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My family was invited by my mother and father in law for a dinner on Saturday night, and my father in law has a daughter who is a high school teacher in Orange County, CA. (This teacher is ultra liberal) I asked her if any of her students missed school due to the protests. She told me that a student at her school had attended the high school in Parkland Florida where the shooting occurred. Its amazing how liberals have to show their connection to a tragedy. I assume it is because they have such low self esteem, that they need some type of attention.
She then started talking about her duties as a teacher in the event of a school shooting. Her duties have her locking doors leading to a school hallway, and they have 3-4 drills per school year. To hear her talk of her duties, you would be lead to believe every drill she participated in was an active shooting incident. She went on to describe the horror of possibly having to lock a student out. I then interjected and said, “It all depends on where the shooter is located. If he is outside, then locking the doors may be an effective counter measure, but if he is already inside the school, you are preventing students from escaping.” She then had a deer in the headlight look. She had never given that scenario any thought.
She then transitioned the discussion to her objection to arming teachers, and then a brother in law interjected, and said “Teachers have too much to do, and they should not be required to be armed.” (This brother in law was not raised in the US, and he is a liberal beta male) I spoke up and said, “I have never heard of any plan that requires teachers to be armed. I have heard of plans where a teacher can voluntarily participate in being armed. I don’t believe arming every teacher is a good idea, such a plan should be limited to those who want to be armed and who will participate in training and meet certain standards before being armed. There are veterans and others who already possess the basic firearm skills needed to begin implementing the plan."
The brother in law then gets animated and raised his voice and said, “Americans think they have a right to own guns.” I responded by saying, “You are correct, we do have a right to own firearms.” He then said, “Guns should be regulated and the Second Amendment only applies to a militia.” I told him, if guns should be regulated, how to you explain the number of people shot in Chicago, where guns are practically banned.” He said, “Because they are Americans.” (BTW, this brother in law hates America, but he elects to live here.) I also explained that the term militia at the time the constitution was written meant able bodied men capable of providing a defense, and that the U.S. Supreme Court had already dispensed with that liberal talking point by declaring the Second Amendment to be an individual right.
The brother in law then tried to say that every country that has gun control has a lower death rate than the United States. I asked him to explain how Mexico, where guns have been banned for decades has two to three times the murders than the United States. At this point he short circuited, and began making contorted facial gestures and waving his hands wildly. I asked him, “Why are you being so dismissive?” He then exclaimed, “Everyone knows citizens should not have guns.” This is where I went in for the kill, this brother in law is half German and half Japanese, and I said, “Hitler disarmed Germany and look what that created, and Japan committed genocide in Nanking, China, and don’t over look that the citizens in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Armenia and Rwanda were also disarmed and then murdered.
She then started talking about her duties as a teacher in the event of a school shooting. Her duties have her locking doors leading to a school hallway, and they have 3-4 drills per school year. To hear her talk of her duties, you would be lead to believe every drill she participated in was an active shooting incident. She went on to describe the horror of possibly having to lock a student out. I then interjected and said, “It all depends on where the shooter is located. If he is outside, then locking the doors may be an effective counter measure, but if he is already inside the school, you are preventing students from escaping.” She then had a deer in the headlight look. She had never given that scenario any thought.
She then transitioned the discussion to her objection to arming teachers, and then a brother in law interjected, and said “Teachers have too much to do, and they should not be required to be armed.” (This brother in law was not raised in the US, and he is a liberal beta male) I spoke up and said, “I have never heard of any plan that requires teachers to be armed. I have heard of plans where a teacher can voluntarily participate in being armed. I don’t believe arming every teacher is a good idea, such a plan should be limited to those who want to be armed and who will participate in training and meet certain standards before being armed. There are veterans and others who already possess the basic firearm skills needed to begin implementing the plan."
The brother in law then gets animated and raised his voice and said, “Americans think they have a right to own guns.” I responded by saying, “You are correct, we do have a right to own firearms.” He then said, “Guns should be regulated and the Second Amendment only applies to a militia.” I told him, if guns should be regulated, how to you explain the number of people shot in Chicago, where guns are practically banned.” He said, “Because they are Americans.” (BTW, this brother in law hates America, but he elects to live here.) I also explained that the term militia at the time the constitution was written meant able bodied men capable of providing a defense, and that the U.S. Supreme Court had already dispensed with that liberal talking point by declaring the Second Amendment to be an individual right.
The brother in law then tried to say that every country that has gun control has a lower death rate than the United States. I asked him to explain how Mexico, where guns have been banned for decades has two to three times the murders than the United States. At this point he short circuited, and began making contorted facial gestures and waving his hands wildly. I asked him, “Why are you being so dismissive?” He then exclaimed, “Everyone knows citizens should not have guns.” This is where I went in for the kill, this brother in law is half German and half Japanese, and I said, “Hitler disarmed Germany and look what that created, and Japan committed genocide in Nanking, China, and don’t over look that the citizens in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Armenia and Rwanda were also disarmed and then murdered.
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