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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 2689104" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>The title of the piece, "Why I Don't Want Guns in my Classroom," is a good example of the level of denial of reality we are dealing with. No matter how much you "want" something, reality is not dictated by your wants. The question is, if someone "wants" to bring a gun to your classroom, what is to stop him? And if he does so, what is to stop him from harming others? For the vast majority of colleges, it would be extremely impractical and undesirable to provide security with metal detector searches for every person who enters the campus. I suppose having an armed guard in every classroom would be one solution. Of course this would also be highly impractical from a budget standpoint, and would of course involve having guns in the author's classroom, which is what he is trying to avoid... but it seems most antis' hoplophobia is abated by the gun-wielder possessing the proper costume, badge, hat, arm band, jackboots, or other insignia of a highly trained and professional government employee. <img src="/images/smilies/rolleyes2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes2" title="Rolleyes2 :rolleyes2" data-shortname=":rolleyes2" /></p><p></p><p>Of course until these unlikely measures are actually put into place, there is literally nothing stopping anyone from carrying a gun into just about any college or university across this nation... and people like the author are frantically trying to prevent the one and only thing which could actually provide for the immediate protection of all the students and staff of these institutions -- simply respecting their right to live, and the concomitant right to possess the means to defend their life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 2689104, member: 4235"] The title of the piece, "Why I Don't Want Guns in my Classroom," is a good example of the level of denial of reality we are dealing with. No matter how much you "want" something, reality is not dictated by your wants. The question is, if someone "wants" to bring a gun to your classroom, what is to stop him? And if he does so, what is to stop him from harming others? For the vast majority of colleges, it would be extremely impractical and undesirable to provide security with metal detector searches for every person who enters the campus. I suppose having an armed guard in every classroom would be one solution. Of course this would also be highly impractical from a budget standpoint, and would of course involve having guns in the author's classroom, which is what he is trying to avoid... but it seems most antis' hoplophobia is abated by the gun-wielder possessing the proper costume, badge, hat, arm band, jackboots, or other insignia of a highly trained and professional government employee. :rolleyes2 Of course until these unlikely measures are actually put into place, there is literally nothing stopping anyone from carrying a gun into just about any college or university across this nation... and people like the author are frantically trying to prevent the one and only thing which could actually provide for the immediate protection of all the students and staff of these institutions -- simply respecting their right to live, and the concomitant right to possess the means to defend their life. [/QUOTE]
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