March 7, 2018
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Rebuke to Arming Teachers
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Portland’s police officers and pub-
lic school teachers.
Daryl Turner, the president of
the Portland Police Association,
said that such a move would pose
serious risks and likely add to
the chaos and confusion during a
school shooting.
“In an active shooter incident,
having teachers running around
a school with guns while law
enforcement enters the building
could make it difficult for us to
differentiate between the good
guys and the bad guys. It would
increase the risk of innocent peo-
ple—children, other teachers, and
police officers—being injured or
killed,” Turner said.
Portland Association of Teach-
ers President and educator Su-
zanne Cohen told the Portland
Observer Tuesday that arming
teachers still operates under the
assumption that mass shootings
in schools and other public places
is considered normal.
“When I was a kid in school,
we didn’t practice hiding in clos-
ets. When I started my teach-
ing career, we didn’t have these
drills,” Cohen said.
“We all need to stop being un-
comfortable to talk about ending
gun violence. It’s not political
to end gun violence, we need to
work together to figure that out.”
Cohen said that instead of arm-
ing teachers, assault rifle bans
and common sense legislation
should be put in place to mitigate
tragedies in the future.
President Trump and the Na-
tional Rifle Association are call-
ing for arming pro-gun teachers
in response to the mass shooting
at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
where 17 were killed with an AR-
15, semi-automatic assault rifle
last month.
Turner said that because a
teacher’s job is to educate chil-
dren, “It would be hard for the
vast majority to quickly be-
come highly skilled marksmen
equipped for a confusing, rapidly
unfolding crisis.”
ABC News also reported last
week that a recent study conduct-
ed from the National Bureau of
Economic Research discredited
the “good guy with a gun” solu-
tion to gun violence. It showed
that, in states that had laws allow-
ing citizens to carry handguns, an
increase of 13 to 15 percent in vi-
olent crimes occurred by the 10th
year.
A study conducted by the FBI
in 2014 also showed that, be-
tween the years 2000 and 2013,
most civilians who safely stopped
a mass shooter were unarmed.
Turner, who also represents
a bi-partisan law enforcement
advocacy group, calls on law-
makers to ban gun modification
equipment that can make weap-
ons more deadly, enhance sen-
tences for those who commit
mass shootings, and enforce ex-
isting gun laws.
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aka Big Stan, passed away on his 67th birthday, Feb.
5, 2018 in Vancouver. He was born in Shreveport,
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In 1981, he married Denise, and together they
raised their two daughters, Talischia and Sharnelle.
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