{"id":29820,"date":"2018-05-19T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29820"},"modified":"2018-05-19T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:00:08","slug":"please-lets-not-arm-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29820","title":{"rendered":"Please, let’s not arm teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We’re heading into another “national conversation” about how to make our schools safer, about how to protect our children from gunmen who open fire in public school classrooms.<\/p>\n

Santa Fe High School in Galveston County, Texas, has become the latest — and certainly not the last — flashpoint in that discussion.<\/p>\n

Ten people are dead and 10 more are injured. A student has been taken into custody and has been charged with capital murder. He faces the death penalty if he’s convicted.<\/p>\n

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, vowed to make our “schools safer.” Yes, Mr. President, we’re all for it.<\/p>\n

Does that include arming teachers? For the umpteenth time, this blogger wants to say not just “no,” but “hell no!” <\/em><\/p>\n

I am at a loss as to what the solution is. I remain convinced that there can be a legislative remedy found that keeps faith with the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I am not smart enough to concoct a solution from this keyboard.<\/p>\n

However, I merely want to implore the president and other public officials to steer far, far away from a discussion about putting guns in teachers’ hands.<\/p>\n

The National Rifle Association keeps harping on the notion that “the only way to protect us from bad guys with guns is to put guns in the hands of good<\/em> guys.”<\/p>\n

So, that’s the answer? The way to end gun violence is to put more<\/em> guns out there? Such nonsense makes me want to scream.<\/p>\n

I do not want to hear that. Instead, I want to hear some possible solutions that place reasonable — and constitutional<\/em> — restrictions on individuals capable of doing harm to the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n

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