Not true; they need to be SAFE speed bumps, not opening fire at any provocation or none. They need to know how to clean and maintain their weapon so it fires when required—and NO other time. Remember when you were educating Sprite about shoulder holsters and thumb breaks? Since that was how you suggested teachers prevent someone grabbing their gun, is it not logical to think any teachers carrying a gun at school should know about them?

Correias argument here is that his career is superfluous: Even HE does not believe it, so why should anyone else?


No one not already convinced thinks this a slamdunk argument. I mean, seriously, make state law superior to federal law so guns become common and widespread in schools? Do you HONESTLY think people outraged by school shootings will support that?


No reason at all; I fully support all such peopls having any gun they can afford. Correia is arguing against gun control by saying, "21 year olds who pass a background check and get weapons training should be able to have one." That IS gun control, and Correia is GREATLY misrepresenting gun control to suggest otherwise.

I do agree with him on one point though:
I could not have said it better.

Now let us consider his series of examples:

This is a good argument against gun free zones, but a poor one for universal untrained access to guns.

UT: Shooter killed by a COP (e.g. a screened, trained and certified adult gun user.)

OR: Shooter "confronted by a permit holder" (e.g. a screened, trained and certified adult gun user.) Shooter (NOT permit holder) shot himself.

TX: Shooter killed by a COP (e.g. a screened, trained and certified adult gun user.)

CT: Shooter commits suicide after arrival of COPS (e.g. a screened, trained and certified adult gun users.)

China: This PERFECTLY illustrates why neither the pro NOR anti-gun lunatic fringe dictate the debate, because BOTH sides selectively use it to "prove" them right.

Radical pro-gun people: Chinese nutjob stabbed 22 schoolkids despite a total gun ban, therefore gun bans are useless.

Radical anti-gun people: Chinese nutjob stabbed 22 schoolkids but all survived thanks to a total gun ban, therefore gun bans are foolproof.

Rational people: Chinas gun ban prevented any fatalities but ALSO prevented sane, law-abiding and trained teachers/on-site cops aborting the attack.

It SHOULD be obvious that neither universally allowing NOR banning guns is ideal. And it is—to everyone not convinced one or the other is the "only solution."


Your response both mirros and explains my reaction to Correias article: His fellow pro-gun radicals act like IT is "a profound rebuttal" because they already agreed with him. The rest of us remain unimpressed, because Correias article is only "convincing" to those ALREADY convinced his arguments are valid.