What do you expect, this came from the Education Secretary:

Maybe like Trump, her family just bought her education? That’s my guess.

“I was just there to be there,” she said. “I told the student newspaper reporters that I would love to come back sometime.”

I agree with you on the Trump and Cillizza thing and didn’t mean to take away from those points (I should have clarified that).

As someone who’s family is directly impacted by this decision, it sucks, but at the same time though I could pass on some knowledge on how exactly they are at risk and to what degree (ICE…

Dreamers didn’t lose their protection. They lose their ability to renew their protection. My son-in-law is a dreamer. He renewed his status in October before Trump ended it initially. He is “good” for 2 years from then. Yes, it is scary. Him and my daughter are working with an immigration lawyer to get him on the…

As a Floridian and having watched them screw over the education budget, I’ll tell you how this works out. They’ll take 400 million of the current education budget and allocate it specifically for that task. This will leave a 400 million gap that the schools will have to just “deal with”

Police are often trained for this and have an easy way of identifying themselves from shooters. Police running into a school with an unknown number of people with guns and not knowing which is that actual shooter is a disaster waiting to happen.

Even then, I don’t want more guns in schools. Say what you will, but more guns in a gun fight will only end in more tragedy. I don’t see very many of those armed teachers willing to shoot back and take the chance of hitting an innocent student.

There is a huge difference between giving your own life to save your students and taking the chance of shooting and killing one or more innocent students. My wife is a teacher. She’s a lot more pro-gun than I am, but even she said that she would never want to be put in that situation. Teachers all over the country are…

Honestly, He may have thought he was willing. Then in the moment realized he couldn’t.

This shows how flawed the “good guys with guns” solution is. No one will know what they are willing to do until they are in the situation, even with training.

I agree. Once again, understanding why he did what he did only enforces that the “Good guys with guns” mentality is flawed.

You know what really sucks? Telling the mother of your grandchild that having a gun in her house makes her and her child less safe (statistically) and having her reply:

“Yes, I understand that, but I will FEEL safer!”

I mean, WTF?!?? Really?!?!

I also love the talking points of her husband of “Yeah, but they are fun to…

I wish it was this easy. My daughter’s husband and his friends ( 18-24 age group), still cling to their guns, even their AR-15s. Where I live (Rural central Florida) that is a common thing. My daughter even said “I know I would feel safer with a gun in the house” even though I can show her all the stats in the world…

as a non-religious person this probably has a lot less meaning, but...

AMEN!

I never asked you to feel bad for him. I was trying to make the point that it’s important to understand why he did what he did. It helps show that good guys with guns are NOT the solution to this problem.

Yeah, I only found that out later this morning from my original comment. My point was that he didn’t seek to redeem his actions. He knew what he did was wrong and even just resigning shows us that.

It is important to understand his frame of mind. As you’ve said this helps show that good guys with guns aren’t the solution. You don’t have to feel bad for him, and I’m not asking you to.

As a husband to a teacher, I feel more guns in school would make it a more dangerous place, even if all those people with guns are…

I agree with you. My point to my wife, and here, is that just because you think he should have gone in, that you think it’s shitty that he didn’t, doesn’t mean you can understand why he did what he did.

This is great counterpoint to “more guns will make us safer” (as you’ve said).

My wife and I joked about her getting the training for the bonus, but her fear is that no other teachers would do it and they would some how expect her to have to bring and use a gun in such situations. Lets be clear, she is wholly against the idea that she should have to enter a gun fight as a teacher.

Lets hope, but if those that vote GOP think more guns are the solution, how does that help the current situation?