{"id":28204,"date":"2018-02-19T23:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T23:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28204"},"modified":"2018-02-19T23:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T23:51:03","slug":"bad-guy-gun-meet-good-guy-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28204","title":{"rendered":"Bad guy with a gun, meet good guy with a gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/armed-teachers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28211\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/armed-teachers-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/armed-teachers-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/armed-teachers-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/armed-teachers-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/armed-teachers.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe it was Wayne LaPierre, the spokesman for the National Rifle Association, who said the following: <em>The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I probably mangled the quote a bit, but I am pretty sure it&#8217;s essentially what he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Parkland, Fla., high school massacre on Valentine&#8217;s Day has launched a new round of national discussion about gun violence and how we can stop this kind of insanity from recurring.<\/p>\n<p>One talking point &#8212; and I hear this among some of my social media acquaintances &#8212; is to arm school teachers. Give &#8217;em guns to use in the event someone enters the school to do serious harm. Some school districts in the Texas Panhandle have armed faculty members on duty.<\/p>\n<p>Is that a wise option? It gives me serious concern.<\/p>\n<p>I worry that an armed teacher &#8212; who would be certified to carry a concealed handgun under Texas law &#8212; might be unable to stop a gunman with a kill shot or at least with a bullet that disables the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>If the teacher, let&#8217;s say, is a former Army Green Beret or Navy SEAL, then I would have much more faith in the teacher&#8217;s ability to &#8220;neutralize&#8221; whoever opens fire in the school.<\/p>\n<p>I fully expect to get some criticism for this blog post from teachers, for whom I have the utmost respect and admiration already. I just fear that more guns beget more violence.<\/p>\n<p>A potential solution lies out there somewhere. I don&#8217;t know where it is or how we find it. I am going to remain queasy about the notion of arming school teachers without an ironclad guarantee that they can drop a shooter in his tracks <em>immediately<\/em> when gunfire erupts.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe it was Wayne LaPierre, the spokesman for the National Rifle Association, who said the following: The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun. I probably mangled the quote a bit, but I am pretty sure it&#8217;s essentially what he said. The Parkland, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad guy with a gun, meet good guy with a gun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-national-news","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28212,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28204\/revisions\/28212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}