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| quote: | Originally posted by bigsnail
enough is enough. can everybody plz stop talking about Nazis, Iraq, and whatever else crap youre talking about that has nothing to do w/ the thread title. its entertaining and everything, but damn.
The question is, should teachers be able to bring guns to school?
I say hell no. i dont even like guns to begin with. plus i was always pissing my teachers off.....wouldnt want one of them to pop a cap in my ass  |
Ofcourse they should NOT be able to carry guns, the people who thought of the current policy possibly suffer from heavy mental disabilities (or plane stupidity!).
If we take into account the classic behavioural psychology of Albert Bandura and the important effects of "modeling" processes and "observational learning" on children's social development, we can predict thet the current policy could have catastrophic effects. In simple words, if children and teenagers observe their own teachers carry guns they could easily deduce that gun carriage "must be a correct thing to do" and that carrying a gun "For the purposes of self-defense is correct". Ofcourse the boundaries between "self-defense" and "aggression" is generally thin and gets even thinner in the younger minds in which higher mental processes (such as moral issues, the identity of the self, the role of the self within a complex social environment etc.)haven't matured and testosterone runs wild.
I don't think that one ever needs to draw from basic psychological processes in order to understand the common sense:
That more violence leads to more violence, more aggression leads to more aggression and that an increase in the number of people who support such policies would inevitably lead to an increse in the number of people who shoot other people for whatever reason-be it for "Self-protection" (although this is a very vague concept which can be distorted) or a typical bank-robbery.
These social processes emerge in vicious circles and it is surprising (i would say "Crazy") how goverments can't see that. I guess that even goverments are part of their own system.
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