Your Daily Shot and Chaser

By Dustin Rowles | Politics | February 28, 2018 |

By Dustin Rowles | Politics | February 28, 2018 |

Shot:

Florida's Republican-controlled appropriations committee has approved a $67 million "school marshal" program to give 10 teachers per school 132 hours of training to carry guns, and give armed teachers $500 bonuses: https://t.co/6ZmmCYIP79 pic.twitter.com/Mub8hfvKbE

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 28, 2018

Chaser:

BREAKING: Police in Georgia respond to shots fired at high school and have taken a teacher into custody; no children hurt.

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 28, 2018

But let’s also talk about that Florida bill for a second. One hundred and thirty-two hours of training breaks down to around 3 weeks of workdays.

For $500.

Paid once.

Not even yearly.

No money has been allotted for the purchase of guns. That decision will be left to each locality, which will have to add the purchase of ten handguns to its chalk and whiteboard budget. And for $500 — paid once! — that teacher will also be expected to run toward a mass shooter and engage with him, handgun vs. AR-15, which is to say: The teacher is going to sacrifice her life for the opportunity to get off one shot.

For $500.

And you know who is going to take the school up on these offers first, right? The trigger-happy gun nuts, which means there will probably be even more incidences like this:

BREAKING: Police in Georgia respond to shots fired at high school and have taken a teacher into custody; no children hurt.

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 28, 2018

Teachers are not security guards. They are not school marshals. They are teachers. Their job is to teach students, not sacrifice their lives to protect them from madmen. For $500.