George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽If armed bank guards can’t stop a killer before he kills, how do they expect armed teachers to?
Tristen Grant@georgetakei I heard they want to arm kids to. 🙄
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Some kids are already armed, like this 6-year-old who shot his teacher:
Teacher shot by 6-year-old student files $40 million lawsuit
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia teacher who was shot and seriously wounded by her 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $40 million in damages from school officials, accusing them of gross negligence and of ignoring multiple warnings the day of the shooting that the boy was armed and in a “violent mood.”
@johnlogic sure as with the kids that shoot schools. Does this mean all kids should have guns?
@tristen I think that no kids should have guns--at least not without supervision by a responsible adult--and many adults shouldn't either.
Eric the half-a-bee@johnlogic @tristen @georgetakei
That kid should not have been at school. Given his history he should have been forcibly restrained and searched.
Disgusting weakness on the part of school principal and administrators.
@Ericthebeeover2 and the government and police. Probably the healthcare system to.
@Ericthebeeover2 mostly the kids fault though.
The kid has serious mental problems. Plain and simple. He’s just plain dangerous, and at just 6 years old too. He needs drastic intervention now if he’s going to have any chance at all of having a decent life.
We are all so concerned about APPEARING to be caring, inclusive, supportive and affirmative that some of us will take it to extreme and ridiculous lengths, so endangering others.
Such is the case of this school’s principal, admin and “security” staff. Sue them all 😖
@Ericthebeeover2 They aren't blameless, but the kid made the choice.
Norman Kebell@tristen @Ericthebeeover2 some choice, now wheres the gun ffs
@Ericthebeeover2 @tristen all countries have children with serious mental health problems just they don't provide them with easy access to guns. Im beginning to think half of all Americans have serious mental health problems.
@tristen @Ericthebeeover2 not the fault of people who think everybody should have a gun and control America?
@Tormid @johnlogic @tristen @georgetakei
As I remember, from the article, the gun was in a locked box on a top shelf. He still managed to get it.
@Tormid @johnlogic @tristen @georgetakei
My own experience bears this out. When I was 10, in 1961 and living in Auckland, NZ, I called round to join a group of my friends having heard a distinctive “crack crack”.
The little bugger had managed to open the locked cupboard and assemble his father’s rifle. The bolt and the .22 cal LR soft nosed varmint ammo were in separate parts of the house. This didn’t stop him.
Naturally, we all wanted to turn, but he kept it to himself. It turned into a full shooting spree during which time he tried to shoot myself, a friend, and finally managed to shoot a third friend in the thigh.
That friend required a major operation to get all the fragments out and ended up with a 2 foot long scar down his thigh and calf.
The boy was clearly deranged, I don’t know what finally happened to him but his parents left New Zealand and returned with him to Australia. I still have a particular loathing for the .22.