Florida is set to arm teachers

Should teachers have weapons in their classrooms?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 21.4%
  • No

    Votes: 22 78.6%

  • Total voters
    28

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
Americans are fked in the head. Armed teachers? LMFAO. Next will be metal detectors and high walls.

Why not just send them to prison instead of school.
What a weird lot you yanks are. Glad I don't live there.
Our fish and chips suck here too.

Metal detectors are used in some schools already.

I can't deny what you just said. Our gun laws are insane. Also insane -- Arming teachers and turn schools into high security zones in the face of evidence that guns are the problem.
 

Lucky Luke

Well-Known Member
Our fish and chips suck here too.

Metal detectors are used in some schools already.

I can't deny what you just said. Our gun laws are insane. Also insane -- Arming teachers and turn schools into high security zones in the face of evidence that guns are the problem.
You have metal detectors in schools?
Fk me what are ya doing to your kids to grow up thinking that's normal? wow...
 

ttystikk

Well-Known Member
I'm all for this The average shooting is <3 minutes. It takes place on average 5 minutes just to get there. You saw from this last shooting even if the police are there it does not mean they will actually act. Teachers have a vested interest in their children. So yes they should be the 1st line of defense. We can spend millions of dollars to safeguard sporting events and stadiums why can't we do it with our schools? It's not like teachers are gonna be walking around with rifles on their shoulders and actually having concealed weapons is probly less traumatic for the kids.
The 'good guys with guns' were already there. They were just cowering outside behind their squad cars, waiting for the shooter to finish.

Arming teachers with guns will certainly change the headlines, though. They'll be full of 'teacher shot student over missed homework assignment' stories.
 

Amazon Blaze

Active Member
First. You say that you were or a psychotherapist and that requires, what, like 8 years of school. 8 years of higher education and you can't make paragraphs instead of a block of text.

Being in that field you should also understand that people have the attention span of a gnat. More reason to use paragraphs.

Then to the video games. Quite a few studies say the opposite.

As far as guns. I hope gun owners lock them up and use something like a rapid safe for home protection guns.

If a person feels the need to carry then they need to take various training above just shooting. Weapon retention and things of the sort.

Close gun show loops. Stop mentally ill from being able to buy guns. Ban bump stocks.

Enforce the laws on the books. Put penalties in place for things like not reporting a dishonorable discharge or other offenses that keep someone from owning a gun.

I'm for being able to own something like an ar15. Maybe restrict them to a class 3. If not maybe make the background check for them more thorough.

I get that these type guns are being used in mass shootings. The bulk of killings are from short guns.

Im not sure what to do but I'm flexible.
"First. You say that you were or a psychotherapist and that requires, what, like 8 years of school. 8 years of higher education and you can't make paragraphs instead of a block of text. Being in that field you should also understand that people have the attention span of a gnat. More reason to use paragraphs."

Yes, I said, "I am an ex psychotherapist" It looks good so far, you are actually reporting what I said correctly. I am not sure why, other than to try and discredit the rest of what I said, with a critique of my grammar, that is the norm on facebook.

Having been in that field, I know, not to ASSUME what other people think and feel and what their attention spans are, until they demonstrate it.Which is why I changed the format for fogdog in my second post, as I could see he was struggling with his ability to understand what I actually said, and not what he thought I said, because he skimmed through my post without actually reading it properly.

"Then to the video games. Quite a few studies say the opposite."

Please quote me from my posts, where I say playing violent video games, causes people to commit acts of violence please?

To help you in case you are as confused as dogfog, here is the the dictionary explanation of the word DESENSITIZE.

de·sen·si·tize
dēˈsensəˌtīz/
verb
verb: desensitize; 3rd person present: desensitizes; past tense: desensitized; past participle: desensitized; gerund or present participle: desensitizing; verb: desensitise; 3rd person present: desensitises; past tense: desensitised; past participle: desensitised; gerund or present participle: desensitising
  1. make less sensitive.
    "creams to desensitize the skin at the site of the injection"
    • make (someone) less likely to feel shock or distress at scenes of cruelty, violence, or suffering by overexposure to such images.
      "people who view such movies become desensitized to violence"
    • free (someone) from a phobia or neurosis by gradually exposing the person to the thing that is feared.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=dictionary&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=u8GeWo2WJfHFXoOWhoAH#dobs=desensitize&gfe_rd=cr

"As far as guns."
As far as guns go, I agree with you apart from the use of semi automatic military weapons being allowed to be owned by the public.

