Okay, so I read this thread & the linked article on Sunday. It has been kind of rolling around in my head off & on since then. I'm not going to reread it so I can find the exact quote but he said that it occurred to him that he & another person were looking at things 180 degrees from each other. I think he believes that the government can take care of him, that simply by passing laws we can take away the ability of evil people to harm us. I suspect the majority of us here do not believe that.
As far as his issues with not being able to give the teachers enough training to be able to be effective. I tend to believe that untrained people have been using firearms to defend themselves for many years & many of them have done quite a good job of it. I'm not knocking training I believe anything we can do to better prepare ourselves is good. I don't believe that a person without formal training should be written considered ineffective either.
It is almost like the difference between people in urban areas & those that live in rural areas. The people in urban areas are used to goods & services being readily available. Those that live in more rural circumstances tend know they need to take steps to take care of themselves because they are on their own. In short he is unwilling to accept the fact that there was nothing that anyone could do to stop what happened to his son.
Sorry if I rambled.
As far as his issues with not being able to give the teachers enough training to be able to be effective. I tend to believe that untrained people have been using firearms to defend themselves for many years & many of them have done quite a good job of it. I'm not knocking training I believe anything we can do to better prepare ourselves is good. I don't believe that a person without formal training should be written considered ineffective either.
It is almost like the difference between people in urban areas & those that live in rural areas. The people in urban areas are used to goods & services being readily available. Those that live in more rural circumstances tend know they need to take steps to take care of themselves because they are on their own. In short he is unwilling to accept the fact that there was nothing that anyone could do to stop what happened to his son.
Sorry if I rambled.