The video of the police freezing in place while a gunman slaughtered fourth-graders and two teachers in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school classroom has me thinking about one thing.
It’s the notion proposed by Republican politicians that we need to arm teachers, allow them to carry handguns into the classroom so they can take out shooters who did what the lunatic did in Uvalde.
My mind and my memory also are drawn to a comment that a North Texas educator told me just recently. He said teachers’ sign on to educate children. They do not become educators to pack firearms into school.
This educator told me in no way would he allow teachers to carry guns to work. What he didn’t say is what he would do if the local school board voted to authorize the arming of teachers. I think I know what he would do. He would resign.
Republican pols are wrong to suggest that teachers with guns is the correct response to this kind of carnage we have witnessed in Uvalde, or Newtown, Conn., or Littleton, Colo.
Meanwhile, our rage mounts as the video of the cops’ non-response to the Uvalde shooter burns ever more deeply into our soul.
