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FL: Senate panel Oks proposal to arm teachers
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In the aftermath of the massacre at a Parkland high school that took the lives of 17 students and teachers one year ago, a state Senate panel advanced a plan on Tuesday that would arm teachers at public schools in Florida.
The proposal (SPB 7030) was approved with a 5-3 vote along party lines.
The school guardian program (under the bill) came into formation in March of 2018, a month after one of the most deadly mass shootings in Florida’s history, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. With 17 dead, and 17 severely injured, the shooting caused a national uproar, as it was also the most deadly shooting at a high school in the United States. |
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The opponents' argument fails on its face. A suicidal shooter will not be stopped by entrance screening; he will merely begin by shooting the guards at the entrance, then advance into the school unimpeded.
The real reason for these fallacious arguments is a deep-seated fear of and hatred for guns and gun owners, and a willingness to sacrifice everyone's liberty to assuage that fear. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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