199
Tennessee House passes bill allowing armed teachers, sending measure to the governor
(www.tennessean.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
199 points (97.6% liked)
News
23310 readers
3830 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Didn't I just read a story about a unhinged teacher threatening to shoot another teacher after an argument? And said teacher went to get said gun?
Yeah this will end with kids dead I can promise you that.
They will just start arming the kids, too.
It started with kids dead, too. It's interesting how the proposed solution to the problem of too many gun deaths is consistently "let's try more guns". Has more guns ever solved this problem?
Beyond that, they want to take a demographic that is notoriously underpaid, underappreciated, in excessive debt, overstressed, and surrounded by shitty kids all day every day, and they want to give these people guns?! I hope parents are getting bulletproof vests for back to school shopping. And I hope the teachers show up armed to negotiate their teachers unions contracts.
And this is why I turned down an offer by an ex-employer to move to Atlanta GA. No thank you. I have school age children. I will take my blue state taxes to death district I can't really afford with first year teachers making +80k a year thanks.
Yes and no, in that order, I believe.
As expected, though, she (illegally) had a gun in the classroom with her, per the same article. And a second one in her car, which should also be illegal as it was parked on school property, explaining the two charges of carrying a gun onto school property.
Kids get killed by guns regardless. That's kind of how this all ends, no? Or did "dying from being shot" stop being the #1 cause of death for children under 18?
This is just so insane and disgusting. I don't even know what to say.
I believe it's clearly implied they meant they will be killed by the effects of this bill, not regardless. Generally, when having a discussion, the context of what is being discussed is important to the conversation and usually random things aren't being referred to for no reason.
I was just referencing that gun culture in the united states is horrible and impacts children severely, so putting guns in schools is even worse.