I was at a mini-conference a few years ago and ended up in a session about workplace safety. Woman running it started off with playing the Columbine 911 call ('cause I totally signed up for that!), and then putting forth the idea that if the teachers and/or other adults there had been carrying, the tragedy could have ended sooner.
I teach. I can do a lot of things well at the front of a classroom. The idea that taking down a shooter ought to be one of them? Beyond baffling.
That was the first time I remember hearing the "we'd all be safer if everyone was carrying" narrative. It's still as mind-boggling as it's ever been. I guess it's just another shade of victim-blaming, so it shouldn't really surprise me that much, but... goddamn.
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Date: 2012-07-20 07:20 pm (UTC)I teach. I can do a lot of things well at the front of a classroom. The idea that taking down a shooter ought to be one of them? Beyond baffling.
That was the first time I remember hearing the "we'd all be safer if everyone was carrying" narrative. It's still as mind-boggling as it's ever been. I guess it's just another shade of victim-blaming, so it shouldn't really surprise me that much, but... goddamn.