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GreenLantern2814 · 05-26-2022, 02:37 PM

I am fully aware that this is a stupid ass solution that will likely cause deaths it doesn’t intend to, but the teachers need to be armed.

I’m sorry, but they do. I know the arguments against it. I don’t disagree with a single one of them.

But you don’t always get to choose the world you live in. If you’re an American teacher, you inhabit a world where kids get murdered by guns at your job with repulsive regularity.

Nobody is coming to save you. Not from the state house, not from Washington.

It’s not right, it’s not fair. And yet, there’s still the problem of the teenager with a machine gun roaming the hallways.

So get strapped. Do you want to protect these kids or not?

If I were an American teacher, I wouldn’t want to be unarmed. I wouldn’t want to huddle in the dark with a bunch of terrified pre-pubescents praying to God that none of them scream or cry, and that the door doesn’t open.

If I were an American teacher, I’d want to protect the children in my room. I’d want to look down the barrel of something at the ####wit who came to murder my kids and say “you first”.

Teachers always want to tell you what heroes they are, and no doubt many teachers have performed incredibly brave acts during the course of these attacks. But sometimes being heroic means doing things you don’t want to do for the greater good.

I get that you don’t WANT to carry a gun as a teacher, but if someone attacks your school, you’re literally the only person standing between 20 kids and the afterlife.

So grow up.

“Cell was right - you think you’re better than everyone else. But there you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles into blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you will be that you stuck true to your guns. You were a coward, to your last whimper. Of fear and love, I fear not that I will die, but that all that I have come to love - the birds, and the things that are not birds - will perish with me.”

05-26-2022, 02:37 PM	#1331
GreenLantern2814 Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2011 Exp:	I am fully aware that this is a stupid ass solution that will likely cause deaths it doesn’t intend to, but the teachers need to be armed. I’m sorry, but they do. I know the arguments against it. I don’t disagree with a single one of them. But you don’t always get to choose the world you live in. If you’re an American teacher, you inhabit a world where kids get murdered by guns at your job with repulsive regularity. Nobody is coming to save you. Not from the state house, not from Washington. It’s not right, it’s not fair. And yet, there’s still the problem of the teenager with a machine gun roaming the hallways. So get strapped. Do you want to protect these kids or not? If I were an American teacher, I wouldn’t want to be unarmed. I wouldn’t want to huddle in the dark with a bunch of terrified pre-pubescents praying to God that none of them scream or cry, and that the door doesn’t open. If I were an American teacher, I’d want to protect the children in my room. I’d want to look down the barrel of something at the ####wit who came to murder my kids and say “you first”. Teachers always want to tell you what heroes they are, and no doubt many teachers have performed incredibly brave acts during the course of these attacks. But sometimes being heroic means doing things you don’t want to do for the greater good. I get that you don’t WANT to carry a gun as a teacher, but if someone attacks your school, you’re literally the only person standing between 20 kids and the afterlife. So grow up. “Cell was right - you think you’re better than everyone else. But there you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles into blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you will be that you stuck true to your guns. You were a coward, to your last whimper. Of fear and love, I fear not that I will die, but that all that I have come to love - the birds, and the things that are not birds - will perish with me.”