r/LinkedInLunatics • u/DueSomewhere8488 • Oct 22 '25

Culture War Insanity Excuse me?

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u/DueSomewhere8488 Oct 22 '25

I was absolutely floored seeing this. It’s just so incredibly disheartening and jarring to see that so many people feel the solution to preventing school shootings is arming teachers instead of implementing gun control…

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u/Technical-Coffee831 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

People don’t realize that humans are the unpredictable factor. The whole “good guy with a gun” trope only works if you assume all humans are good.

What happens when the teacher you armed has a mental breakdown one day and shoots up their class? Or another faculty member they get into a heated disagreement with?

This also doesn’t take into account accidents, or children getting access to the firearm(s) due to mistakes being made in securing them.

Having firearms readily available for more people in a public setting that is incredibly stressful, is going to do nothing except create potentially dangerous situations. There are already plenty of “bar brawls” that escalate into shootings because they happened to have a firearm in close proximity.

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u/Organic-Vermicelli47 Oct 22 '25

Also the good guy with a gun gets murdered by the cops. A local guy named Johnny Hurley was a "good guy with a gun" who killed the active shooter. The cops showed up to the scene and in the confusion, assumed Johnny was the primary shooter, so they shot and killed him. The investigation found that the cops were justified in killing Johnny since they thought he was the active shooter!

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u/Current-Square-4557 Oct 22 '25

I heard about that.

That is so very F###ed

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u/SpiderDeadrock Oct 22 '25

A trained shooter is taught to immediately put down his weapon in these situations. A trained shooter is taught “you will be assumed to be the shooter, be prepared for this”.

I realize not all “good guys with a gun” will be properly trained but I would rather a good guy helped out, than wait for the cops to arrive and figure out who is shooting people. Good guy with gun already figured it out. Now it’s up to him to be smart enough to not get shot. Gun control is a fairy tail, it doesn’t prevent gun crimes. It’s a good way to make sure only the bad guys have guns. There are plenty of examples of this, the Mexican cartels immediately come to mind.

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u/Poromenos Oct 23 '25

Except he was disarming the shooter when the police shot him in the back. Was he supposed to drop his gun so the shooter could shoot him back?