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    Amanda Terkel‏Verified account @aterkel Feb 21

    What would happen if a kid accidentally got a teacher’s gun? What guns would teachers be allowed to have? An AR-15?

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      1. Julie Schultz‏ @julieschultzsnp Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        I don’t want one and would quit teaching if forced to carry one ...

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      2. Alex Simmons‏ @Simmons407 Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel @SarahSpain

        I'm no expert and I'm not here to argue but a pistol in a small locked safe. The mere knowledge of it being there will deter many potential attackers.

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      3. Sarah Spain‏Verified account @SarahSpain Feb 21
        Replying to @Simmons407 @aterkel

        With an ar-15? Many of whom are on a suicide mission?

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      4. Drizzle‏ @josephmontez5 Feb 21
        Replying to @SarahSpain @Simmons407 @aterkel

        how will these kids change this, by becoming politicians, getting offered a lot of money, then being pro gun, what a cycle we have been in for a long time

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      1. Seditious Patriot‏ @TrumperTrolling Feb 21
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        Or this.pic.twitter.com/2iucYJdd43

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      1. Johnny B. Goode‏ @JohnnysGoode Feb 21
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        Baltimore city schools have no heat! Flint Michigan has no water! But every teacher is supposed to get firearm training & a gun?

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      1. Thurman Martin‏ @TRMJr Feb 21
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        Exactly. As Sports writer Mark Purty wrote, what happens when a 220 lb kid overwhelms a teacher and takes his/her gun? Also, heard Soldiers talking about how there would be more casaulties from fire fights w/shooters in confusion.

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      2. Wilder‏ @WildesaurausRex Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel @SarahSpain

        What happens when a teacher panic shoots and kills a kid? The district would go bankrupt from the suit.

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      3. Sarah Spain‏Verified account @SarahSpain Feb 21
        Replying to @WildesaurausRex @aterkel

        Yep. Just awful to think about.

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      4. Wilder‏ @WildesaurausRex Feb 21
        Replying to @SarahSpain @aterkel

        I live next to a gun smith. A freaking real smith. She told me she has seen more non whites purchase rifles. She said she thinks seeing the nazi stuff on tv really scared people into to..just not wanting to be targetted. Crazy. Its all fear based.

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      1. Jacob Cayer‏ @CobFromRhody Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel @SarahSpain

        Ask these kids if they wished a few teachers had a gun to possibly save lives. Let them answer and go from there.

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      1. Vincent Vincenzo‏ @vvincenzo Feb 21
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        A Howitzer in each homeroom

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      1. starr & sun‏ @2liveunStews Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel @SarahSpain

        Teachers all over the US are having sex with students but we want them to carry guns? Of course there's more money for that than supplies 😒

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      1. Pete Smillie‏ @mequantum Feb 21
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        Will kids be asked to share lookout duty for the teacher while she's focused on her lesson? Just like we used to be assigned the chore of cleaning the erasers?

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      1. Jack Snoop  🌈 #rolltide‏ @THErealshanm Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel @SarahSpain

        Stop confusing this with excellent questions about highly likely scenarios. This is no time for facts and clear thinking. 😏

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      1. Meghan‏ @meghan_e Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel @mharvey816

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        This thread is all I think about when I hear talk of teachers being armed.https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964157761427787777 …

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        Every time another one of these mass shootings happen - right when the Republicans start telling us that the answer is more guns, guns for everyone, guns for teachers, guns for students - I think about Chris Kyle.
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      1. Ian‏ @ianjay_ Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        what happened if a teacher got upset... we've seen videos of what some teachers do... what if a kid stole it or somehow got it... what happens in a firefight... where do they get the funding? training? who thinks having more guns around children is a good idea?!

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      1. Hella Mayo 🦇‏ @ella_mayo_lmao Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        It's not "if." It's "when." Dense crowds of people, busy and sometimes forgetful, all day 180 days a year. A kid *will* get a teacher's gun. What happens then? Probably nothing, most of the time, but people will be shot and killed.

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      1. Sarah B‏ @FauxFlat Feb 21
        Replying to @aterkel

        My thoughts exactly!

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      1. PamS‏ @PamSchep Feb 21
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        Who's going to pay for them

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