(CT shooting) "Give teachers guns": US blogs awash with people calling for more people to be armed

mirror.co.uk ^ | 16 December, 2012 | Anton Antonowicz

[marktwain]

SCREAMING mums at schools, dads cradling children... it’s all too familiar to those of us who live in the United States.

Hours after the latest outrage the internet was awash with the unapologetic views of those who live and die by the gun.

Take this: “No crime would be permitted on my property because I am f****** armed. I can’t wait to kill someone ­legally.”

Or this from Alan ­Gottlieb, head of the pro-gun 2nd Amendment Foundation: “There was nobody in that school allowed a firearm. I find that deplorable. I’m sure Lanza felt he could go in ­because no one had a gun.”

It’s insane. Insane to think teachers should be armed and insanity itself to try to explain the killer’s motives.

[Sherman Logan]

Thanks for the history lesson, some of which I was already familiar with.

Turns out UK and US are quite different, though closely related, cultures. Who knew?

[Winniesboy]

Kind of you to say so. I didn’t think what I said was particularly insightful, and could have been more elegantly expressed. Often in the past when this subject has come up I’ve felt something like this needed saying: but I’ve usually been inhibited by the certainty that, whenever somebody from this side of the Atlantic dares to say anything at all about guns, however cautiously and mildly expressed, it will provoke the kind of puerile abuse of which post 7 in this thread is a pretty mild example.