Teachers frequently deal with kids, including the young criminals (maybe some legit bad kids in that mix), without guns. On the whole are successful, and don't rely on guns to control the kids they're working with.

One of the things that has been rattling around in my head that I think lines up w/what Shawn is saying, was something I heard in interview w/Billy Moore (the guy who shot Benji Wilson when they were kids)- He said something along the lines of 'when you carry a gun, you attract gun problems'.

Disarming the police kind of feels counter-intuitive to a lot of people, myself included, but could go a long way towards reducing police violence - it would force police to come up with better strategies of de-escalation and also take guns out of the hands of some of the bad actors on the police force.

Anyway, that's what I took from it.