"Im not sure what to do but I'm flexible"
If you are flexible, I suggest you do Yoga and leave guns alone :)
 

907cannabis

Well-Known Member
"I didn't lose you because you didn't understand." Are you sure that wasn't a Freudian slip? Because I don't think you do understand what I am saying, because you keep changing it about in your mind, to make an argument that is not there.

So I will say it again and emphasize the points you need to understand. People who play video games and watch violent films become DESENSITIZED to violence and guns. (to make indifferent, unaware, or the like, in feeling)
They DO NOT BECOME PSYCOPATHS.

"Sorry but the analogy for military isn't very good"

Its not an analogy, its fact.
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/01/better-simulation-could-save-military-millions/104172/

"Video game playing doesn't have a good correlation to gun violence or else you'd be seeing something like a zombie horde come out on the street with each release of Call of Duty."

I did not say this, I said , IT DESENSITIZES PEOPLE, it makes it more acceptable to people.

"The problem with commonly accepted theories like this and the gateway drug theory for cannabis is that the relationship between the purported causal factor and the purported result has very poor correlation and small sample size. Teeeeensy number of mass shootings to millions of video game players and you claim there is a relationship."

No I said, IT DESENSITIZES PEOPLE, its another straw on the camels back, that makes it generally more acceptable/normal for people to see.

"I'm not saying video game playing might desensitize people to fantasy violence they may also see in the cinema. I'm just saying practically all of people who play video games or the millions more exposed to violence on TV and in movies are able discriminate between what is fantasy and what is real real. We have 10's of mass shooters in the US every year and you point to millions of video players. I guess some psychiatrists are just bad at statistics."

You are making assumptions here, that everyone thinks like you and has the same personal reality as you. They don't, so you cant say what, they do or do not experience when watching films and playing video games.Practically all is not everyone, the ones who are not included in practically all, could POSSIBLY experience it as something more real than most and become more DESENSITIZED than most other people playing them.

"I guess some psychiatrists are just bad at statistics."

I take that you are referring to me, not accepting your "study" argument. I would agree, psychiatrists are bad a lot of things, not just statistics.

I was a psychoanalyst, not a psychiatrist, they are different.

"Myself, I'm not a video game player nor am I a fan of shoot'em ups, slasher movies or other blood and guts movies. For example, I actively avoided seeing even the trailer of Silence of the Lambs, not because I think it's a bad movie but I'm unwilling to allow those images in my head. You completely miss my reasoning and assumed bias. No more true was your belief that there is a reasonably good relationship between video games and mass shootings."

Good for you, you are actively trying to stay sensitive to violence, one less DESENSITIZED person to worry about.
You should try playing computer games, especially first person shooters, you might get a different perspective on my argument.

I used to play Battlefield 3, sometimes competitively for clans, before my injury stopped play. I think I have about 3,000 hours logged just on BF3. I was really good, usually placed in the top 5 players on any server I played on. I enjoyed the psychological aspects to it as well as looking into an opponents eyes before sticking a knife in his chest lol. The first time I played it, I lasted 20 minutes before I had to stop, because I was shaking so much from the adrenaline and anger at dying very quickly. Sitting in front of a 42 inch high def tv, 3 ft in front of me, with a high performance gaming rig and surround sound headphones on. It took me about 3 hours to calm down. I tried playing it again 2 weeks later, after the ptsd subsided, still got the same adrenaline rush and frustration with the weapons, I wasn't used to using. Every time I played I DESENSITIZED myself further to the sounds and emotions I was experiencing, so I could focus on my targets more easily. Yes I understand the difference between virtual and real reality, no it would not consciously make me a killer. At an unconscious level it was part of my personal reality and did DESENSITIZE me to violence at a conscious everyday level. My buddy who had never had a driving accident, hit 2 parked cars and put his car in a ditch 40 yds down the rd after leaving my house after playing Driver for 3 hours. He said he just got in the car and started to drive like he had just been doing on the computer game.

