Toni,

"When one of the drug crazed psychos that you're convinced lurks on every street corner [where did I say that?] bursts through your door with a machete"

Well, I'll meet him and disable him with my tightly furled umbrella, for preference, but if the brolly isn't in reach then I'll use my walking stick.

Dear Is Mise,

So you want each teacher armed with an easily acceptable weapon?

Given that the vast majority of school shooters are white, male, and mentally immature teenagers who attend the school what is to stop a physically large lad snapping then disarming a teacher, particularly a small diminutive one and using the weapon to settle an imagined or otherwise grievance?

How spectacularly idiotic this is.

You want to continue to foster a gun culture in this country and this is the future you would have for us.

Shame.

Steele,

"Given that the vast majority of school shooters are white, male, and mentally immature teenagers who attend the school what is to stop a physically large lad snapping then disarming a teacher, particularly a small diminutive one and using the weapon to settle an imagined or otherwise grievance?"

Stand in the corner, you obviously didn't take on the lesson about "Smart Guns".
http://www.thetrace.org/2017/03/new-armatix-smart-gun-law-enforcement/
http://www.publichealthlawwatch.org/blog/2017/10/11/smart-gun-technology-and-the-potential-to-save-lives

How spectacularly idiotic was that?.

Smart guns have been around for decades.

Dear Is Mise,

Oh good lord, you really are a gift that keeps giving my friend. You really should read your links.

“But developers faced vehement opposition, not from anti-gun activists pursuing a once-vocal push for individual disarmament but from very loud and very angry gun rights activists. Technology development withered.  Both Colt and Smith & Wesson abandoned federal grants for such projects after suffering a “revenue-crushing boycott” from their customers because of the research. Of course, the mere fact that the federal government administered such grants led some to question whether the money for public safety technology improvement was really “a smoke screen to eventually take all handguns that are not smart guns out of the hands of law-abiding U.S. Citizens...”

And what about this?
“A Maryland gun shop owner has dropped his plan to be the first in the United States to sell a so-called “smart gun” after a backlash that included death threats.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-maryland-smartgun/maryland-gun-store-drops-plans-to-sell-smart-guns-after-threats-idUSBREA410SD20140502

So what kind of smart gun are you advocating; fingerprints, watch, grip sequence?

Arming 3.6 million teachers with $1300 weapons is around 4.5 billion dollars. Add to that the required training and it could be doubled. So 9 billion dollars and take a long time to to roll out where as my suggestion could be done in weeks. Why do you want to put these kids at risk?

You are widening your knowledge base, Steele, and that's all to the good.
Now read about the schools that have armed teachers, there's plenty on Google.

You haven't given your opinion yet on the arming of special constables in NSW, such as those at Parramatta who probably saved a few lives by killing Mr Cheng's murderer.

Can you, or anyone else, guarantee that Islamic terrorists will not attack a school?

Dear Is Mise,

Once again I say answer the bloody question you flog. You are the one who wants to put a loaded weapon in every classroom.

"So what kind of smart gun are you advocating; fingerprints, watch, grip sequence?"