My wife has been getting battered on both Facebook and the Backyard Chicken blog -- yes a chicken blog -- by actual "gun nuts". These people are worse than any of the RKBA members here, just to give you the sense of scale.
They, like that asshole Rep. Gohmert, think the answer is arming teachers. Because, somehow, that'd make things better.
OK. How are they going to pay for it?
The M4 rifle that Rep. Gohmert so glibbly talked about runs around $1000, even a "modestly priced" new gun is hundreds of dollars. There are 6.2 million teachers in the US. Just buying the guns, let alone providing training, ammunition, safe storage facilities, etc. would run into the BILLIONS of dollars -- TAX dollars. And with the associated expenses that would probably top tens of billion just to initiate the plan. Then there are the year over year costs of on going training, maintainance, etc. So more billions over the years to keep this fevered dream of theirs in place.
Almost everyone of these assholes are Tea Party "Taxed Enough Already" zealots. So, NRA, are you willing to fund this crazy assed idea out of your own pockets or are you going to get the "hard-working 'Merkican people" to pay more taxes for it?
Yeah, I bet the answer is neither. So fuck off, NRA, you lying sacks of crap.
Oh, and if you think the Tea Party really wants millions of armed teachers who might be minorities, or vote Democratic, or belong to unions I've got the title to this bridge you might be interested in. So a big "Fuck you!" goes out to the lying assholes in the Tea Party as well. Even lying-ier (??) sacks of crappier (??)