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All of them? Maybe they need to do their homework. 🤷

Do you have any serious reasons that law abiding adults should not be able to defend themselves?
Yes. The serious reason is the possible shooting and death of a teacher who is up against 200 angry students armed with loaded weapons and ready to shoot in a lecture hall.
 
Yes. The serious reason is the possible shooting and death of a teacher who is up against 200 angry students armed with loaded weapons and ready to shoot in a lecture hall.
If this is really true, that our college classes are filled up with 200 angry students, then it seems to me we have a whole slew of other issues needing to be dealt with in that respect. Meanwhile, simply because we identify other problems, that should not serve to justify the taking away of my rights to defend myself and my family.
 
If this is really true, that our college classes are filled up with 200 angry students, then it seems to me we have a whole slew of other issues needing to be dealt with in that respect. Meanwhile, simply because we identify other problems, that should not serve to justify the taking away of my rights to defend myself and my family.
So you want to have a situation which could easily result in several teachers shot to death because they gave homework assignments which were too difficult for some of the armed students?
 
Israel and Switzerland have high gun ownership with open carry being the norm. With low crime rates to boot.
 
my two cents…

I wouldn’t dare own a gun. I’m one of those who’d be more dangerous with one. Well, maybe a nerf gun.

I really like what B. Kliban observed in one of his cartoons - he dressed this character in an inflatable birdie tube, mismatched neon plaids and stripes, strange and frightening shoewear, and this hat with a will of its own…then in the caption beneath the cartoon he observed ā€œnature’s way of telling others to STAY AWAY.ā€

Then I read Gavin de Becker’s The Gift of Fear once a year.

I think having a gun is asking for a fight unless one’s in the armed forces or the police dept.

just my opinion…thanks for the topic…
 
my two cents…

I think having a gun is asking for a fight unless one’s in the armed forces or the police dept.

just my opinion…thanks for the topic…
I think not having a gun is asking for enslavement, harm, and/or death… of oneself, loved ones, and society in general.

Of course, I routinely dress in bird suits, mismatched neon plaids and stripes, strange and frightening shoewear, and hats with wills of their own! ;);)šŸ˜‰
 
my two cents…

I wouldn’t dare own a gun. I’m one of those who’d be more dangerous with one. Well, maybe a nerf gun.

I really like what B. Kliban observed in one of his cartoons - he dressed this character in an inflatable birdie tube, mismatched neon plaids and stripes, strange and frightening shoewear, and this hat with a will of its own…then in the caption beneath the cartoon he observed ā€œnature’s way of telling others to STAY AWAY.ā€

Then I read Gavin de Becker’s The Gift of Fear once a year.

I think having a gun is asking for a fight unless one’s in the armed forces or the police dept.

just my opinion…thanks for the topic…
I think that it is better not to own a gun if you do not have the training to know how to use a gun, give verbal commands to the criminals, etc.

A show of force usually works with criminals. A show of force worked in the Los Angelus riots.

However, it is best to hid your gun when the police come around. e.g. New Orleans and hurricane Katrina.

Everyone has their limits. If a group of criminals broke into your home and threatened the lives of your children, you are going to try to defend your children. Like everything else in life, there is a dumb way and a smart way to defend your children.
 
Yes. The serious reason is the possible shooting and death of a teacher who is up against 200 angry students armed with loaded weapons and ready to shoot in a lecture hall.
Let’s say you are being serious about considering this a legitimate threat… Then why don’t we have a rash of mobs of homework adverse college students beating up or stabing instructors?
 
So you want to have a situation which could easily result in several teachers shot to death because they gave homework assignments which were too difficult for some of the armed students?
The situation you describe is extremely unlikely in part because of the fact that people don’t live ordinary lives with out any inclanation to violence or acts of unwarranted aggression and then some how flip out and star shooting with out provocation (eg homework is too hard). If someone is mentaly unstable there is usually a rash of prior incidents with escalation.

If you are aware of someone who you feel is mentaly unstable and has shown that the may go postal, you need to deal with that person directly. Trying to disarm society as a whole to prevent one unstable person from getting a weapon is complete folly. Please turn that person in or work with them to get them the help they need.

