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[Poopadoop]

What's also clear is if you have a gun and are intent on shooting people, if you know teachers are armed, you're not going to a school and instead will go somewhere you're unlikely to face resistance.

So mass shootings are acceptable as long as they don't take place in a school. Gotcha.

[wufwugy]

So mass shootings are acceptable as long as they don't take place in a school. Gotcha.

Think about it a little more critically.

[Poopadoop]

Think about it a little more critically.

No, you.

[OngBonga]

So mass shootings are acceptable as long as they don't take place in a school. Gotcha.

That's one crazy leap of logic.

I'm pointing out that guns are a deterrant. If EVRYONE was armed, well now you're going to have a really hard time finding a vulnerable target.

And I'm not ashamed to say that I'd be less horrified to see a bunch of adults mercilessly killed than kids. Is that old fashioned? Am I being ageist or something?

[Poopadoop]

That's one crazy leap of logic.

I'm pointing out that guns are a deterrant. If EVRYONE was armed, well now you're going to have a really hard time finding a vulnerable target.

And I'm not ashamed to say that I'd be less horrified to see a bunch of adults mercilessly killed than kids. Is that old fashioned? Am I being ageist or something?

I'm only taking your argument to its logical conclusion.

But let's look at things more carefully. There's how many schools in the US and how many mass school shootings a year? (Of course any number > 0 is too many, but ignore that for now). The chance of a mass shooting in any given school in any given year is astronomically small. Putting guns in the hands of teachers will lead to at least some shootings (accidents or otherwise) that wouldn't have happened otherwise, and simply move the mass killers to another patch of turf.

The sum number of deaths will go up, not down.

[wufwugy]

I'm only taking your argument to its logical conclusion.

But let's look at things more carefully. There's how many schools in the US and how many mass school shootings a year? (Of course any number > 0 is too many, but ignore that for now). The chance of a mass shooting in any given school in any given year is astronomically small. Putting guns in the hands of teachers will lead to at least some shootings (accidents or otherwise) that wouldn't have happened otherwise, and simply move the mass killers to another patch of turf.

The sum number of deaths will go up, not down.

Why do they choose schools now?

[Poopadoop]

Why do they choose schools now?

Did you even read what I said?

[wufwugy]

I'm not going to play a game.