Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Stossel: Armed Teachers" video.

  1. You guys are disingenuous beyond belief. There's a simple equation - more guns in a population = more gun deaths. In the month after Stoneman, three teachers were involved in gun incidents - two in class and one outside. You shoot your own argument in the foot at 4:13 when you show the alleged gun death statistics (which show a ten year average not the yearly trend). Ignoring the fact that this would have increased by 10% had you taken that statistic back just one year to include the 15 murders at Columbine in 1999. But ignoring that, according to you, there are only 11 students killed per year in school shootings, yet you are advocating flooding schools with guns. Even if only 10 percent of teachers carry guns, that will be an influx of 320,000 guns, to say nothing of TAs and temps. Even if every one of them has the best of intentions, what percentage can you be sure will remain mentally stable and in full control of their weapon at all times? In my school of 1500 students, which was a very civil school by today's standards, at least two teachers had full on mental breakdowns during my high school life. I would be disturbed to know that they were armed when that happened. Also, is every teacher trained to deal with car crashes, suicide counselling and life saving, which according to your statistics would save hundreds of times more lives.
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