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To: cosmicforce who wrote (212027)	12/18/2012 11:50:39 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541119

Cosmicforce, re: "I think the skills to be a teacher or educational administrator are different than those of law enforcement. I don't think you can effectively cross-train them with a rare exception." I'd agree that you couldn't effectively train most teachers or administrators to the level of law enforcement officers. Years ago, however, I bought my first motorcycle after never having ridden one. I was riding with some guys who were much better riders than I was and they were racing dirt bikes. I started racing too and very quickly started winning. I wasn't a better rider. They could do things on bikes that I have never been able to do (and sometimes had to ride my bike out of places I couldn't ride it out of...humiliating) but racing didn't require all those skills, just the skill of power sliding, shifting weight, and feeling the edge. The simple act of self defending your school with a weapon is like that, I suspect. You don't need the entire set of skills, simply the ability to handle a weapon reasonably well and the judgement to know when. When we had the draft we pulled a lot of "non law enforcement" types into using deadly weapons and most of them could do the job reasonably well. I do, however, see some of the problems you may be suggesting. I'd think the greater issue is not whether someone would improperly access the protective weapon or whether they could develop the skills to use it but rather whether someone would access and use the weapon too quickly. Ed