In Oregeon, we now have a law requiring that a peer to peer gun transfer has to be done withe background checks.
I have yet to have even one single person - district attorney, police, sheriffs, or federal agency tell me how that is going to be enforced.
Oregon, and in particular from Portland down the valley to the southern border, is liberal (our Governor just said that she is going to prevent our Oregon National Guard from serving any duty on the southern border - aftr all, we are a sanctuary state) and this law was passed by the liberals. And I have absolutely no doubt (having heard some of them already doing so) that they are going around patting themselves on the back for making Oregon “safer”.
What absolute, idiotic, complete and thorough nonsense. They - both the libwerals and the police agneices have nothing whatsoever they can do unless a) someone voluntarily complies; b) the transfer occurs and someone says "Guess what? I just bought a gun from (Joe/Sally/whomever); or c) the purchaser commits a crime with the weapon, and admits where they obtained it.
Or d) the police start trying to set up “sting” operations, soliciting people to sell their guns to the police undercover agent.
Will it stop criminals from obtaining a gun, likely already owned by another criminal?
Really?
And as to arming teachers: Someone intent on mass killing comes into the school, and you, the teacher, have the children in lockdown in your classroom. does the door have a window? He can shoot through that, either to kill students he can see, or to open the door. Or he can fire at the door locking mechanism and possibly breach the door. Now what will you do - throw a pencil at him?
You also presume that if the shooting starts, you are going to be in cyour classroom; but you may, instead, be one of the teachers in the hallways trying to get students to cover - and he comes aroung the corner. Now what do you do? Throw a pencil?
I have a relative, school teacher, who took training because she had every intention of protecting her students, and she carried.
And amusingly, one of the male teachers said, not entirely jokingly, that if the shooting started, he was coming to her classroom.
Not all teachers should carry. In fact, many should not carry; they either do not have the ability to shoot someone who intends murder, or they are prone to panic reaction under stress, or they simply cannot shoot effectively in a stress situation. Those that can may be the one who stops mayhem in its tracks. The fact that an individual cannot or would not carry should have no influence on allowing someone else, competent and competently trained, to do so. As the police commander from another jurisdiction said after Florida: " teachers, coaches and admin are the first responders. Do we want them to show up with a pencil or a pistol?
