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    Amanda Terkel‏Verified account @aterkel Feb 21

    If you’re in school, curious to know — do you want your teachers armed with guns? Would you feel safer? Why/why not? Reply, DM, or email me.

    7:01 PM - 21 Feb 2018
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      2. Margaret Kieler‏ @margiesaalsaa Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        I’m a teacher. The last time I held a gun was when I played Duck Hunt, and I sucked at that. My job is to connect with kids and teach them a language. No shooting required.

        29 replies 490 retweets 2,276 likes
      3. jillian blue  🎨‏ @cre8ivetype Feb 21
        Replying to @margiesaalsaa @rowast @aterkel

        pic.twitter.com/zjy7eTtmQd

        0 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
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      2. Jacqueline P. M.‏ @ilivewmyparents Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        How about asking us teachers? Bc the answer is NO - I do NOT want to be trained for this! I didn’t sign up for this!!!!!!

        42 replies 381 retweets 1,782 likes
      3. Dane Venable‏ @iamthedane2 Feb 21
        Replying to @ilivewmyparents @aterkel

        Trump & Rick Scott can't give you money for school supplies, but they'll give you bullets, guns, Kevlar vests and arms training. Got it

        3 replies 4 retweets 20 likes
      4. Jacqueline P. M.‏ @ilivewmyparents Feb 21
        Replying to @iamthedane2 @aterkel

        Soooo true!!!! So we gotta buy our own supplies but you’re gonna send me to the shooting range?pic.twitter.com/pu9sTBnA0t

        3 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
      5. kate60456‏ @kate60456 Feb 21
        Replying to @ilivewmyparents @iamthedane2 @aterkel

        Exactly. With what money? How about making sure our kids parents make a living wage so they don’t have to work 3 jobs? How about Medicare for all with mental health? How about enough counselors and social workers in schools? How about teaching the whole child!

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      6. Lorilei Trump is a traitor‏ @LoriWest2 Feb 21
        Replying to @kate60456 @iamthedane2 @aterkel

        👏 Thank you. For some of my students, school is the ONLY safe place they have. Why ruin it and make it a prison. Why make them feel unsafe? More guns isn't the answer. GOP want to place the responsibility on schools/teachers rather than piss off gun voters & lose #NRABloodMoney

        2 replies 4 retweets 8 likes
      7. Dane Venable‏ @iamthedane2 Feb 21
        Replying to @LoriWest2 @kate60456 @aterkel

        In high school and college, I spent way more time in those buildings/campus than I did at home. Those places, ppl in them, were my entire life

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. Lorilei Trump is a traitor‏ @LoriWest2 Feb 21
        Replying to @iamthedane2 @kate60456 @aterkel

        You're so right. My 15 year old is in NHS, plays football, basketball & baseball at his high school. He is there on average 8 hours a day for meetings, study sessions, practices, workouts and games. It is supposed to be a safe place!

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      2. Amy spelled backwards is murder‏ @snoopysnowcone Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel @jamespmanley

        Working in a school I would say absolutely 💯 no. To put this burden of responsibility on teachers would be cruel and crazy. In the event of an active shooter or the threat it would cause chaos and more possibility of death.

        12 replies 246 retweets 1,238 likes
      3. karen moss‏ @karenmoss3 Feb 22
        Replying to @snoopysnowcone @LucianaLamb and

        Someone recently made the point that carrying a gun could be a death sentence for black and brown teachers. Remember Philando Castile?

        2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
      4. Amy spelled backwards is murder‏ @snoopysnowcone Feb 22
        Replying to @karenmoss3 @LucianaLamb and

        Absolutely. It is a nightmare waiting to happen

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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      2. James McPherson‏ @JimBMcPherson Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        Oh hell no. My dad was a school teacher & administrator, my sis a school social worker & my wife a school counselor. I have 26 years of university teaching experience, own guns & taught gun safety. And there's no way my family members or I want guns (including ours) in schools.

        6 replies 26 retweets 80 likes
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      2. Mark Jowett‏ @markajowett Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        I teach high school. I would resign before I’d allow a firearm in my room.

        7 replies 22 retweets 100 likes
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      1. Steve Singiser‏ @stevesingiser Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        I teach at a school. It's an absolutely idiotic idea, on any number of levels.

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      2. Gerald Lombardi‏ @GeraldLombardi Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        When I was in the military we trained and trained and trained so we could perform and go to war if called on even then people are killed by friendly fire a weapon in the hands of a lesser trained person is a recipe for disaster

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      2. Logan Burwell‏ @Lifer__ Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel @jamespmanley

        In my hometown... the answer is, absolutely not.https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/09/05/idaho-professor-shoots-himself-in-foot-two-months-after-state-legalizes-guns-on-campuses/?utm_term=.eeba7d860f73 …

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