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NH: Guns in schools: No-win situation
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Mark A. Taff
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It's the law, but that doesn't make it sensible:
If you have a license to carry a concealed weapon, you can legally bring it into a school.
The theory behind this law is ... what? That an armed citizen just might happen to be in a school when some idiot decides to shoot it up? And then that armed citizen, surely knowing the proper way to handle the weapon and to deal with an armed idiot, will gun down that armed idiot before he, or she, can kill an innocent person or more? |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(12/31/2016)
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" ...And then that armed citizen, surely knowing the proper way to handle the weapon and to deal with an armed idiot, will gun down that armed idiot before he, or she, can kill an innocent person or more?"
Surprisingly for this author, armed people HAVE indeed stopped some of those school shootings in the past, so I guess they actually DID know how to use their gun (SHOCKING!!!!) and deal with an armed idiot shooter (EVEN SHOCKIER!!!!!).
And, how about the idea that one does not give up the right to one's own self-defense simply by walking into a school? |
| Comment by:
Sosalty
(1/1/2017)
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| Proper training for school staff to carry is doable. It mainly would serve as a preventative and thus a "win - win." Theory? Deranged mass shooters only target those schools unprepared for the evil they wish to inflict. |
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