered. This tragedy underscores the urgency of getting rid of gun bans in school zones. The only thing accomplished by gun free zones is to insure that mass murderers can slay more before they are finally confronted by someone with a gun."

Of course, you would think that pro-gun activists would choose not to stand behind this argument after a massacre in which guns owned by a teacher were used to murder 20 children, yet here we are. And so many people agree with Pratt's theory that it will be respectfully debated in the coming weeks in the mainstream media and in Washington, anyway.

On a related note, Pratt's side has the momentum behind it. Michigan passed a law yesterday allowing concealed carry in schools and child-care centers. One day we will all be vigilantes — or be told that our deaths were our own fault.


Read more: http://gawker.com/5968680/executive-director-of-gun-owners-of-america-says-armed-teachers-would-have-stopped-newtown-shooting



Amazing. This nut is essentially calling all the folks calling for gun control murders of little children: "Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands."
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Executive Director of Gun Owners of America Says Armed Teachers Would Have Stopped Newtown Shooting (Original Post) TomCADem Dec 2012 OP
This reminds me of the time... MarianJack Dec 2012 #1
Yes.This guys is NUTS! Teachers... YvonneCa Dec 2012 #66
Oh, great! A "free fire zone" in schools. What could go wrong with that? SharonAnn Dec 2012 #69
Pearl, MS Recursion Dec 2012 #2
STFU Larry Pratt Just STFU! sheshe2 Dec 2012 #3
Same Guy - "Gun Owners of America Claims Obamacare will 'Take Away Your Guns'" TomCADem Dec 2012 #7
And they call themselves Christians...hard to believe. sheshe2 Dec 2012 #13
These Christians are controled by money not the Bible. oldbanjo Dec 2012 #31
Check your money Plucketeer Dec 2012 #54
So now being a teacher requires Politicalboi Dec 2012 #4
and shootouts in schools are good how? And elehhhhna Dec 2012 #18
"these morons don't think anything through," and... Amonester Dec 2012 #26
They "think" the pandering to the lowest common denominatior for money thru, rather well. xtraxritical Dec 2012 #59
Or maybe we should stop enabling mass murderers? Scootaloo Dec 2012 #5
As a former teacher, southerncrone Dec 2012 #6
I agree with you all teachers aren't stable oldbanjo Dec 2012 #32
Too many think that one way fits all. LiberalFighter Dec 2012 #73
That's blatant propaganda.. defacto7 Dec 2012 #8
I wouldn't be that surprised if they wanted to arm the kids too. doc03 Dec 2012 #9
That could be sorta interesting. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #68
...pure bullshit. SoapBox Dec 2012 #10
Think the parents of the children PatrynXX Dec 2012 #11
Well, the shooter had fucking BODY ARMOR... alp227 Dec 2012 #12
This is a detail I had not heard yet. Ilsa Dec 2012 #39
COWARDS Skittles Dec 2012 #14
Typical Con response....... Grassy Knoll Dec 2012 #15
AND the typical projection (re: "blood on their hands" accusation). Amonester Dec 2012 #27
I fucking knew it would happen! blackspade Dec 2012 #16
Guns do not belong in elementary schools period. bluestateguy Dec 2012 #17
Because teachers are unlikely to be ambushed and overpowered by a gang of students aquart Dec 2012 #19
The guy was wearing a bullet proof vest for gods sake! Kablooie Dec 2012 #20
I've never understood why Leplant and Pratt aren't dead. Zoeisright Dec 2012 #21
Scumbag GOP Zadoc Dec 2012 #22
Yup, this is the guy Alex Jones shills for, Libertarian and Freedumb fighters. Shoot those drones! freshwest Dec 2012 #23
"More Guns Less Crime" author already on the air Gabby Hayes Dec 2012 #28
Thanks for the tip, but I'd probably scream the 'damn you all the hell' speech... freshwest Dec 2012 #67
Those BASTARDS could not even wait ONE DAY? 99th_Monkey Dec 2012 #24
Fuck arming the teachers. I say arm the children!! I would have had an infinitely less traumatic Douglas Carpenter Dec 2012 #25