"Guns are the problem, not video games."

No, video games, like a lot of other things, are a part of the problem, why people in the USA, accept and make it easy to access guns. Guns are the biggest part of the problem.
Thank you for the biggest laugh I've had this year! If you believe this crap by all means don't play violent games or watch violent movies, they make you not care when your dog dies.

Biggest load of **** I've ever heard, I played cod for years and I cry like a baby anytime anything close to me dies, If anything I'm more sensitive now, I cry during movies and shit too lol.

I couldn't imagine how I'd be if I never played and never had that mind control emotion suppressing nonsense going on. I might be gay by now. :shock:

The part about your buddy and driver.....you both are the type that shouldn't have drivers licenses or guns. Or play video games for that matter.
 

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
"First. You say that you were or a psychotherapist and that requires, what, like 8 years of school. 8 years of higher education and you can't make paragraphs instead of a block of text. Being in that field you should also understand that people have the attention span of a gnat. More reason to use paragraphs."

Yes, I said, "I am an ex psychotherapist" It looks good so far, you are actually reporting what I said correctly. I am not sure why, other than to try and discredit the rest of what I said, with a critique of my grammar, that is the norm on facebook.

Having been in that field, I know, not to ASSUME what other people think and feel and what their attention spans are, until they demonstrate it.Which is why I changed the format for fogdog in my second post, as I could see he was struggling with his ability to understand what I actually said, and not what he thought I said, because he skimmed through my post without actually reading it properly.

"Then to the video games. Quite a few studies say the opposite."

Please quote me from my posts, where I say playing violent video games, causes people to commit acts of violence please?

To help you in case you are as confused as dogfog, here is the the dictionary explanation of the word DESENSITIZE.

de·sen·si·tize
dēˈsensəˌtīz/
verb
verb: desensitize; 3rd person present: desensitizes; past tense: desensitized; past participle: desensitized; gerund or present participle: desensitizing; verb: desensitise; 3rd person present: desensitises; past tense: desensitised; past participle: desensitised; gerund or present participle: desensitising
  1. make less sensitive.
    "creams to desensitize the skin at the site of the injection"
    • make (someone) less likely to feel shock or distress at scenes of cruelty, violence, or suffering by overexposure to such images.
      "people who view such movies become desensitized to violence"
    • free (someone) from a phobia or neurosis by gradually exposing the person to the thing that is feared.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=dictionary&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=u8GeWo2WJfHFXoOWhoAH#dobs=desensitize&gfe_rd=cr

"As far as guns."
As far as guns go, I agree with you apart from the use of semi automatic military weapons being allowed to be owned by the public.

"Im not sure what to do but I'm flexible"
If you are flexible, I suggest you do Yoga and leave guns alone :)
I'll try to make this simple for you.

Video game playing has no correlation to gun homicides.

The number of guns owned by the population is correlated to gun homicides.
 

907cannabis

Well-Known Member
@Lucky Luke I've had the pleasure of growing up in a state with no recorded mass school shootings, (one small dispute school shooting I think) we don't do metal detectors or drills or anything. Heck we made exceptions to the gun free zones, checked in our rifles at school even after hunting on the way there!

There is a big mount and a story at the local sporting goods store about a friend of mine who shot a Boone and Crockett buck on the way to middle school. He recently took the mount home after many years. The story was published by B&C records club.

We need education, we need people willing to do their part, we need more than just gun control. We have a nation of idiots who blame video games and others for their mental problems.

It's the whole system not just guns, healthcare would help, better law enforcement would help, better counseling and cheaper too please while we're at it!

We can be diverse and not point it out, we can disagree and we can move on, not spread hate spread love instead, this problem is deeper than guns, it's evil at its very core. These fucking people kill first graders!
 

ttystikk

Well-Known Member
@Lucky Luke I've had the pleasure of growing up in a state with no recorded mass school shootings, (one small dispute school shooting I think) we don't do metal detectors or drills or anything. Heck we made exceptions to the gun free zones, checked in our rifles at school even after hunting on the way there!

