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they do it in Israel. I approve it here. send more darkies to the morgueHow is it promoting violence.You mean other than children not being mass murdered because it takes police with guns 4minutes to get to the school?
No, I mean reinforcing yet again the idea that the answer to violence is more violence and the impression projected visually that the kids live in a fucking war zone.
But hey, it's not like young minds are impressionable or anything....
Fucked up idea. Period.
Firearms are for DEFENSE. Typically when a criminal is aware that his intended victim may be armed, the criminal will move along.
That REDUCES violence.
"Firearms are for defense" ----- against what?
OTHER FIREARMS. Duh.
Seeing that your teacher has to pack heat sends the message to a kid that "the world you've been born into is so fucked up, you could be shot, any time". And reinforces the fucked-up values, already present all over the media, that violence is everywhere and that "might makes right".
THAT is fucked up. There's no other term for it. And nothing good is going to result from putting those impressions in impressionable young minds.
emotobabbling idiocy. Kids see armed cops every day. My kid's school-one of the top rated public schools in the state, has an armed officer.
And that's part of the job of being a cop, made necessary in part by this same violent mentality. It is NOT part of the job of being a teacher, and everybody knows that, including a child. Seeing that the teacher has to be armed teaches the child that both of them live in an unsafe environment and indeed, in a culture where violence is one of our virtues. And that wherever he goes in life -- even in a place as innocuous as a schoolroom -- he is not safe.
And that's fucked up.