Post removed Post removed Dec 2012 #41
Whom ever set that picture up should be in jail. It's not funny - delete it a-hat. xtraxritical Dec 2012 #60
The best defense is a good offense. That's what the gun nuts are doing. Zookeeper Dec 2012 #29
Is Arming Ever More People Really The Answer? cantbeserious Dec 2012 #30
The biggest problem is no one is at home teaching their kids, oldbanjo Dec 2012 #34
make lemonade out of lemons bora13 Dec 2012 #33
These were the same secondvariety Dec 2012 #35
FUCK THAT! This killing likely happened BECAUSE a teacher was armed! The killer's mother! cascadiance Dec 2012 #36
I am really puzzled by why his mother having such deadly weapons. olegramps Dec 2012 #46
She was a gun collecter. Her hobby. kwassa Dec 2012 #57
...and gun collecting is harmless, as we all know.... michigandem58 Dec 2012 #65
And I'm still wondering what the owner of the gun that the killer in Oregon this week feels about... cascadiance Dec 2012 #71
sounds more like a prepper fascisthunter Dec 2012 #89
The murderer's mother had guns and he killed her with them. Riley18 Dec 2012 #37
I don't want to shoot and kill people. Ilsa Dec 2012 #38
If the school had poison gas sprayers, it would have stopped it too Doug.Goodall Dec 2012 #40
This rightwing John2 Dec 2012 #42
His mother was a teacher with guns Chalco Dec 2012 #43
And we can stop war by giving everyone tanks. nt valerief Dec 2012 #44
Well, that was fast . . . hatrack Dec 2012 #45
Even better: Turbineguy Dec 2012 #47
It's as if these LiveNudePolitics Dec 2012 #48
Yeah, By All Means, Let's Blame The Victims. Paladin Dec 2012 #49
Thank you for posting that. llmart Dec 2012 #64
WE NEED TO MARCH IN THE STREETS TO CHANGE THE LAWS B-ONE Lancer Dec 2012 #50
A question I have always had about this argument... bamacrat Dec 2012 #51
NRA, and gun lovers everywhere appreciate the dumbass' comments. Hoyt Dec 2012 #52
"Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands??" Faygo Kid Dec 2012 #53
There are assholes and navarth Dec 2012 #55
These idiots are SOOOO predictable. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #56
in this scenerio, would a teacher lose her/his job if they didn't score high on the shooting test? olddad56 Dec 2012 #58
Yeah, Larry, nothing like some crossfire to liven things up. DollarBillHines Dec 2012 #61
Everyone complains about throwing money at problems nineteen50 Dec 2012 #62
You mean asshat director of idiots of America. Jakes Progress Dec 2012 #63
Teachers? No way. An armed guard at every school is on the horizon. toby jo Dec 2012 #70
Letting the streets run red with blood is the outcome of this talking point. jzodda Dec 2012 #72
projection is a classic political tool booley Dec 2012 #74
This argument doesn't make any sense whatsoever Blasphemer Dec 2012 #75
I would think they mean carrying a gun on their exboyfil Dec 2012 #77
I never even considered that as that's even nuttier to me Blasphemer Dec 2012 #81
Yeah, right. RoccoR5955 Dec 2012 #76
Where was the security in that school ? YOHABLO Dec 2012 #78
A police officer in every school exboyfil Dec 2012 #79
Agree totally, but add this... Bigmack Dec 2012 #85
Or he could hit a cop in the head before going to the school exboyfil Dec 2012 #86
Agreeing with you... a story... Bigmack Dec 2012 #88
Larry Pratt is a total, complete idiot AndyA Dec 2012 #80
This nut-case belongs in the same asylum as the God Hates Fags & Fox 'News' assholes LaPera Dec 2012 #82
Sick fuck. n/t tabasco Dec 2012 #83
sick, SICK culture Skittles Dec 2012 #84
Or they might have made it worse, you fucking moron. 6000eliot Dec 2012 #87

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
1. This reminds me of the time...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:46 AM
Dec 2012

...when Archie Bunker advocated stopping plane hijacks by "passin' out the pistols" and arming the passengers on airplanes.

