Parkland

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sounds good to me

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[spacemonkey]

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Yeah. The armed security pussed out. I guess we better give a loaded weapon to a schoolteacher so she/he can go blazing away in a room full of children?

What's the worst that could happen?

Honestly, I feel like people have a very Hollywood view of this thing. Some sort of unrealistic expectation of blockbuster-style precision handgun fire (from a teacher!) as opposed to terrified panic fire hitting god knows what and whom. Which is mostly what you get even from law enforcement who are supposed to know better. You know when those clowns empty a couple of 18 round magazines through a 9mm Glock and hit f**k all it's because they were aiming properly, as trained.

Maybe you have a vision in your head of a calm, collected, bespectacled teacher standing there stoically, instantly picking out the threat and pulling a pistol from her fashionable designer shoulder rig and blowing that child away (usually these shooters are under 18 folks) and dropping a John McClane style one-liner as the grey matter paints the rack of textbooks. Maybe this teacher even does a slow-motion walk down the hallway as the music swells and the wise old janitor smiles in approval.

Oh. Wait. No. Actually the terrified teacher just panic blasted a couple of extra students through the adrenaline and tears and pissed themselves. Because real life, spacemonkey.