{"id":135931,"date":"2018-03-14T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T21:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135931"},"modified":"2018-03-20T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T14:53:49","slug":"safety-first-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/safety-first-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Safety First!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, this is not something that happens frequently. But it&#8217;s the sort of thing that <i>can<\/i> happen &#8212; even to ostensibly &#8220;trained&#8221; &#8220;professionals&#8221; who are acting with deliberate intent and with an eye toward safety.<\/p>\n<p>Putting more guns on more teachers in more classrooms is hypothetically a way to possibly address one danger. But it clearly introduces a new one.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23guns\" rel=\"nofollow\">#guns<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2018\/03\/14\/teacher-accidentally-discharges-firearm-in-calif-classroom-he-was-trained-in-gun-use\/?undefined&amp;utm_term=.b2d4473200bc&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/YToV-o_piGakkl_mHdMrC6TPW_lxM4zClaWcAoic8CZkrTSXft_p-y7EoQpXVVEQplSnqlhZ3gIhCIKrK1dn1Pe3MOnG5v5Gl2tfvfQVO3i92EX0EBQ8XFde6miMskc-7J4gM4rcASqPyG1H2ATsqOdNiq8cJOraMCYnbANjutMTZGi5ELJkc0p-aNkSjZ-kiyVIh3VG8IFBB4BQeKJDlaqL3Mgd3rcH12huITwF4zXtqXDnd60ojQ=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2018\/03\/14\/teacher-accidentally-discharges-firearm-in-calif-classroom-he-was-trained-in-gun-use\/?undefined&amp;utm_term=.b2d4473200bc&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\">Gun-trained teacher \u2018accidentally\u2019 discharges firearm in Calif. classroom, officials say, injuring student &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOne student was reportedly treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/7JuPUSjnBgr\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, this is not something that happens frequently. But it&#8217;s the sort of thing that can happen &#8212; even to ostensibly &#8220;trained&#8221; &#8220;professionals&#8221; who are acting with deliberate intent and with an eye toward safety. Putting more guns on more teachers in more classrooms is hypothetically a way to possibly address one danger. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/safety-first-4.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Safety First!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298,385,46],"tags":[1448,1197],"class_list":["post-135931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns","category-safety","category-school-daze","tag-classroom-safety","tag-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/unnamed-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31730,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/11\/public-safety-and-virtual-reality.html","url_meta":{"origin":135931,"position":0},"title":"Public safety and virtual reality","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Dec-12 9:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember way back when, when you had college kids playing \"assassin\" on campuses with dart guns, pulling all sorts of pranks to get to their assigned targets (other players), and how hilarity would ensue when the campus cops (or real ones) were called about \"prowlers\" with \"guns\"?Fast forward to today,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49224,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/guns-are-now-killing-more-people-in-the-us-than-cars.html","url_meta":{"origin":135931,"position":1},"title":"Guns are now killing more people in the US than cars","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Jan-15 11:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"America has been concerned over highway safety for decades, and have done all sorts of things to make our roadways safer. And, by gosh, it seems to be working.'According to data gathered by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), deaths caused by cars in America are in long-term decline. Improved\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136495,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/19\/on-guns-and-responsibility.html","url_meta":{"origin":135931,"position":2},"title":"On guns and responsibility","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 19-May-18 10:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim Wright, once again, nails the matter on the head.\u00a0If you own a device designed to kill, then you are responsible for making sure that doesn't happen. (Heck, we have a legal framework of responsibility at that level for devices we own that aren't designed to kill.) 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The issue is not background checks per se, but the rules that say, \"Well, if the background check is still pending in three days, the sale can provisionally go through, and if the check then comes back negative, we'll eventually send someone to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129407,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/08\/barack-obama-on-gun-safety.html","url_meta":{"origin":135931,"position":5},"title":"Barack Obama on gun safety","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jan-16 10:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, quite obviously the anti-American ravings of a tyrannical lunatic who is demanding (by, somehow, not demanding) that the federal government get to take away everyone's guns because only then can he establish a communist state. 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