Trump

[F-ZeroOne]

"all doped up"...? Then shouldn't every American high school or college campus resemble something out of "Battle Royale"?

[carolen]

... The cause of this 19th USA school massacre so far in 2018.

Sorry, but no:

No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong.

This statistic was provided by a campaign group that counts a school shooting as

“any time a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds.”

Even if no students are injured or even present, or if (as in one case) a man committed suicide by shooting himself outside a school. Doesn't mean that this tragedy, the other shootings mentioned in the report or any of the other atrocities that happen all too often in America are any less significant or awful. But there haven't been 18 school massacres so far this year.

[gravy]

Just five of Everytown’s 18 school shootings listed for 2018 happened during school hours and resulted in any physical injury.

Phew! Only 1 every 6 school days!

That's fine then obviously

[everklear]

He continues to demonstrate that he's an absolute moron, immediately picking up on nuggets of text that he likes from Russian twitter-bots and repeating it as though it's wisdom.

I've got to hand it to the kids from that school who are fighting back in social media.

[Deckard]

No way to prevent this,' says only nation where this regularly happens.

Says it all for me really.

And this too -

Half of all gun owners polled in 2017 - who skew white, rural and Republican - said that owning a firearm was part of their identity and nearly three-quarters said they could not imagine life without a gun.

FFS I thought I was bad with my iPhone !!

And presumably male too - I think its always strange to me that that demographic seem to ruin everything (violence, sexism, racism, trolling) and yet nothing ever happens to them...lucky they run the world.

[PFVA]

I went to school in Africa, Europe & South America and i never heard of armed teachers or as a matter of fact armed students. Maybe i'm just getting too old to understand.

Trump endorses guns for teachers to stop shootings

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43149694

[gilesgoat]

I went to school in Africa, Europe & South America and i never heard of armed teachers or as a matter of fact armed students. Maybe i'm just getting too old to understand.

Trump endorses guns for teachers to stop shootings

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43149694

It's simple Paula .. "to solve a guns problem .. what you need is MORE guns"

Then we'll start hearing about things like "Finally exasperated teacher after many years of holding back opens fires and kills 40 students in a classroom" ...

Don't worry, they'll simply add more guns then, you can't deny the American right to shoot yourself in the foot ...

[Deckard]

Perhaps the 4 R’s - reading, writing, arithmetic and rifles ?

[F-ZeroOne]

I went to school in Africa, Europe & South America and i never heard of armed teachers or as a matter of fact armed students. Maybe i'm just getting too old to understand.

Trump endorses guns for teachers to stop shootings

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43149694

As a friend of mine pointed out, this just means that the teachers will be the ones shot first - especially if they might be suspected of carrying firearms.

[F-ZeroOne]

[WiteWulf]

As a friend of mine pointed out, this just means that the teachers will be the ones shot first - especially if they might be suspected of carrying firearms.

Failing that, how long until the first story of a teacher shooting a kid by mistake because they thought they had a gun?

Happens all the time with police...only a matter of time before a maths teacher is either in counselling, prison or both for this, as I can't see them getting the same protection the police get for accidental shooting

[snaff]

As a friend of mine pointed out, this just means that the teachers will be the ones shot first - especially if they might be suspected of carrying firearms.

Failing that, how long until the first story of a teacher shooting a kid by mistake because they thought they had a gun?

Happens all the time with police...only a matter of time before a maths teacher is either in counselling, prison or both for this, as I can't see them getting the same protection the police get for accidental shooting

In the case of any physical aggression from a student to a teacher, the teacher will have to assume the perp is trying to get their gun to kill them and/or other students with it and they will be justified in using deadly force to prevent that.

[gravy]

Hahaha, the state of him

[merman]

Florida's Senate voted down an attempt to bring in a new law banning assault rifles.

Cannot believe the morons (probably many of them that "lost" thousands of Twitter followers when the service banned Russian bots) claiming it's a "false flag" attack and the students mourning their friends are "paid actors"...

[tufty]

Failing that, how long until the first story of a teacher shooting a kid by mistake because they thought they had a gun?

If it's a mental health issue, the teachers are absolutely the last people you want to be arming. Overworked, overstressed, many suffering from depression and / or anxiety disorders, let's pile on the stress by making them a target and giving them life-and-death decisions over their students. How long before we have a high school mass shooting carried out by a teacher?