Оружие в школы
Feb. 24th, 2018 01:19 pm
Трамп предложил вооружать учителей для предотвращения нападений в школах
Выступая вчера на конференции консерваторов, Дональд Трамп напомнил, что накануне принял участие во встрече со школьниками и членами семей погибших во время стрельбы в школе городка Паркленд, штат Флорида. По мнению президента США, предотвратить новые трагедии можно, вооружив учителей и персонал учебных заведений.
«Когда мы объявляем наши школы «зонами, свободными от оружия», это еще больше угрожает нашим школьникам, — сказал Дональд Трамп. — Хорошо подготовленные и готовые взять оружие учителя и тренеры (школьных спортивных команд) должны иметь право на скрытое ношение оружия».
В минувший четверг Трамп уточнил, что для защиты школьников было бы достаточным, если бы оружие было у 20% школьных учителей.
Он также призвал ввести новые, более жесткие правила проверки потенциальных покупателей оружия, разрешив приобретение полуавтоматического оружия с 21 года. Сейчас в некоторых штатах США винтовки могут покупать те, кому уже исполнилось 18 лет.
Инициативу о повышении возраста потенциальных покупателей полуавтоматического оружия уже поддержала влиятельная Нациальная стрелковая ассоциация (NRA). В 2016 году организация, насчитывающая более 5 миллионов членов, пожертвовала на избирательную кампанию Дональда Трампа $11 млн.

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Date: 2018-02-24 10:29 am (UTC)Let me tell you guys about my personal experience shooting accurately and shooting accurately under stress and how it relates to this "let's arm teachers" debate.
I was an "expert" shot in the Army. Which means I went to a range with no gear on, walked to my station, layed down prone and fired at stationary targets between 50 and 300m away.
Sounds pretty impressive, right?
Well, it's not.
Because right before I got out I went on what's called a "stress shoot."
Basically, imagine wearing 40lbs of gear and doing a five minute cross fit workout, then dragging a 50lb sled to a position where you then had to shoot accurately.
You're heart is racing, you're sweating, your hands are shaking. You're exhausted. You have to shoot standing up.
I shot at 20 targets. I think I may have hit one. Maybe.
And I'm the supposed "expert" shot.
Shooting under stress is extremely difficult. Even for the most well-trained shooters. A teacher is not going to be able to do this. A lunch lady is not going to be able to do this. Cops & soldiers literally get paid to do this & most of them can't shoot accurately under stress.
Not because they suck, but because it's nearly impossible to hit a target in one shot when pumped full of adrenaline. And if you're in a school with a shooter and dozens of children, if you're not shooting accurately you're just creating crossfire.
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Date: 2018-02-24 10:29 am (UTC)The first (and only) time I was in close-quarter combat, I got tunnel vision. It happened so fast that when I went to squeeze the trigger, my safety was still on. In that instant, I almost panicked, thinking my weapon had jammed. Then the training kicked in. I flipped the selector switch to semi and started shooting.
It was over in seconds. My full field of vision returned, and an otherwise quiet evening in northern Iraq became bodies, broken glass, empty shell casings and ringing ears.
Seven years of training led up to that moment. How to react had been drilled into me. And still, I was caught so off guard by the attack that my reflexes had failed initially. It was nearly fatal.
I wasn’t perfect that night, but my years of training — our years of training, in the military — helped get us through the moment. Without it, the situation wouldn’t have been survivable. [...]
We hear this over and over. In speaking Wednesday, the President said, “If the coach had a firearm in his locker when he ran at this guy ... he would have shot and that would be the end of it.”
Unfortunately you just can’t make that assumption. It’s not as easy as it looks on TV.
There were armed guards at Columbine, the Pulse nightclub and in Las Vegas at the time of the massacre. At Parkland too. Time and again, armed civilians or security guards are out-maneuvered, out-gunned and too inexperienced. It’s difficult for a rational person to reach a state where they can go toe-to-toe with an armed psychopath who has nothing to lose. I was professionally trained and still almost blew it at the moment of truth.
If armed security guards often don’t stop shootings, teachers have no chance.
Here’s why: Instructing a teacher in how to use a gun does very little. Guns aren’t magical objects that turn a person into a skilled warrior, no matter how proficient one is at marksmanship.
Gun fighting is less about the weapon and more about a state of mind. It’s about will. The will to assert yourself over — and kill — your armed adversary who wants to kill you. Developing this mental skill takes months or years of dedicated training, and a singular focus that teachers don’t, and shouldn’t, have.
Teaching someone to handle a gun is a very different skill from teaching them how to fight. People who haven’t fought (or at least been trained to fight) often seem to miss this completely.
Пара иллюстраций к тому, что говорят эти военные.
У школы во Флориде был вооруженный полицейский. Но он решил остаться на улице, вместо того, чтобы зайти в здание и попытаться остановить убийцу.
Stoneman Douglas school resource officer stayed outside as shooting unfolded, sheriff says:
The school resource deputy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, waited outside the school building as the shooting unfolded last week, officials said.
Scot Peterson never went in after taking a position on the west side of the building, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a Thursday afternoon news conference.
Peterson resigned after he was suspended without pay by Israel pending an internal investigation into his actions during the shooting that left 17 people dead, Israel said. Peterson was eligible for retirement.
Israel made the decision to suspend Peterson -- who was armed and in uniform at the time of the shooting -- after interviewing the deputy and reviewing footage and witness statements, he said.
"What I saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of building 12, take up a position," Israel said of the video. "And he never went in."
Но это ж вооруженный полицейский, которому именно за эту работу деньги платят. Учитель пения, будь у него оружие, наверняка прибежал бы на звуки выстрелов и моментально уложил террориста. Ну, если не учитель пения, то учитель географии уж точно.
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Date: 2018-02-24 10:19 am (UTC)Естественно, возникает ряд вопросов: how littlе и, собственно, почему little?
Десять тысяч, как предлагает один из самых видных мыслителей современности, Скотт Адамс? Сто тысяч, как предлагаю, допустим, я? По сто долларов на нос?
За физическую подготовку, кстати, бонусы давать будут? Это не абсурдное предложение совершенно. Потому что если ты 70-year old stable genius who weighs 300 pounds, то пока ты добежишь до соседнего кабинета туда уже прибудет спецназ. Который, кстати, может в момент и не разобраться за какую сторону ты выступаешь.
Понятно, что сам Трамп над этим всем не думал. Он, как обычно, начал говорить и не может остановиться -- одно слово цепляется за другое, и вот мы уже обсуждаем систему бонусов.
С бонусом разберутся.
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Date: 2018-02-24 10:40 am (UTC)Скажи своей матери-шлюхе, пидар гнойный, чтобы она гандонами пользовалась, когда ее ишаки ебут и не хлобыстала из своей гнойной пизды генетический мусор вроде тебя