February 24, 2018

Word: The math behind arming teachers tells it's not about safety

John Rothrock Let's break out a napkin and do some math...There are roughly 100,000 public schools with say 50 teachers each. So 5 million teachers get relatively cheap handguns at $500 each, or 2.5 billion dollars, not including ammo. Training, certification and annual maintenance of these new skills as specialty law enforcement costs $5000 - $10000 per teacher. So another 25 - 50 billion dollars per year to whoever trains and certifies them...Annual US gun sales are roughly 13.5 billion with 3.1 billion in profit..Still wondering why the NRA, gun manufacturers and our Republican politicians are working double time to defend this insanity? Still think it's all about protecting our children?

2 comments:

Catherine Del Masso said...

Another theory is that the infeasible ‘arm the teachers’ proposal is a ploy to distract us from the fight for improved gun safety regulations.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/23/17043216/florida-shooting-nra-teachers-guns

Anonymous said...

The teachers around here wouldn't have to buy anything, just get something from the safe...