Lately the gun lobby’s mantra has been “We need more guns, not less.”
Shooting in a grade school? Arm the teachers.
Shooting on college campus? Allow more legal guns on more campus’s.
Shooting in shopping center or movie theater? Make concealed carry easier.
As @Apparently_Im_The_Grumpy_One points out, the absurdity of this approach comes out when people with no legal access to guns are shooting people with no legal access to guns. In this case children shooting children in cold blood.
@majorrich, if I may:
“Why is it that everything has to be the most asenine extreme when people rant about who should have firearms. It would be not only illegal, but immoral to arm _anyone before they understand the responsibility that comes with bearing an implement of death.“_
The first hurdle to allowing open access to police academies ‘shoot, don’t shoot’ programs is funding. The second hurdle would be the realization that nut jobs were completing the training in order to better ambush police and make their real-life death-wish games all that more realistic.
I don’t find the notion of arming teens and pre-teens any more or less absurd than arming kindergarten teachers.