I hate click-baity headlines. I refuse to click them. I won’t be manipulated by your tricks.
We’re not going to break down every moment from the CNN anti-gun town hall, but I do want to share one moment just to prove that no one really wants to change their mind on anything ever.
This clip was tweeted by someone from the Center for American Progress, afar left group. He tweeted, “Florida history teacher schools @NRA’s @DLoesch on the 2nd amendment. It’s amazing.”
Okay, so let’s watch this schooling. Make note of the teacher’s posture. She has a scowl. Her chin is up and chest out. She has an aggressive posture when she asks this not-genuine question (Starts at 1:15:34)
The question is: “Using supporting evidence” what is your definition of a well-regulated militia? The anti-gun guy and everyone in that audience and every anti-gun person watching thought just that QUESTION was a SCHOOLING; the question was a SMACK DOWN, an OBLITERATION, an EPIC TAKEDOWN.
They didn’t want to hear Dana’s answer. They didn’t hear Dana say essentially ”Well, it’ s not my definition. It’s the definition of our founders who wrote it. Geroge Mason said ‘I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people,'”
I mean this objectively as possible; if anyone did any schooling, it was Dana schooling the teacher. But I think a more appropriate headline would be, “NRA representative accurately answers teachers question.”
But that’s not enough drama. Someone always has to be SCHOOLING SOMEONE.
But my main analysis here is about human nature. We don’t want to change our minds.
How can you watch that clip and think the TEACHER schooled Dana? The teacher asked a question, Dana answered it. You may not like the answer, but…it was an answer.
People only see and hear and say things in order to prove themselves right. we all do it!
Final point on gun contorl. Let’s avoid this “logic”:
1. Something must be done
2. This is something
3. Therefore we must do this
So how do you change someone’s mind? I wrote a book about it.
No one is proposing that we forcibly arm all teaches.
You can be agasint having any teaches carry a gun. That’s a fine opinion to have, but let’s agree on the actual proposal. The proposal is: If a teacher WANTS to carry a concealed weapon, they would be allowed to.
The debate is begin framed as if the government is going to FORCE every teacher to carry a gun.
“Let’s do some math: There are about 100,000 public schools in the U.S. and 3.2 million teachers. If you armed all 3.2 million teachers in all those schools, how many accidents would occur? How many deaths and injuries would result from those accidents?…
So, your math question, class: Would the introduction of 3.2 million guns into schools *prevent* more death and injury, or would it introduce a potentionally deadly and injurious new element into them?”
Paul, no one is proposing what you’re arguing against.
Again, you can be against having any teachers carry a gun in school, but don’t make stuff up to be agasint.
I was with some law enforcement friends the other day. One of them was eating Chipotle and another guy said, “You know they have a law enforcement disount.” He responded, “Ya, but you have a show of force.”
I asked what that means.
“You have to be in uniform and guns showing to get the discount.”
Meaning, the discount isn’t so much to “support our first responders”. It’s to get more police officers in the restaurant.
Free security.
It’s good for business to have police officers wandering in and out all the time.
It’s a deterrent.
That’s all this woudl be with maybe a few teachers choosing to carry guns. Someone wrote on my Facebook page that thier daughter’s teacher is a Marine. Why should he not be allowed to carry if he wants?
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I have pretty much zero concern that my kids will ever be involved in a school shooting.
Every year there are about fifty school shootings (and some of those are just shootings that take place near a school) There are 100,000 public schools in America. There are 25,000 high schools in America, so that’s .2% of all high schools will have a school shooting.
We could break that down even more, but you get the idea. I am not worried about my kids ever being killed, injured or even witnessing a school shooting. I know that’s what all of the parents of Parkland, Florida and other schools say, I totally get it.
But let me tell you about what I am concerned about,
I am concerned with my kids going to a school full of daily violence and constant lawlessness, chaos and disrespect.
We focus on the school shootings because they’re shocking and acute and severe. But the constant chaos in our schools everywhere and every day doesn’t make headlines. Madison, Wisconsin: police were called to three high schools in the same district on the same day, in the same hour. School police officers needed to call for backup at three schools within 24 minutes of each other!
A parent wrote to the principal of one of those schools about how it’s just chaos everyday. Why don’t they do something!
And it’s because of Restorative Justice.We’ve talked about this in the previous posts, but the premise is: because more minority kids were getting disciplined than white kids in high schools, there’s a disparate impact. So now no one gets disciplined anymore and it’s game on in the classrooms. Kids know they can get away with anything and they continue to push the limits, knowing they’re untouchable.
So this one parent says “the district is bending over to not ‘offend’ the offenders.”
He talked about how it started off as a few violent kids, but it’s just growing every day because they all know they won’t get in trouble. It’s just Lord Of The Flies, and the kids who do want to learn, they’re at the mercy of the tyranny of the few who are violent and disruptive. Not only that, but the trouble-makers are coddled and protected because they’re so violent and disruptive. It’s completely backward.
We had a teacher call in to my radio show, and talked about how this Restorative Justice in her school has affected her and how she can’t discipline any misbehaving kids. The principal told her that if this kid acts up again, remove all of the other kids from the classroom. Do you see how insane that is? If my kid was in that classroom and he was penalized for some other kid’s misbehavior, I’d be furious. And they do this because they know that the teachers won’t ever discipline them. So it’s just game on and everyone’s penalized because of it.
These kids clearly have no discipline at home, or any family at home, and there’s no middle ground (as the president said last week in his speech) between school and prison. And no school is willing to expel, suspend or discipline in any way, everyone and all the other kids are victimized and punished because of it.
So I’m way more concerned about this than a school shooting.
If I may, this is why I get frustrated, it’s just my personality, it’s just my way of looking at problems, but I get frustrated when people propose things that are on the surface. I hate that we have to talk about metal detectors and armed security guards at every school. I don’t want my kids going to a prison everyday!
I get it. It would stop school shootings, but what the heck is wrong with us that this is even necessary!
We got to get to the root issues here so we don’t need metal detectors or armed teachers. We do these things in the meantime, I’m not against them per se, I just hate that it’s necessary.
It’s because of the breakdown of the family, No discipline. No Dads properly directing boys into men. And here we are. It’s pretty awful.
Not just the school shootings, but everyday in our schools.
I’d love hear your experience. Parents, teachers, please share in the comments your examples of breakdown of values and expectations and the chaos that you experience everyday. Everyone needs to hear the truth. We need to know what you’ve experienced.
