Weighing in ...
In the midst of the aftermath of the most recent school shooting in southern Florida on February 14th we now have our illustrious President and a few other pundits calling for "arming teachers and staff" as a "best panacea" for counteracting "the next school shooting incident" (wherever that may occur).
Of course this notion is pure fallacy, as educators as a rule tend to be along the line of the idealistic and artistic types. The kind who "have trouble understanding the fascination some have with violence and action films/video games".
More into poetry, the arts, or sentimental fare.
The type of personality who would gravitate towards being the kind of individual who would be most likely to want to learn marksmanship and assume the kind of authority one needs to be allowed to guard a business or institution are usually more blue-collar, more "roughneck" in nature. Similar to the nature of the shooters themselves---except with a sense of morals and "commitment to others", as opposed to the rebelliousness and alienation felt by someone who would relish "gunning others down" for either pleasure or "revenge".
That's why it would be a better idea to hire security personnel from a professional (and reputable) company. Preferable a company that also does business with banks and corporate offices, one whose employees actually know the ins-and-outs of what it takes to protect valuable assets.
In the midst of the aftermath of the most recent school shooting in southern Florida on February 14th we now have our illustrious President and a few other pundits calling for "arming teachers and staff" as a "best panacea" for counteracting "the next school shooting incident" (wherever that may occur).
Of course this notion is pure fallacy, as educators as a rule tend to be along the line of the idealistic and artistic types. The kind who "have trouble understanding the fascination some have with violence and action films/video games".
More into poetry, the arts, or sentimental fare.
The type of personality who would gravitate towards being the kind of individual who would be most likely to want to learn marksmanship and assume the kind of authority one needs to be allowed to guard a business or institution are usually more blue-collar, more "roughneck" in nature. Similar to the nature of the shooters themselves---except with a sense of morals and "commitment to others", as opposed to the rebelliousness and alienation felt by someone who would relish "gunning others down" for either pleasure or "revenge".
That's why it would be a better idea to hire security personnel from a professional (and reputable) company. Preferable a company that also does business with banks and corporate offices, one whose employees actually know the ins-and-outs of what it takes to protect valuable assets.
Only Trump would suggest that the solution to the issue of mentally ill people shooting and killing school kids is to arm the teachers and staff.
ReplyDeleteScholarly types just don't have the personality, character, or mindset to be "civilian militia" types.
DeleteIf the schools and classrooms have become so lethal and vulnerable to the whims of violent extremist psychopaths, then the only viable solution is to hire the kind of professional personnel who are normally qualified to guard other kinds of precious assets---like money, gold, valuable artifacts and works of art, and the such.
Their order-of-the-day being along the lines of "Guard our children the same way you guard our gold and silver and national treasures!".