I genuinely don’t understand why it’s proponents call it democratic socialism. That name will immediately turn off a lot of Americans. Should have called it democratic patriotism or something.

Oh I agree, children are more likely to be killed by lightening then a suicidal person hellbent on taking others with them. There’s a reason the news media gleefully shove those events in our faces, they’re incredibly rare. The way I personally see it, a teacher is already trusted spend a lot of time with children. And a person with a concealed carry license is trusted, and routinely vetted, to carry a gun at the grocery store or bank or whatever. Not only that, concealed carriers are less likely to commit a crime than cops. If someone is both a teacher and a licensed concealed carrier, and is willing to spend their own time and money proving that they’re extra responsible and of sound mind, why not give them the option to take their pistol out of their parked car and keep it on their person while at school? Make a system where individual teachers have to continuously prove they’re responsible enough to be trusted with a pistol on school. That would most likely weed out a lot of teachers.

We already “trust” police departments to make one of their least competent cops stand around a school all day with a gun.

In most states you have to be over 21 if you want to conceal carry a pistol.

Most soldiers are too young. And military personnel technically can conceal carry on base, but it need’s the base commander’s approval. So it is effectively banned. Why? The military as a whole is incredibly (and paradoxically) risk averse. You have to wear your 3-5lb ballistic helmet when you’re driving a tactical vehicle, even if you’re just driving it to a different parking spot 10 feet over because Sergeant Major thinks it looks better over there. Amongst the officers and leadership, it’s a very big CYA culture. If one soldier dies by suicide on base with their personal firearm, well their answer is to just ban guns on base. Don’t need to increase access to mental health providers, that costs money. Now it’s not the DoD’s fault someone got shot, we don’t let them have guns. A Marine rapes someone? We’ll ban all Marines from going off base, and make them all watch a PowerPoint on why rape is bad. Can’t be the DoD’s fault, we told them rape is bad. Oh there was a DUI on base that resulted in a bunch of death’s? Not the DoD’s fault, we said they can’t drink on base. A bunch of soldier’s died in a flash flood, knowing there was an imminent storm on this area known for flash floods? Oh that can’t be the DoD’s fault for making them train anyway, the now dead sergeant should have checked the base’s weather page that nobody knows about. It really doesn’t matter if servicemembers die or get hurt, as long as the officer’s in charged covered their ass.

If you still check out reddit, go check out /r/military, /r/army, or any of their US military focused sub’s. You’ll see complaints of leadership doing this kind of CYA, bare minimum bullshit over and over instead of actually fixing the problems.

TL;DR The head honchos in the US military don’t care whether or not conceal carry on base has the potential to make things safer. They just don’t want to look bad and get a black mark on their file.

Never understood why Republicans think issuing guns to teachers is a good idea. Letting teachers conceal carry if they want to? Now that’s something I think could work. Provided the teachers get some sort of extra certification that proves they’re extra responsible and not a nut.

Most soldiers are too young to conceal carry. Also, the federal government doesn’t let anyone conceal carry on it’s properties, with the only exception being outdoor recreation areas like National Forests or Parks.

Collective Shout is Australian.

Yep, then lgbtq games, then games with guns, then games with blood, so on and so on