Of course, clueless right wingers is hardly a new thing.

PEACE!

sheshe2

(83,793 posts)
3. STFU Larry Pratt Just STFU!
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:49 AM
Dec 2012
Of course, you would think that pro-gun activists would choose not to stand behind this argument after a massacre in which guns owned by a teacher were used to murder 20 children, yet here we are.

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
7. Same Guy - "Gun Owners of America Claims Obamacare will 'Take Away Your Guns'"
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:55 AM
Dec 2012

The right wing has also been pedaling the idea that Obamacare is a means of gun control.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/gun-owners-america-claims-obamacare-will-take-away-your-guns

Larry Pratt, head of the Religious Right group 'Gun Owners of America,' recently appeared on VCY America’s Crosstalk radio show where he claimed that Obamacare would be used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to take away guns from law-abiding Americans, reports RightWingWatch.org.

Pratt said: &quot Obamacare) says that all of our medical records are available to be pawed through by bureaucrats somewhere in Washington, looking for a reason to disenfranchise gun owners, to say: ‘Oh you have a medical diagnosis that means you might be a danger to yourself or others so we’re going to come and knock on the door for the BATF to take away your guns.’"

There is a law that screens out people, such as the mentally ill, through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to prevent them from purchasing guns. However, this law was signed by President Bush.

sheshe2

(83,793 posts)
13. And they call themselves Christians...hard to believe.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:18 AM
Dec 2012

Religious Right definition


A coalition of right-wing Protestant fundamentalist ( see fundamentalism) leaders who have become increasingly active in politics since the Supreme Court's 1972 decision in Roe versus Wade. Among its leaders are Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. The Religious Right sponsors a network of Christian bookstores, radio stations, and television evangelists. Opposed to abortion, pornography, and what it views as the marginalizing of religion in American public life, the Religious Right has also championed prayer in the public schools. In the 1980s it gave strong support to President Ronald Reagan.

They not only misinterpret the second amendment...they advocate guns, which advocates violence.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
4. So now being a teacher requires
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:50 AM
Dec 2012

To also be a sharp shooter in case of instances like today. Why not replace teachers with soldiers, makes so much more sense.

 

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)
18. and shootouts in schools are good how? And
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:43 AM
Dec 2012

having a gun in your hand when the cops show up equals bye-bye to you, hero


these morons don'think anything through.

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
26. "these morons don't think anything through," and...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:24 AM
Dec 2012

they don't know anything about psychological projection revealing what's inside their subconsciousness (re: "blood on their hands&quot

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
5. Or maybe we should stop enabling mass murderers?
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:51 AM
Dec 2012

This sort of response just reeks of the same ass-backwards thinking that leads to college orientations that involve "how to not get raped" seminars.

southerncrone

(5,506 posts)
6. As a former teacher,
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:52 AM
Dec 2012

believe me, there are MANY teachers who would do more harm w/guns than w/o! At the HS level, it could be dangerous because students who are upset could get a teacher's gun & do major damage. Teens are emotional time bombs. Teachers are already responsible for juggling so many jobs at once, they don't need to worry about protecting a gun, too!
Once again, gun lobby talking out of their anus.

LiberalFighter

(50,950 posts)
73. Too many think that one way fits all.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:10 PM
Dec 2012

To think that all teachers would be qualified to own and use a gun is totally crazy. I bet if the NRA and others had their way they would want all teachers be required to own and take their guns to school with them. The real reason being to increase sales of guns so they can have more profit.