There is a big mount and a story at the local sporting goods store about a friend of mine who shot a Boone and Crockett buck on the way to middle school. He recently took the mount home after many years. The story was published by B&C records club.

We need education, we need people willing to do their part, we need more than just gun control. We have a nation of idiots who blame video games and others for their mental problems.

It's the whole system not just guns, healthcare would help, better law enforcement would help, better counseling and cheaper too please while we're at it!

We can be diverse and not point it out, we can disagree and we can move on, not spread hate spread love instead, this problem is deeper than guns, it's evil at its very core. These fucking people kill first graders!
Laws are for people who don't care about how their actions affect others.

Love works better, I'll grant you that, but not everyone has it.
 

907cannabis

Well-Known Member
Laws are also there cause some conservative asshole has a lot of money and media power too. You do smoke weed right, you know it's still illegal right?
 

Amazon Blaze

Active Member
I didn't read your wall of text. I skimmed it. Everything about your hypothesis that video games have something to do with gun violence is refuted in the two charts I posted a few posts above yours. There is no correlation between video game playing and gun homicides. None, nada, not a shred, not even close.

I point out that there is an alternate hypothesis that fits the data better than yours. The more guns available, the better chance of gun getting into the hands of a homicidal person. Your theory on the other hand doesn't fit the empirical data at all.

The video game violence theory is a red herring type of argument used by those who are protecting the gun industry from stricter gun control laws. I'm not saying you are doing that. I think you believe what you are saying. I am responding because this kind of propaganda is effective and want to put a small voice out there to counter it.
"I didn't read your wall of text. I skimmed it. Everything about your hypothesis that video games have something to do with gun violence is refuted in the two charts I posted a few posts above yours. There is no correlation between video game playing and gun homicides. None, nada, not a shred, not even close."

Ignorance is not an excuse, for quoting someone and then accusing them of making a hypothesis, that they did not do, to justify your opinions.

I suggest you read what people are posting fully before you start shooting your opinions at them. Your arrogance is more outstanding than your ineptitude at understanding a written statement, because you think you know what someone has written without reading it fully and checking the words you don't understand.

I saw your post with the diagrams, but I ignored it, as its not relevant to what I said, which is playing video games DESENSITIZES people to violence. If you wish to believe that it means something else that's your prerogative but please don't include me in your fantasy, or accuse me for it being something different than what it is.

" point out that there is an alternate hypothesis that fits the data better than yours. The more guns available, the better chance of gun getting into the hands of a homicidal person. Your theory on the other hand doesn't fit the empirical data at all."

No you are pointing out a hypothesis to an illusion of what you think I said, because you didn't read my statement fully and comprehend what I actually said.

"The video game violence theory is a red herring type of argument used by those who are protecting the gun industry from stricter gun control laws"

Very Possibly.

I'm not saying you are doing that. I think you believe what you are saying. I am responding because this kind of propaganda is effective and want to put a small voice out there to counter"

Yes I do believe what I am saying, in fact I know exactly what I am saying. Its you who has the problem interpreting what I am saying, because you cant be bothered to read properly.
 

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
"I didn't read your wall of text. I skimmed it. Everything about your hypothesis that video games have something to do with gun violence is refuted in the two charts I posted a few posts above yours. There is no correlation between video game playing and gun homicides. None, nada, not a shred, not even close."

Ignorance is not an excuse, for quoting someone and then accusing them of making a hypothesis, that they did not do, to justify your opinions.

I suggest you read what people are posting fully before you start shooting your opinions at them. Your arrogance is more outstanding than your ineptitude at understanding a written statement, because you think you know what someone has written without reading it fully and checking the words you don't understand.

I saw your post with the diagrams, but I ignored it, as its not relevant to what I said, which is playing video games DESENSITIZES people to violence. If you wish to believe that it means something else that's your prerogative but please don't include me in your fantasy, or accuse me for it being something different than what it is.

" point out that there is an alternate hypothesis that fits the data better than yours. The more guns available, the better chance of gun getting into the hands of a homicidal person. Your theory on the other hand doesn't fit the empirical data at all."

