1. I know arming teachers polls well, but it is an incredibly dangerous policy that will put our children at risk. This is literally a plan that will kill more kids at school.
2. Teachers are not law enforcement officials. They are not trained on an ongoing basis in how to defuse active shooter incidents. We should let teachers do their jobs -- educate our students -- and not weigh them down with an impossible new responsibility.
3. There is NO EVIDENCE that presence of armed person can defuse an active shooter. In bank robberies, presence of armed guards actually ↑ likelihood of injury.
In robberies w/ no guards violent events in 4% of cases
W/guards, rate tripled to 12.8%. revealnews.org/article/fbi-ba…
In robberies w/ no guards violent events in 4% of cases
W/guards, rate tripled to 12.8%. revealnews.org/article/fbi-ba…
4. There are no two sides to this story. The research overwhelmingly shows that more guns in more places translates into higher rates of gun violence. Arming teachers in classrooms is absolutely deadly. hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/
5. Look at active shooting scenarios. An FBI study of 160 active shooting incidents between 2000 and 2013 found:
21 active shooters were stopped by UNARMED civilians
1 was stopped by someone carrying a firearm.
fbi.gov/news/stories/f…
21 active shooters were stopped by UNARMED civilians
1 was stopped by someone carrying a firearm.
fbi.gov/news/stories/f…
6. To make matters worse, for many mass shooters, armed teachers are no deterrent, they’re part of the fantasy. For many, provoking a lethal response IS PART OF THE PLAN. washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
7. Even with proper training, you cannot expect a teacher to shoot down the attacker without injuring or putting innocent students in harm's way. You are in an adrenaline-filled situation without any clear sense of where shots are coming from, who the "bad guy" is.
8. Instead of working to make GUNS HARDER TO GET this administration is considering PUMPING MORE GUNS INTO OUR CLASSROOMS -- significantly increasing the danger to our students and to our teachers.
9. Trump is focused on paying back @NRA's $30,000,000 investment in his 2016 election by helping the lobby advance its "guns everywhere and for everyone" agenda. It's absolutely vile, disgusting, and grotesque.
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