Friday, February 23, 2018

David Leonhardt
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist


"First, guns. There are several promising ways to reduce gun deaths in the United States, as Nick Kristof has explained. Arming the nation’s teachers is, of course, not one of them.
As the civil-rights activist Michael Skolnik tweeted yesterday:

“A teacher with a gun wouldn’t have saved:

Vegas: a concert
Orlando: a nightclub
Sutherland Springs: a church
Aurora: a movie theater
Gabby Giffords: a parking lot
Trayvon Martin: a neighborhood
Mike Brown: a cop”

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