You are right that many teachers would do more harm with a gun than without. No different in any employment place. The difference being that there are too many immature, highly emotional kids that are not fully competent to make good decisions. Place them in classrooms with 20+ for one teacher and a lot bad can happen when the teacher loses track of what is happening around them. When kids are not properly supervised it increases the odds that kids will do something they shouldn't because they can get away with it.

The teachers in schools are not all in their prime. They range from early 20s to possibly late 60s. How easy is it to distract a newbie or a teacher in their twilight years? If a student had a teacher that was very guarded with their gun there would still be a multitude of teachers that give them more opportunities.

It is money that blinds the NRA and their sisters. They don't care if people are killed.

Students are emotional time bombs waiting to be set off as you stated. And people want to increase the odds that they would come into possession of a weapon? Who really needs to be locked away in an insane asylum?

doc03

(35,349 posts)
9. I wouldn't be that surprised if they wanted to arm the kids too.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:57 AM
Dec 2012

Remembering some of my teachers I wouldn't want to see them armed with a deadly weapon either.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
68. That could be sorta interesting.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:19 PM
Dec 2012

Surprised some tv network has not brought up the idea for a reality show.

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
11. Think the parents of the children
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:10 AM
Dec 2012

would be well within their rights to sue him.. Sick fucks don't change. You are right see what happens when teachers have the guns. This is what happens when teachers have guns. ouch. Something unexpected happens. problem is. if someone suddenly pulls a gun on you. What the fuck good is that gun in your desk. Suppose they all need those nice hidden mini guns that we see in Silverado. X_X

Kinda figured where my brother would be on this albeit hearing him say he agrees with Mike Huckabee just sends chills down my spine. Have no idea how we are related..



alp227

(32,034 posts)
12. Well, the shooter had fucking BODY ARMOR...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:11 AM
Dec 2012

so the shooter would not immediately go down if someone were to fire back. furthermore is it REALLY safe to fire back in a crowded room?

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
39. This is a detail I had not heard yet.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:24 AM
Dec 2012

Yesterday's shooter was wearing body armor?
Then anyone who tried to take him out would be making themselves the number one next target.

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
27. AND the typical projection (re: "blood on their hands" accusation).
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:32 AM
Dec 2012

Looks like that idiot feels guilty without realizing it.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
16. I fucking knew it would happen!
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:32 AM
Dec 2012

Hell, if the kids had had gun it wouldn't have happened.....right?
Larry Pratt is a fucking idiot.

aquart

(69,014 posts)
19. Because teachers are unlikely to be ambushed and overpowered by a gang of students
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:01 AM
Dec 2012

who think it would be fun to have a gun.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
20. The guy was wearing a bullet proof vest for gods sake!
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:26 AM
Dec 2012

If teachers had guns they might have fired at him but the result would most likely be more dead teachers.

Zoeisright

(8,339 posts)
21. I've never understood why Leplant and Pratt aren't dead.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:39 AM
Dec 2012

Isn't it statistically more likely they would be killed by their own guns? That's a fucking shame that hasn't happened.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
23. Yup, this is the guy Alex Jones shills for, Libertarian and Freedumb fighters. Shoot those drones!
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:38 AM
Dec 2012

So all of this BS is going mainstream. Just peachy.

Gabby Hayes

(289 posts)
28. "More Guns Less Crime" author already on the air
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:39 AM
Dec 2012

Jones protege George Noory (host of the Coast to Coast AM radio program) got John Lott on the air right away this morning. Lott is a frequent guest because Noory always invites him after a massacre. The program will be on for another half hour if anyone wants to vent on this fool Noory. You can send him a live comment or "Fast Blast" through the program's site at www.coasttocoastam.com. If you really want to hurt his feelings, mention that one of the old guys from "The Official George Noory Sucks Thread" sent you.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
24. Those BASTARDS could not even wait ONE DAY?
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:51 AM
Dec 2012

Fuck them and the bloodbath they rode in on. The good
people of the USA are done with this shit, so STFU Mr. pRATt.

