Virginia Governor Considers Armed Teachers

"I think that’s a reasonable discussion that ought to be had,” he said."  "Reasonable" is defined as "based on good sense."  The arming of school administrators is not based on good sense.  A lethal weapon in the hands of a minimally trained person who's capacity to shoot, even in self-defense, to kill another individual would be highly problematic is not a reasonable alternative.  No matter how it may look in the movies, it is not a normal human capacity to face another and shoot to kill.  Range shooting will not provide any assurance of such accuracy at a moving, threatening target that innocents would be safe from their "protector."  Police officers are trained and trained again and again to face threatening situations to provide choices exercising good judgment. Distinguishing an angry parent from a deadly threat is not a task for an inexperienced teacher.  Should a threat occur at a school the responding police officers, some in civilian clothes, would be forced to encounter a situation with one or more armed criminals and one or more school administrators, each armed as well while scared and scattered throughout the premises.  Putting the innocents and the first responders in these situations is not reasonable.

Gov. McDonnell, I suspect, considers this proposal reasonable because he accepts the virtual reality packaged by the NRA and its proponents.  It is the core issue facing us today as to whether we will choose to break from this conceived matrix.  To those who recognize the reality of the carnage around us, it is irrational to answer gun violence with more guns.  To those who choose to live within the NRA matrix, the arming of school administrators is rational and reasonable.  I am reminded of the story of two Nazi SS officers walking near the gas ovens in some unnamed concentration camp.  They discuss various alternative ways to improve capacity within the ovens.  To them the discussion, as it is circumscribed by their constructed matrix of "final solution," is of reasonable alternatives and is rational.  To anyone outside and in the real world of moral values the discussion is wholly irrational.

The deaths of our children have been too horrible and the lives of those who remain are too precious to be valued within an irrational, packaged NRA matrix.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/mcdonnell-says-idea-of-armed-school-officials-worthy-of-discussion/article_06eed61d-eea9-5050-a797-8e0987687e85.html