Sarcasm or Serious?

[Bailey Guns]

If this guy is being sarcastic, OK...I get it.

Unfortunately, I fear he's quite serious. What do you think?

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ed..._self_defense/

Guns, teachers, and self-defense

December 28, 2009

I am a math teacher at Brockton High School, the site of a school shooting earlier this month.

Current school security procedures lock down school populations in the event of armed assault. Some advocate abandoning this practice as it holds everyone in place, allowing a shooter easily to find victims.

An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets, it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others. Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful. A level barrel is fair to all fish.

Some propose overturning laws that made schools gun-free zones even for teachers who may be licensed to securely carry concealed firearms elsewhere. They argue that barring licensed-carry only ensures a defenseless, target-rich environment.

But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.


DOUG VAN GORDER
Quincy

[funkfool]

"...the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime."
WTF?
So, to go along the same lines...
The use of a knife (scalpel) to save a life is a knife crime??

[Irving]

So he's basically saying he'd use his kid as a human shield before he'd use a gun to neutralize a threat. Sure dude, suit yourself. I'll keep my kids behind me, thanks.

[Bailey Guns]

To be fair, Stuart, there's nothing wrong with human shields. For example, I'd be more than happy to use this knucking fucklehead as a human shield.

[Irving]

Boy do I have a video for you....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqj2AHRfSAQ

[Hawk]

In a day when too many ideas and beliefs are gravitating to far-left thinking way too quickly,
this (unfortunately) seems to be an honest "shining jewel of colossal ignorance" moment.

I feel it should be seriously noted and remembered by us who take the self-defense
aspect of our hobby and sport seriously.

Good catch, Bailey Guns.

Thanks

[TFOGGER]

A-frickin'mazing....he's a math teacher, and can't understand:

1 Armed citizen
+ 1 well placed bullet
+ 1 school shooter
= a bunch less people dying in school shootings

I personally woudl rather deal with the guilt of taking 1 life, rather than letting many die, knowing I could have stopped it. +1 on protecting the defenseless, rather than hiding behind them.

[SA Friday]

Come on now, Mass. is the pinnacle of intellegence. I mean, who WOULDN'T want all the victims equally screwed. Seriously, the only thing that matters is that it's equal. All other ideas to the contrary are just ludicris. We cannot have a society that, "unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others." That's just crazy talk... Rewarding the more intelligent and resourceful? What kind of un-politically correct shit would that be? We all have to be screwed and if someone it getting ahead of the pack, well gosh-darn-it, you better pull is ass back in line.

[Irving]

That is a tough article to understand for me. It seems like the unfair rewarding of kids who hide effectively is clearly sarcasm, but that last part isn't delivered quite the same way and leaves me wondering. I can see why you brought it up.

[Bailey Guns]

Boy do I have a video for you....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqj2AHRfSAQ

Well now that just wasn't fair. Everyone should be equally exposed to the grenade explosion.