[Diamond]

I didn't hear the pbs shows but I made this exact same point about armed Israeli teachers yesterday morning at breakfast with a few friends of mine, one of whom is an atheist lefty, criminal defense attorney. He really is a good friend, though.

He's the one who brought up the subject by endorsing renewal of the assault weapons ban. The conversation then got very lively, thanks to me. His rebuttal of the practice of arming teachers were; that Costa Rica does not have the level of violence that we do, that Chistopher Columbus was a mass murderer, that the Constitution did not contemplate the technological advances in contemporary weaponry so it is permissible to pass laws that ban certain weapons, that ours is a violent society, and that arming teachers would just escalate the violence, meaning that criminals would just start using bombs instead of guns.

Needless to say, I didn't convince him.

Cordially,

[SeminoleCounty]

Your friend who brought up “Costa Rica does not have the level of violence we (US) do” was totally wrong. Costa Rica is having major crime problems, just like the rest of Latin America. Just ask any American who has visited there in recent years