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
25. Fuck arming the teachers. I say arm the children!! I would have had an infinitely less traumatic
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:08 AM
Dec 2012

childhood if I could have packed a 38 inside my lunch bucket and next to my Bologna sandwich and banana

Response to Douglas Carpenter (Reply #25)

Zookeeper

(6,536 posts)
29. The best defense is a good offense. That's what the gun nuts are doing.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 06:35 AM
Dec 2012

The people getting rich promoting the U.S. gun fetish aren't wasting any time in going on the attack; it diverts attention from their truly indefensible actions.

They are wrong, wrong, wrong. Stinking sociopaths.

oldbanjo

(690 posts)
34. The biggest problem is no one is at home teaching their kids,
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 07:25 AM
Dec 2012

both parents have to work. I am against the video games.

bora13

(860 posts)
33. make lemonade out of lemons
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 07:25 AM
Dec 2012

If this nation can't see eye to eye on some rational gun control laws, then maybe we can take a defensive posture by retrofitting all schools with bullet proof glass and security doors. It would create a lot of new jobs to boot.

secondvariety

(1,245 posts)
35. These were the same
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 07:30 AM
Dec 2012

words that came out of my gun obsessed co-worker. I told him to shut his fucking mouth.

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
36. FUCK THAT! This killing likely happened BECAUSE a teacher was armed! The killer's mother!
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:02 AM
Dec 2012

... who the kid took her weapons from after killing her. And even if she had one of them at school and was there and he were to come in to kill her there then, would she have shot him and stopped the violence then? Not likely unless she was a nutball too (which might be the case if she owned three guns as a teacher).

The F'ing NRA and gun nuts need to stop this utter BS and stop being psycho themselves in making these recommendations and promoting the very psychotic killing personalities they are creating these messes with promoting that kind of logic!

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
71. And I'm still wondering what the owner of the gun that the killer in Oregon this week feels about...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:50 PM
Dec 2012

... his "right" to bear arms owning the assault rifle that killed his "friend" (who "stole" it) and two other people here in Portland! It's been a horrible week.

Riley18

(1,127 posts)
37. The murderer's mother had guns and he killed her with them.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:05 AM
Dec 2012

As a teacher of 10 year old kids, I have enough to do. Also, since I have a right wing governor, the bastard would expect me to pay for the "school" gun.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
38. I don't want to shoot and kill people.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:17 AM
Dec 2012

I don't want the responsibility of carry a deadly weapon on my person. I don't want to live with the thought that I had to take a life. I don't want to spend time every month practicing shooting because I'm a lousy shot. I don't want to try and figure out which person with the gun is the bad guy if two people are shooting at each other. I might shoot the good guy.

I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN FEAR!

Doug.Goodall

(1,241 posts)
40. If the school had poison gas sprayers, it would have stopped it too
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:29 AM
Dec 2012

Good old nerve gas would have killed the shooter, and the total death toll would only have been 25 or 26.

 

John2

(2,730 posts)
42. This rightwing
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 08:50 AM
Dec 2012

nut is an idiot with his propaganda, just like Huckabee. As the investigation expands and more information comes in, I think we will find out how much this rightwing propaganda has made it dangerous for American society, where people live in communities afraid of other Americans. Americans believe they have to arm ourselves because of this rightwing propaganda and fear of the Government.

Now this mother of two sons, purchased two hand guns and now we know a rifle too with hundreds of rounds of ammunition to protect her family in a small hometown in Connecticut.
We also have initial reports, the murderer also was wearing a bullet proof vest of all things. Now I wonder why she needed all that equipment just to protect herself? I think the investigation should spread into checking her associates and background, why she felt a need to arm herself and why she had such a fear of society? That includes her politcal leanings and associations. She might have bought into the same right wing propaganda, the gun lobby espouses. I would also like to know what kinda mother she was to raise a son, that had no feelings for the preservation of life and resorted to killing five and ten year olds?

