One of our nieces is a middle-school math teacher, and for years we’ve sent her a gift card as the Fall semester approaches to help ease the indecency of poorly-paid teachers being required to buy classroom supplies. What do you know? If the Loony-in-Chief has his way, it appears we’ll be adding a box of hollow-points to the annual package.
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday during a listening session with survivors and family members of school shootings that arming teachers could be one solution to stopping tragedy.
“An attack has lasted, on average, about three minutes. It takes 5 to 8 minutes for responders, for police to come in. If you had a teacher who is adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly,” Trump said at the event, flanked by two teenage girls who survived the school shooting last week in Parkland, Florida. “The good thing about that …. you will have a lot of people that would be armed, that would be ready.”
No, Donald. You are an idiot. What will happen is that ambitious young mass-killers will take care to shoot the teacher first.
Or walk across the street and shoot-up a McDonald’s or Day Care center, instead.
Failing that, what happens when a jittery SWAT team with an adrenaline-rush swarms into a school in response to a report of a shooting and spots a teacher with blood all over her clothing and face?
Seriously: This idea is even dumber than the Reagan administration notion that ketchup should be counted as a vegetable course in school lunches.