>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.

kids generally don't have guns in school, people on the street do. Until we take reforming gun control laws seriously I don't think we can talk about taking guns from cops however unfortunate that may be.


>
>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.
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