No you are pointing out a hypothesis to an illusion of what you think I said, because you didn't read my statement fully and comprehend what I actually said.

"The video game violence theory is a red herring type of argument used by those who are protecting the gun industry from stricter gun control laws"

Very Possibly.

I'm not saying you are doing that. I think you believe what you are saying. I am responding because this kind of propaganda is effective and want to put a small voice out there to counter"

Yes I do believe what I am saying, in fact I know exactly what I am saying. Its you who has the problem interpreting what I am saying, because you cant be bothered to read properly.
I'll try to make this simple for you.

Video game playing has no correlation to gun homicides.

The number of guns owned by the population is correlated to gun homicides.
 

Amazon Blaze

Active Member
Thank you for the biggest laugh I've had this year! If you believe this crap by all means don't play violent games or watch violent movies, they make you not care when your dog dies.

Biggest load of **** I've ever heard, I played cod for years and I cry like a baby anytime anything close to me dies, If anything I'm more sensitive now, I cry during movies and shit too lol.

I couldn't imagine how I'd be if I never played and never had that mind control emotion suppressing nonsense going on. I might be gay by now. :shock:

The part about your buddy and driver.....you both are the type that shouldn't have drivers licenses or guns. Or play video games for that matter.
Thank you for the biggest laugh I've had this year! If you believe this crap by all means don't play violent games or watch violent movies, they make you not care when your dog dies. Biggest load of **** I've ever heard, I played cod for years and I cry like a baby anytime anything close to me dies, If anything I'm more sensitive now, I cry during movies and shit too lol

I am glad you are enjoying it as much as I am.

I am not saying don't play video games, please don't assume you know what I feel or think, or add to dogfogs Illusion by suggesting things, I don't say or agree with, you will bring yourself down to his level of ignorance.

This may come as a shock to you but your a unique person, no other person has the exact same reality as you or anyone else on the planet. Yes you can generalize sometimes, but never take it for granted, because that's when people slip through the gaps and commit atrocities, because people assume they know what someone is or is not capable of. Its very difficult to know how someone with psychological issues will act, unless you have the similar psychological issues and personal reality.

That's why people go to therapists instead of just reading a book to sort themselves out. Most therapists, become therapists at an unconscious level, to heal their own psychological issues.

"I couldn't imagine how I'd be if I never played and never had that mind control emotion suppressing nonsense going on. I might be gay by now."

Its not a control its an acceptance. It doesn't suppress emotions, it makes you more tolerant of a social behavior, in your personal reality and society.

You still have the opportunity to become gay, whether you play video games or not, I don't think it will make a difference. From your remark, I think you are saying, that being gay, is to be over sensitive. If so, this is an incorrect stereo type and another assumption on your part, that you know what other people think and feel.

"The part about your buddy and driver.....you both are the type that shouldn't have drivers licenses or guns. Or play video games for that matter"

Be careful, with statements like that, you will have fogdog quoting you next as saying, that people who play video games can be influenced to commit murder, and start accusing you of being a pro gun lobbyist, trying to weaken gun laws and fill the pockets of the NRA and the GOP government.
 

Amazon Blaze

Active Member
I'll try to make this simple for you.

Video game playing has no correlation to gun homicides.

The number of guns owned by the population is correlated to gun homicides.
I will try to make it even more simple for you.

I have never said, anything to the contrary.
 

Fogdog

Well-Known Member
I will try to make it even more simple for you.

I have never said, anything to the contrary.
Yet on a thread about "arming teachers instead of enacting rational gun control measures", in the midst of complaints by myself and others who claim rational gun control measure are a solution, you go on and on about how video games desensitize people. I can see the implication. I speak out against this implication because it's a red herring argument used by gun industry advocate/lobbyists. There is no evidence that video games are linked to outrageously high rate of gun homicides in this country

Also you damn well did say video games are part of the problem of gun homicides.

"Guns are the problem, not video games."

No, video games, like a lot of other things, are a part of the problem
Contrary to your claim, there is no direct evidence video games are a part of the problem.
 
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