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To: i-node who wrote (57654)	2/23/2018 10:41:25 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 362050

Think about the teachers you had in school - then think of them having a gun in their desk. If that doesn't give you a laugh you have no sense of humor. Give the tiny number of teachers who could have a gun and use it in a positive way - I'm okay with that. But almost all teachers will be more dangerous in the school with access to a gun than any prevention. It's a crazy idea only meant to deflect the discussion. The armed man at the school in the last shooting never entered the building. Probably had pissed his pants already. He has since quit. You need an Alpha male guy who knows not only guns - but has the even temper and good judgement to be helpful in such a situation. The NRA, Trump and You are so wrong on this - all living in a fantasy world where you face down the shooter in a hale of bullets and stop the attack in its tracks. Only in your wet dreams in the middle of night!

To: i-node who wrote (57654)	2/23/2018 10:46:22 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362050

Please don't try to apply normal bureaucratic solutions to this most nonlinear of situations I am not doing that. I'm being informed by it. You don't mix apples and oranges in an organizational box or an individual job description for good reason and that good reason applies here. Some work has a certain bent, other work, a different bent. You can't expect a teacher in apple mode to switch to orange mode on a dime when a threat is perceived and to be effective at it. Not that a few would not have the ability and presence of mind to do it, but you can't reasonably design a solution around that ability. Even trained and practiced responders who are actively on the lookout have trouble efficiently shifting from eating a donut to action mode.