Respectfully Tom, I think it's vastly, galactically more bizarre. Besides, the school is arming teachers - but with a hopelessly, absurdly ineffective "weapon", instead of one that might actually deter shooters and/or save lives.
Police carry guns, not rocks, for a reason. If my kids were faced with a shooter, I damn sure want someone in that school to have a gun to defend them. Not a bucket of rocks.
Does anyone here defend their home or family with rocks? If not, why not? Please discuss.
I don't think that police carrying guns is a universal thing. Many of them carry lesser weapons. It's just domestically that they carry guns, and in many other countries as well. The same argument can be applied to say that police should be armed with armoured personnel carriers, attack drones, etc. Really, if one part of society escalates then the other parts escalate, and vice versa if they de-escalate. My sheriff department for our county with small municipalities has an armoured skid steer and an armoured personnel carrier (which actually pulled over an ordinary citizen last year, facepalm...).
The local university police shot a mentally unwell student in the face with assault rifles when they saw his cane - they knew he had a cane and they knew he was unwell. Oh, and my son was 50ft. away sleeping when it happened, so that was great to have all those assault rifle wall-punching bullets flying around. The university graduated the graduate student a couple years later (no conflict of interest there...), with half a face.
My mom was a quarter mile away from the San Bernardino shooting.
One of my friends graduated from parkland.
Last year I was working and a target practice bullet from three lots over came whizzing by 30 ft. away from me. Probably a responsible gun owner, but accidents happen, huh?
The bullets are getting closer to me and mine, and I'm not cool with it. They are coming from the guns of terrorists, police, irresponsible gun owners, and "responsible" gun owners. The quotes on the word responsible indicate that we don't know sh*t about what's in the head of anyone else - we really don't. I'm not judging anyone, I'm just judging everyone realistically.
If responsible people with guns want to keep them, I'll support that as long as they don't just hunker in their bunkers. They need to get out and say what their legitimate solutions are. I really will support retention of 2nd amendment rights. I value that. I just don't want to wait for another person to die in the same old way, and I don't want to wait for my family or myself to receive a bullet directly for your 2nd amendment rights.
Do you get where I, personally, am coming from?