In the mean time we all recongnize that those random nut cases are out there and there is a good chance that when that 1 in a million disturbed individual does try something other law abiding citizens will be ready to stop them.
 
my two cents…

I wouldn’t dare own a gun. I’m one of those who’d be more dangerous with one. Well, maybe a nerf gun.

I really like what B. Kliban observed in one of his cartoons - he dressed this character in an inflatable birdie tube, mismatched neon plaids and stripes, strange and frightening shoewear, and this hat with a will of its own…then in the caption beneath the cartoon he observed ā€œnature’s way of telling others to STAY AWAY.ā€

Then I read Gavin de Becker’s The Gift of Fear once a year.

I think having a gun is asking for a fight unless one’s in the armed forces or the police dept.

just my opinion…thanks for the topic…
Outside of some philosophical theorising, no one is advocating every has to carry a gun. I know poeple who do not have the mental capacity or training to handle a weapon. And for the most part many of us can avoid situations which would warrant carrying a weapon. (like going to lunch at Luby’s) However, some situations are unavoidable. That is why we all need access to weapons so we can carry them when we feel the situation warrants it.
 
So you want to have a situation which could easily result in several teachers shot to death because they gave homework assignments which were too difficult for some of the armed students?
If there was really a threat of having almost an entire classroom filled with students ticked off enough to shoot professors if they had a gun, then they would have been bludgeoning them to death already for decades.
 
Israel and Switzerland have high gun ownership with open carry being the norm. With low crime rates to boot.
That is very true. Also, the same for places like the Czech Republic, Norway, Finland, and New Zealand, who also have high rates of firearms ownership and low overall rates of gun crime. The position that a high proliferation of firearms will lead to high rates of gun crime is absurd and leaves out the key factor - human behavior.

Perhaps in gang-ridden, violence-glorifying, ā€œgangstaā€ America more guns would lead to more gun crimes (and only then in the communities that are awash with human trash who glorify criminal violence), but not in places where decent people promote decent morals and know that murder is wrong and that despite the half-dozen hunting rifles and handguns in their homes they do not use those guns to murder others.

Human beings are the problem, and the rotten cultures they create, not inanimate objects that have no will or power of their own.
 
If there was really a threat of having almost an entire classroom filled with students ticked off enough to shoot professors if they had a gun, then they would have been bludgeoning them to death already for decades.
No, becasue these type of weapons are not allowed in the classroom.
 
No, becasue these type of weapons are not allowed in the classroom.
Your right our class rooms had the seats outside and you just stuck your head in the window so that the teachers who assigned too much homework were safe from students bludgeoning them with their fists. The also had teleports to allow the teachers to safely to get home with out going on the roads or parking lots. :rolleyes:
 
Your right our class rooms had the seats outside and you just stuck your head in the window so that the teachers who assigned too much homework were safe from students bludgeoning them with their fists. The also had teleports to allow the teachers to safely to get home with out going on the roads or parking lots. :rolleyes:
Yes, you are right in this instance, I agree with you fully. This is as it should be everywhere, and especially we should take steps to prevent students from carrying loaded weapons in the classroom. This is basically for the protection of the teacher and administrators who as we have seen in the recent news reports have been targets of assault.
 
Yes, you are right in this instance, I agree with you fully. This is as it should be everywhere, and especially we should take steps to prevent students from carrying loaded weapons in the classroom. This is basically for the protection of the teacher and administrators who as we have seen in the recent news reports have been targets of assault.
Maybe we can have them broadcast their lectures over a secure data line from secret underground bunkers. We should also do the backlit screen and distorted voice to hide their identities so the presumed homicidal students can’t track them down.:rolleyes:
 
Maybe we can have them broadcast their lectures over a secure data line from secret underground bunkers. We should also do the backlit screen and distorted voice to hide their identities so the presumed homicidal students can’t track them down.:rolleyes:
Yes. Either that or not have students take loaded guns to campus. When students take these loaded weapons to campus, it can only mean trouble.
 
Yawn.:yawn:
Yes. Well, some of us are very much concerned with the safety of our teachers and administrators in schools, as we have read about the terrible tragedies and harm that come to those wonderful teachers and brave administrators. But it unfortunately appears from the response given above, that there are those who are too bored to give a thought to this serious problem which has hurt so many decent families across the United States.
 
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