Turbineguy

(37,346 posts)
47. Even better:
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:48 AM
Dec 2012

we should all put loaded guns outside our front doors. That way, anybody walking up to our houses can shoot us!

LiveNudePolitics

(285 posts)
48. It's as if these
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:51 AM
Dec 2012

gun owners think we are living in some kind of Bam! Pow! video game universe, where if they just have the right weapon at hand they can be the big hero in any situation. How can the answer to gun violence be more guns?
And why is the NRA such a force in politics, with standing as a group that stands up for rights? All they protect is their market. Lobbying to continue to manufacture and sell more guns is their clear goal.

Paladin

(28,265 posts)
49. Yeah, By All Means, Let's Blame The Victims.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:52 AM
Dec 2012

About what I'd expect from a brain-dead, gun-addled prick like Pratt.

Just FYI: Gun Owners Of America is the group that attracts those who think the NRA is too moderate regarding firearms policy. Really.

llmart

(15,540 posts)
64. Thank you for posting that.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:17 PM
Dec 2012

The NRA gets all the press but those of us who know about the Gun Owners of America group know that it is a thousand times worse than the NRA if you can imagine that.

 

B-ONE Lancer

(15 posts)
50. WE NEED TO MARCH IN THE STREETS TO CHANGE THE LAWS
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:58 AM
Dec 2012

I have just sent this to the GOA and it is time to go into the streets these organizations need to be held accountable right a long with the media who will try to disuss this to death to try and figure out what was going through this person and future persons head, and this will be kicked down the road---enough is enough.


Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, who tossed out this old bullshit today:

"Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands. Federal and state laws combined to insure that no teacher, no administrator, no adult had a gun at the Newtown school where the children were murdered. This tragedy underscores the urgency of getting rid of gun bans in school zones. The only thing accomplished by gun free zones is to insure that mass murderers can slay more before they are finally confronted by someone with a gun."

Your organization will no doubt get a lot of e-mails on what your boss's logic is and I support all of those groups and people that are going to "DISCUSS " the twisted logic coming out of a groups mouth means that this organization and the NRA should not be held accountable for the deaths of children at a school.

The simplistic idea that a five year old should go into a class room and see there teacher packing a side arm to protect not only themself and the the little tykes says something about WRONG, its says live in a state of fear and inequality, because there is more of this coming down the road of life.

Because you are lobbyists group and you know what is good/best for AMERICA by god.

This organization of hypocrites and this logic goes beyond the pale and clearly shows the outright lack of epathy to what a gun does, how people get there hands on a gun, and what they do with a gun, its shows that this organization and the NRA and other groups feels that when you walk into a store, school, church ect...that everyone has a gun should have it strapped on there side just like the good old days of days gone by, so if someone says something wrong or looks at them wrong, well let them go into the street and settle it out in the street, just like in the twisted shots in a movie or a play station game.

No, your director and all of its supporters have blood on his and her hands because in this country last year there was over 9,000 deaths caused by a gun, while in Japan there was 4.
The facts speak to this reality.
This society is violent and because of this lets have a gun society and where-by there will be "NO" accountability except to have discussions on what caused this to try and figure out the mental state of the individual act ect....which is another way of kicking the can down the road without a civil solution, like having back ground checks, closing straw sales, assault rifle ban, and a gun having the means of a gun to hold over 9 shells, and the sale of high velocity shells that can pierce a armored truck---thats the ticket, lets sell military grade firearms and armament.
Just like the right wing Supreme Court hypocrite Scalia, you know the same guy who's relative father was a gangster said it alright to sell shoulder launch missiles.
Did he (SCALIA) ever come to one of your speak overs like he did for Alec and the NRA?

In my 62 years everytime when I see or hear about something like this I harken back some 50 years ago when at my school we had the same thing and my princple was shot and killed and two students and another teacher where wounded, because there are no checks and balances of accountability.
I can still remember after my President was murdered and about a year after his death how a young man went up into a tower in Texas and murdered and wounded over 14 people.

