{"id":5864,"date":"2018-02-28T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2018-04-11T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:22:19","slug":"gop-wants-pistol-packing-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5864","title":{"rendered":"GOP Wants Pistol Packing Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve commented many times about gun control here. We&#8217;ve even created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?cat=1687\" target=\"_blank\">category<\/a>. This subject seems like a no-brainer to most civilized, intelligent citizens.\u00a0For starters, reinstate the assault weapon ban and mass school shootings will decline. All logic points to this action.<\/p>\n<p>But American CEO\/Dictator, Donald Trump, and his Republican pals continue to lick the ass of their masters, the NRA, and push for ludicrous, asinine solutions. Just this past week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/21\/politics\/trump-listening-sessions-parkland-students\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trump trotted out the old &#8220;let&#8217;s arm the teachers&#8221; suggestion<\/a> to widespread and deserved ridicule. Then he backtracked and suggested that the cruel media was putting words in his mouth. Then he suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/2\/26\/17056200\/trump-governors-shooting-parkland-florida-gun-violence\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;d run in and save the children<\/a>. This from a man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/news\/colbert-on-trumps-vietnam-war-deferments-shooting-comment-w517152\" target=\"_blank\">got five deferments from Vietnam<\/a>, one for bone spurs. He couldn&#8217;t even <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/2018\/01\/17\/trump-umbrella-wife-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">protect his son and wife from rain with his umbrella<\/a>. And yet, Trump would charge into a school without a weapon to attack a shooter?\u00a0 Not bloody likely!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make no mistake: arming teachers is a horrendous idea. Arming students is a horrendous idea. Voting for Republicans is a horrendous idea.\u00a0Modern day conservative Republicans\u00a0are broken human beings and need to be removed from any kind of position of power.\u00a0 And Democrats, who also feed at the NRA trough, need to start stepping up to the plate, grow a spine and start pushing for legislation against assault weapons.<\/p>\n<p>And as if on cue, this just in&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/02\/28\/589714769\/georgia-school-evacuated-after-teacher-barricaded-himself-in-classroom-and-fired\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s news that a teacher in Georgia barricaded himself inside a school and fired a gun<\/a>. Hey Republicans&#8230;still think arming teachers is a great idea?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5867\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5867 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gunarmteacherschool.jpg\" alt=\"In conservative Republican schools of the future, no nonsense teachers will teach our children the importance of a good education beginning with how to use a gun.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gunarmteacherschool.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gunarmteacherschool-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In conservative Republican schools of the future, no nonsense teachers will teach our children the importance of a good education beginning with how to use a gun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve commented many times about gun control here. We&#8217;ve even created a category. This subject seems like a no-brainer to most civilized, intelligent citizens.\u00a0For starters, reinstate the assault weapon ban and mass school shootings will decline. All logic points to this action. But American CEO\/Dictator, Donald Trump, and his Republican pals continue to lick the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOP Wants Pistol Packing Teachers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,68,1687,85,3,198],"tags":[624,626,621,622,74,73,252,22,20,389,27,107,9,118,705,719,199,21,623,1700,98,596,296,19,47,48,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5871,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}