The guy who says his Vietnam service(sic) was unprotected sex in the 1970s really loves the gunfight hypothetical of the “good guy with the gun” for instances of self-defense using deadly force.
And there’s a tweet for everything
More importantly, even with a full-out gunfight, will enough k-12 teacher training compensate for collateral damage, much like the person at Parkland who thought throwing a kevlar sheet over huddled kids would protect kids from high-velocity rifle rounds. Perhaps a significantly armored door might have helped at least one kid at Parkland, who took five rounds through a classroom door. But what climate do you have in a classroom if teachers have to wear ballistic vests.
And hardening “soft targets” and adding more surveillance plus armed drones … what an atmosphere of learning … because school lock-downs surely don’t resemble prison lock-downs because surely you wouldn’t want to think they have a resemblance ...
Oh wait, allow more homeschooling so the family’s home defense can bear the liability, Betsy DeVos will make a bundle from that.
Those who might have actually experienced assault might be able to better share insights, since Close Quarter Battle hypotheticals for school defense ignores the fundamental problems of firearms policy: possession, access, ownership, purchasing are not identical. And everybody wants a stake in the Consitutionality.
Trump himself has a concealed carry permit, but would you allow him to handle a firearm to protect anything, even himself.
Some NRA claims rely on “threatening” to return fire but not pulling the trigger as making the “good guy” argument, but in more than one case, the good guy shot the assailant in the back. Because it’s OK when cops do it, especially without video documentation, because that’s how you attain custodial control over a suspect.
In one NRA case touted as a “good guy” case, the assailant was breaking into a building, but he was “confronted” by that “good guy” having known that the perp tried to rob the same place the night before. Even if the fatality did have some satisfaction since he was the neighborhood mugger, he didn’t deserve to die with an entire magazine unloaded into him, half into his back as he fled.