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user-inactivated  ·  4388 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Some Facts about Guns and Mass Shootings in the US

I'm friends with a new kindergarten teacher on Facebook. Her take:

    Sickened at what happened today. School is supposed to be a safe place. And to think if was a kindergarten classroom...teachers should be allowed to conceal weapons these days. I would drop him.

Oh, god.





monevo  ·  4385 days ago  ·  link  ·  

its better than just getting shot and killed dont you think?

dont confuse though, not saying that's the solution.

user-inactivated  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is it exaggerated to imagine that the next headline states "educator goes crazy, shoots her whole class"?

monevo  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yes, but you must solve that problem where teachers are treated like scum, unlike the Finnish

user-inactivated  ·  4352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, good one!

user-inactivated  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·  

She is an educator, and I would hope I could count on her to say something reasonable like, let's ban automatic weapons forever. Instead she said something idiotic.