What’s stopping the same teacher from obtaining a gun and bringing it to school or carrying it in public? The same forces are allowing/preventing that from happening.
The demographic for school shooters seems to currently be young adults that are current or former students.
As an aside on Idaho’s culture/perspective on guns and liability. I’ve had coworkers express a desire to carry firearms at work in our healthcare setting, but refuse to have tourniquets available or train laypeople with them citing liability for their potential misuse.
I lean toward training...
It reads like a Good Samaritan clause. If you screw up by doing something outside of your training or certification things could be bad liability wise. And we’ve agreed the certification isn’t much. I’d hope there were more formal trainings for this stuff even if they aren’t required.
On the criminal liability front, this conviction seems relevant. Seems like a lack of weapon retention in a school would carry a similar risk.
Jury finds Jennifer Crumbley, the Michigan school shooter’s mother, guilty of manslaughter
I removed the civilian on civilian. I was thinking more of the general public in a public setting other than a school. And thought about clarifying but didn’t want to derail the thread away from school employees in school.
Yep. And I’ve had parents verbalize that they came to Idaho in order to escape to a place where they were held less accountable and scrutinized less by protective services. (I’m saying this while acknowledging Idaho is much safer than other states). And typically the biggest problems from...
And on the mental/behavioral healthcare side I feel like our hands are equally tied. Especially with juveniles.
The most frustrating part of that article seems to be this idea that increasing prevention and treatment is mutually exclusive of changing our response resources and planning for...
This just makes it seem like an emotional argument to me.
If we’re talking about the presence of guns in “gun free zones”, and how they make us feel, the only relevant experiences I’ve had are in the hospital with gang members guarding their buddy 24 x 7 after they’ve been shot. And I have...