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Utah teacher shoots herself in the leg at elementary school

I am totally, 100% opposed to having guns in public schools. The odds of some kind of attack on a any given school are so astronomically remote that it simply is not worth the risk the having guns in schools--potentially accessible to students and other untrained persons. I'd bet the farm that were guns to become commonplace in schools, we'd soon be reading all sorts of stories of accidental discharges, non-lethal disputes suddenly turning lethal, teachers or administrators going all Rambo like on children, students stealing guns etc. The likelihood of such events occurring, in my opinion, are significantly higher than the likelihood of an attack.

I simply don't see it as a cost-feasible option to place armed police, or private guards, or to employ routine police patrols at schools as a general solution.

'Solving' an extremely low probability catastrophe by replacing it with a much more likely catastrophe doesn't strike me as a rational solution at all.
 
We need to fix mental healthcare as a nation/society. Until we do this thing will not decrease and we definitely have no chance of making it go away.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Maybe it was because having the cops there validated that it was a "bad" school so that is why it made you feel less safe. Like "holy crap we must be in a seriously dangerous school if they have to have cops here all the time". I think that if it were the norm everywhere it wouldn't have that affect anymore.
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the more cops i see the less safe i feel
 
jimmy eat jazz said:
I am totally, 100% opposed to having guns in public schools. The odds of some kind of attack on a any given school are so astronomically remote that it simply is not worth the risk the having guns in schools--potentially accessible to students and other untrained persons. I'd bet the farm that were guns to become commonplace in schools, we'd soon be reading all sorts of stories of accidental discharges, non-lethal disputes suddenly turning lethal, teachers or administrators going all Rambo like on children, students stealing guns etc. The likelihood of such events occurring, in my opinion, are significantly higher than the likelihood of an attack.

I simply don't see it as a cost-feasible option to place armed police, or private guards, or to employ routine police patrols at schools as a general solution.

'Solving' an extremely low probability catastrophe by replacing it with a much more likely catastrophe doesn't strike me as a rational solution at all.
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I agree
 
UGLI baby said:
I think they meant officers at the school in case the school got attacked, not that 2 officers could keep Kearns from Kearns'ing.


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Lol
 
dodo said:
I wonder if there were kids in the restroom when that happened.
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The news article said that there were not any kids around. It was before school, or something like that.

edit: Here's the quote: "The gunshot occurred a little before 9 a.m., before school started. No students were around when it occurred, Horsley said."
 
colton said:
The news article said that there were not any kids around. It was before school, or something like that.

edit: Here's the quote: "The gunshot occurred a little before 9 a.m., before school started. No students were around when it occurred, Horsley said."
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The main thing I got out of it, and what you quoted here is....

What? Elementary school doesn't start until 9am or later? How lazy is that administration?
Was always 8-8:15 for me.
 
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