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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
I have posted on the realities of school violence on numerous occasions here. I'll reiterate my position that I prefer armed guards in schools to arming teachers themselves.
...note: IMO teachers and all citizens would benefit from firearms training.
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Ive never been in a school that had armed guards and I've never been in a school where there was a shooting, or any fatal attack of any kind. The reality is that kids are violent and irrational a lot of the time as I see it... and the reality is that if violent and irrational people have relatively easy access to weapons of lethal force... you watch the body count pile up.
Growing up, I saw plenty of school fights of course, and even had a couple myself, and sometimes it could get nasty... I am pretty convinved that if a significant number of people in my school had accesss to a gun at home they could have got just by breaking a cabinet lock... I would have known someone who had been shot by someone by now.
The more guns are available the more shootings you will have, it is really a simple equation... any society can have as many civilian gun deaths as they are prepared to tolerate.