And for your organization mantra to lay it at the feet of gun control supporters feet is bull shit.
Why don't you go and visit each parent of one of these dead children and ask them what they really think of your organization and the NRA and instead of you thinking for them and what you think is best for them, the logic is failing and people are dead, over 9,000 last year.
And while you are there talking to these parents have a gun control person there so that it can be "FAIR AND BALANCE", then we can have the debate of what needs to be done.

To sum it up if you want to play with guns take your logic and join the military

bamacrat

(3,867 posts)
51. A question I have always had about this argument...
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:59 AM
Dec 2012

is are the teachers going to be carrying a gun while they teach and interact with the kids? That would be dangerous and probably scare the kids. What if one of the kids grabbed it or it fell out of its holster? No, the teacher would probably have it in their desk. According to reports the shooter walked in and shot the teacher first. The teachers gun would then be useless, except to the shooter, it would give them another weapon to continue their killing spree. Maybe having armed personnel in a school isn't a bad idea but it should be a member of law enforcement not a teacher or other school faculty members.

Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)
53. "Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands??"
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 11:22 AM
Dec 2012

I don't need a gun to punch this guy in the nose, which I would do in a heartbeat if he said that to my face.

DollarBillHines

(1,922 posts)
61. Yeah, Larry, nothing like some crossfire to liven things up.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:03 PM
Dec 2012

$100 says this asslick has never been in a shoot-or-die situation.

Motherfucker would probably shit his pants if the deal went down.

nineteen50

(1,187 posts)
62. Everyone complains about throwing money at problems
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:08 PM
Dec 2012

why don't they also complain about throwing guns at every problem?

 

toby jo

(1,269 posts)
70. Teachers? No way. An armed guard at every school is on the horizon.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:26 PM
Dec 2012

You buy a gun, you get a $100 tax bill to pay for the guards society needs everywhere. Some of that money can go to help defray the daily funeral expenses of your victims. Some of it can go to help pay for college and living expenses when the wage earner takes a bite.

And what do you have to give when the light of someone's life goes out? When you put a bullet into their 5 yr. old kindergartener?

As for more weapons means more safety, what about nukes? If we just let every country arm itself with a nuke, we'll all be safe. Somehow that hasn't caught on in the world stage.

jzodda

(2,124 posts)
72. Letting the streets run red with blood is the outcome of this talking point.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 03:53 PM
Dec 2012

They now no longer speak about "rights" but they advocate arming everybody like the wild west. Its a disaster in the making. I can only imagine a nation where everybody is walking or driving around armed. We are already a culture that celebrates violence so once we are all armed and dangerous I would imagine the streets would run red with blood.

booley

(3,855 posts)
74. projection is a classic political tool
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 04:42 PM
Dec 2012

this guys knows full well people like him will be accused of "having blood on his hands" for his groups efforts to make guns easy to get and as unregulated as possible.

So accuse his opponents of it and get them to waste time being defensive.

IF this devolves into just a "am not, are too" screed, then the gun lobby wins because nothing will get done.. again.

Blasphemer

(3,261 posts)
75. This argument doesn't make any sense whatsoever
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:36 PM
Dec 2012

Yeah, I know the gun lobby feels the need to get on top of the issue because they are very much screwed right now but this argument is asinine. Even if there were guns in every school classroom, they'd be locked up. If an armed gunman starts randomly killing people with an automatic weapon, it doesn't leave much time for unsecuring a weapon in self-defense.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
77. I would think they mean carrying a gun on their
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:44 PM
Dec 2012

person in a concealed holster. I looked up footage of a Bushmaster and lets say the first responder was the principal leaving the meeting after hearing a popping sound. The killer probably got off a full magazine before the principal would even have arrived. Would the principal have drawn her weapon before seeing the gun? What if it was some kid you let off a string of fireworks? What would have happened to the principal's job if that was the case and she drew without a threat? How well trained would the principal even have to be to intervene (recognizing the first responder police officer was shot in the Sikh temple - forewarned, armed, and carrying his gun).

