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Allowing teachers to carry guns in school will only put Black children in harm’s way
TheGrio ^ | MAY 7, 2024 | JANEL GEORGE

Posted on 05/07/2024 7:16:31 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

A generation of this nation’s students have grown into adulthood with their school years shaped by active shooter drills and police in schools. Lawmakers just cannot — or will not — take the necessary action to stymie the school shootings that have marred the education landscape for decades.

This political impotence has recently been exemplified in Tennessee, where, barely a year after the state’s deadliest shooting at Covenant School in Nashville claimed the lives of three adults and three nine-year-olds, some of the state’s conservative lawmakers passed a bill that will allow teachers and staff to carry concealed weapons. The bill passed with an overwhelming vote and was just signed into law by Governor Bill Lee, despite the pleas of protestors, including a Covenant School mom who delivered a letter with over 5,300 signatures, including from parents and medical professionals urging the measure’s defeat.

The bill’s proponents argue that it will help to fill gaps in school security where there is limited law enforcement presence, particularly in rural areas, and that requiring annual training, background screenings and conditioning applications on the approval of school principals and local law enforcement will address concerns about arming teachers.

However, giving teachers guns will not make schools safer.

Just as unarmed Black people are disproportionately victimized by police in communities, Black children are endangered by Tennessee’s law. Black children are already disproportionately subjected to overly punitive discipline.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: armedteachers; arth; banglist; education; protectingschools; racism; schoolsafety
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To: mabarker1

What a mean grandma .


21 posted on 05/07/2024 8:04:32 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

Wonder what the legal view of carrying a Burna Projectile Launcher — the fully legal in all 50 states, no license required, no background check needed, not a firearm under federal law . . . Just wondering. Open or closed carry. I have no! connection with Burna. Only knowledge of . . . .


22 posted on 05/07/2024 8:11:44 PM PDT by Freeper (My authority? I can read, do logic and math plus words have meanings!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Janel George sounds like she/he’s one racist biatch. She needs to read up on the news. It’s blacks who are killing black kids. Check it out. Biatch.


23 posted on 05/07/2024 8:57:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

OFFS!


24 posted on 05/07/2024 9:02:43 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

A headline like that tells you right there don’t waste time reading an idiotic article.


25 posted on 05/07/2024 11:04:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: reasonisfaith

Certain groups commit more crime than others, not due to skin color, but due to white racist Democrats destroying their families, ignoring criminal behavior and promoting the worship of the gangster mentality.

This is affecting many other groups as well.


27 posted on 05/08/2024 2:46:11 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Black children are already disproportionately subjected to overly punitive discipline.

Perhaps it is because it is black children who most beat up teachers, beat up other weaker white children and are a much bigger discipline problem.

28 posted on 05/08/2024 3:01:18 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Which demographic has the highest chance of getting in an altercation with a teacher? 🤔
Which demographic has the greatest chances of having a gun in school?

No one needs their “research” to know these answers.

This does indeed leave a certain demographic with a higher risk…. But its a risk theyve brought upon themselves. The culture embraces violence as means to an end….. this is not new.


29 posted on 05/08/2024 3:14:49 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Leaning Right

Bring back the revolver with the magnetic ring.


30 posted on 05/08/2024 3:31:46 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’m comfortable with that.


31 posted on 05/08/2024 3:31:49 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The only way black children will be put in harm’s way is if blacks are the ones doing the shootings.


32 posted on 05/08/2024 4:16:02 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

do the lawmakers place their children in the schools that are the subject of debate?

heaven forbid!


33 posted on 05/08/2024 4:24:56 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Leaning Right
It would be far too easy for a couple of punks to disarm such a teacher in a crowded, elbow-to-albow hallway. Then what?

Those "punks" wouldn't need to bother taking a gun off of a teacher. They can get guns already.

34 posted on 05/08/2024 5:04:25 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: reasonisfaith

BKDM


35 posted on 05/08/2024 5:08:33 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Mears

🤪


36 posted on 05/08/2024 6:40:57 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; ...

RKBA Ping List


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FReepmail me if you want to be added to or deleted from this Ping List.

More 2nd Amendment related articles on FR's Bang List.

37 posted on 05/08/2024 7:10:16 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AbolishCSEU; AccountantMom; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

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Like they aren't already?

If schools are so dangerous that teachers need to carry and armed security is required, why the heck are people sending their kids to them??????????

It isn't like homeschooling is unknown to the general public.

38 posted on 05/08/2024 7:21:36 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

39 posted on 05/08/2024 8:47:10 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Just as unarmed Black people are disproportionately victimized by police in communities, Black children are endangered by Tennessee’s law. Black children are already disproportionately subjected to overly punitive discipline.

Not to mention that Black New York kids don't know what a computer is, sheesh, NY public schools must really be bad.

40 posted on 05/08/2024 8:49:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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