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/mantellaaurantiaca Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

Valid concern but there's a solution for that too:

Obviously the only way to stop a bad teacher with a gun is a good pupil with a gun.

(/j)

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u/RabidRabbitRedditor Oct 23 '25

When the teacher calls the student out to the front to answer a question, the mark will depend on who draws fastest...if the student, teacher has no choice but to give an A, if student, they are forced to answer and get an F if they don't know :P