How likely is she going to be to take down an armed assailant in a bullet proof vest with a Bushmaster capable of firing 20 rounds in less than a minute (probably 30 seconds)?

I would like to see a news agency run some simulations to see what is really capable for an unaware first responder with limited training.

Blasphemer

(3,261 posts)
81. I never even considered that as that's even nuttier to me
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 09:02 PM
Dec 2012

Teachers carrying concealed weapons on their persons? Not even remotely within the realm of possibility. But, I agree, even if they did, it guarantees nothing with regard to preemptively taking out an armed assailant with that kind of equipment. Even someone without a vest on who looks perfectly innocent can effectively hide a weapon and catch everyone by surprise when he or she starts firing. Unless one is tipped off beforehand or happens to glimpse the weapon and has amazing reflexes, it is just not that likely that someone is going to be able to take out an armed assassin under these circumstances.

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
76. Yeah, right.
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:38 PM
Dec 2012

More guns, to kill more people, and traumatize little kids even more. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Freakin' moran, and reject of humanity is what this clown is!

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
78. Where was the security in that school ?
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:45 PM
Dec 2012

We have to have more security in our schools. Doors locked and hired security guards .. that's what it has come to in the U.S. .. unfortunately. Not every teacher packing.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
79. A police officer in every school
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:50 PM
Dec 2012

$100,000/yr spread over approximately 250 students. Additional cost of $400/yr (about 3-4% of total per pupil spend). That may be cheap insurance for added security and also added benefit of offering a different perspective to the learning process.

Having untrained teachers carrying does not seem a realistic solution. I am not sure a armed police officer would have made a difference in this case. it would have depended on his/her placement at the start of the shooting. Lets say he/she is doing a DARE presentation in a classroom away from the shooting. Most of the action would be over before he/she could get there. Also he/she could be the first one shot if placed at the front door.

 

Bigmack

(8,020 posts)
85. Agree totally, but add this...
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:04 PM
Dec 2012

A deranged or pissed off person could go to the school without a weapon, hit the armed cop on the head with a bat....

Then they'd be an armed deranged or pissed off person....

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
86. Or he could hit a cop in the head before going to the school
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:36 PM
Dec 2012

One thing I don't think is a good idea is to have teachers whose primary duty is to teach and be in close contact with students (think grabbing a gun from a holster) carrying a gun. An armed marshall/police officer/well trained security guard is a middle ground.

 

Bigmack

(8,020 posts)
88. Agreeing with you... a story...
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 06:15 PM
Dec 2012

The HS where I taught - upper middle class suburban district - had a cop stationed there permanently.

He was enormously popular with the kids. He was a handsome guy about 30, and the girls especially loved him.

He could be a real hardass... he even put a few kids in cuffs, but generally everybody loved him.

One day, I watched a group of young men - who all liked him - walking in a group around him as he was talking. I had a cold chill, when I realized any one - or all - of those young men could take his weapon.

I was a tiny bit nervous from that time.

Maybe my fears were the result of my time in Vietnam... don't trust anybody in close physical proximity ...

AndyA

(16,993 posts)
80. Larry Pratt is a total, complete idiot
Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:52 PM
Dec 2012

Guns in a classroom full of small, curious children? What could possibly go wrong?

It's ridiculous to think that an armed teacher could have done anything about this. First of all, for safety's sake, any gun would have to be kept under lock and key to prevent it from being accessed by a child.

In the time it would take to get the key, put it in the lock, grab the gun and aim it, the teacher would have been dead. And the shooter angrier because someone was going to pull a gun on him.

Yeah, that's the solution: more guns, more guns, more guns. Bullsh!t. People like Larry Pratt drive the crazy gun culture in this country, and he's the one who's responsible for these shootings. He may not have pulled the trigger, but played a role leading up to it.

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