Posted on 02/23/2018 5:58:37 AM PST by davikkm
Elie Mystal, a lawyer, Harvard graduate, and editor at the popular “Above the Law” legal blog, has written a column suggesting that proposals to arm teachers in public schools will lead to black students being murdered. In his post, “You Realize Arming Teachers Is Going To Lead To Black Students Getting Murdered By Their Teacher, Right?”, Mystal not only dismisses the idea of arming teachers as an ineffective way to prevent mass shootings, but also argues that the inherent racial prejudices of teachers will lead to tragic results:
[T]here’s one more problem that I’m sure most white people haven’t thought about yet: arming American teachers will directly result in students of color being shot to death at school.
I know that because the only other group of public employees that is armed at the behest of the state shoots unarmed people of color on the reg. The cops actually receive extensive training on how to use their firearms, how to asses threats, and how to deescalate situations, and yet they still murder innocent civilians all the time.
Giving a teacher a gun is ASKING them to be afraid. It makes poor judgment a homicidal offense. And that danger will be borne by black and brown students. The students who make teachers “afraid” just by their very existence.
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America is entirely too racist to arm teachers. Our legal system is INCAPABLE of holding public employees to account for murdering minorities. Black and brown students should not have to die because disgruntled white boys are shooting up their schools.
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Harvard graduate doesn’t impress me any more. She needs to learn the definition of murder.
Murder is without justification...I’m sure when a teacher shoots a student it will be justified and that is called killing NOT murder AND it won’t have anything to do with the color of their skin..
Where’s the “Not this shit again guy...”..?
Remember how bad it was for blacks back before schools were gun free? Regular blood bath for blacks.
It’s not murder if the perp has the intent to murder your self or a third party.
Easy, peasy. Just arm black teachers.
Well, then we need to disarm police, too, since the affirmative action class claims they’re being murdered by cops.
White liberal racists really hate blacks.
They value white lives more than black lives.
That’s why they look down on armed school teachers.
The students who make teachers “afraid” just by their very existence. ................................. AND ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOR!!!
Seems to me this allegation is itself rayciss.
Arming teachers will harm Democrat gun control agenda.
Fixed.
She is correct and in her case it appears that she is the one projecting her racial animosity. It's interesting, and sad, how she paints all white people with the same brush. I say "arm the teachers" and lets see how this plays out.
In the wake of last weeks Florida shooting, I was expecting the same tired old arguments from both the left and right - and, of course, I wasn't disappointed.
However, it seems (thanks to DJT) a rarely discussed argument has been introduced - arming teachers or other personnel to secure the schools.
Of course, it makes total sense, and I have to believe it is resonating with much of the public.
And, as is the case with so many other issues the president has addressed, it's put the left in a defensive posture. Having rarely been there, it's something they don't deal with very well.
Prejudices like not being told GFY, threatened, faced with constant insolence et al. Frankly I don't know how some teachers do it. I admit I grew up in an authoritarian atmosphere both at home and in school and frankly I believe it worked well. Today the pendulum has swung so far in the opposite direction to make teaching more like being a caretaker in a zoo than a provider of knowledge and facilitator to learning.
When a yute is beating you ....
I'd take a Captain Picard facepalm
The NAACP already has blood on its hands in the Florida shooting.
They are the ones who demanded the 2013 policy change that PROHIBITED school officials from reporting the shooter’s threatening behavior to police.
They say they were concerned about the “school to prison” path for minority students.
How about working on policies to change the behavior of the trouble makers?
Maybe inner city schools would be better off if the thug students don’t know which teachers have concealed carry. Elie should get off his arse and go do a study, get back to us.
Guy goes to Harvard yet doesn’t think of that.
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