liquidlight

You're making the common, and often incorrect, assumption with this statement that the guns that are illegal were manufactured in America or ever existed as legal guns.

The truth of the situation is that there are a large number of non-American gun makers, Israeli, Swiss, and Russian to touch on some of the more popular ones, and that our government has zero control over any of these companies. Some of the guns that they make are barely legal in the countries where they are manufactured.

Banning the guns in America is not going to stop their production outside of our borders, and it is also not going to stop the already occuring illegal traffic of those guns into this country, on the contrary it's going to make it much more lucrative and profitable.

And also what about military armaments? To remove the illegal guns from circulation at their source you would have to stop making the firearms that are designed and intended for our soldiers. Granted, these start as legal guns, but if they were the only readily available weapons I would imagine them becoming a target for crime very quickly.

Please don't forget that when addressing the control of guns there are factors that are larger than the community involved or even simply our own nation.

Going back to arming teachers why should it be an all or nothing proposition? Being older and female doesn't decrease a persons capacity for rational judgement, or their aim in most cases. If the ability for teachers to carry guns were made optional and required certain training and qualification, much like an air marshall, what would happen to the behavior of the student that's only bringing weapons in to show off? Do you think they might hesitate a bit more if they have to wonder which teachers are armed, which are carrying concealed carry weapons?

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