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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Ok, but exactly the same can be said to the contrary... the estimate of how many gunmen will get shot by teachers can only be a positive number.
What do you suppose is more frequent? Gun accidents (relating to trained people whose job it is to protect children)? Or school shootings?
Further, which do you suppose has the higher average death count?
It should be obvious that the lives saved by arming teachers will be significantly higher than any deaths caused by accidents, which will probably be something like one death a decade.
My sample size is not small. Ok there's only a handful of security guards at the Whitehouse, but you can take that further, you don't have to assume literally just the Whitehouse.
How many trained armed personnel accidentally shoot and kill people? Give me a yearly figure.
You're still insisting on solving the equation as if eliminating or reducing school shootings is the only goal; and if that's the case then I agree, arming teachers will lead to fewer school mass shootings and fewer deaths from school mass shootings.
My argument is that the problems with gun deaths in the US aren't restricted to school mass shootings and that your solution will have the net effect of increasing deaths from guns overall by moving the mass shootings to other places and causing an increase in accidental shootings.
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