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Should teachers be allowed to carry guns at school?

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Yes
96%
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3%
Yes
93%
No
1%
Yes, schools should require at least one teacher or security guard to be armed
2%
No, hire professionally trained security guards instead
1%
No, this would increase the risk of accidental shootings

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Unique answers from New Zealand voters whose views went beyond the provided options.

 @9HK9YD6 answered…1yr1Y

The teachers not given a final ends of independent incident with students rips by legs seats legend former US president Donald Trump and former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoping understand the mind of change

 @9G4P4VJanswered…1yr1Y

I don't think there should be guns at any school, but if there was a threat having trained security that do not carry guns would be a better option

 @9FNGXQVanswered…2yrs2Y

no, unless this actual becomes an issue in our school but right now that is unnecessary

 @9FL9LG3answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, provided they have training on how to safely use a weapon

 @9FJLYVQanswered…2yrs2Y

most teachers are too stupid to even know how to use a gun, let alone who to use it on!

 @9FJK229answered…2yrs2Y

No, implement gun control laws on a national level to decrease shootings

 @9FD4HC2answered…2yrs2Y

No, this would be an absolute disaster and hardly anyone would support this in Aotearoa or most countries except the USA

 @9FB734Lanswered…2yrs2Y

WHo the heck came up with this quiz? Talk about americanism and world views being introduced. Dumb

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2mos2MO

Police "Didn't Return Fire" In Sweden Mass Shooting

It was about 12:30 p.m. on a gray Tuesday in Orebro, Sweden, when gunfire erupted at an adult education center, with students and teachers in class. Minutes later, as an alarm wailed, the police charged into the center, Campus Risbergska, where they encountered a chaotic, smoke-filled scene. It would be hours before they gave an all-clear.“An inferno. Dead people. Injured people. Screams and smoke,” Lars Wiren, Orebro’s police chief, said Thursday at a news conference as he described the scene.When officers entered the school on Tuesday, it was filled with smoke from pyrotechnics, Mr. Wiren said. The police came under a hail of gunfire so intense that officers could not tell how many shooters were on the scene, he added. Through the smoke, officers saw a man approaching them and carrying what appeared to be a rifle.The man continued to shoot, emptying several magazines of ammunition. In the chaos, none of the 130 police officers chose to return fire, the police chief said.“You have to respect the situation. There’s panic among the students, the teachers,” Mr. Wiren said. “There’s smoke. The circumstances must be right in order to fire.”After about an hour, officers later found the gunman among the dead. Near his body were three weapons, including the rifle. Scattered nearby were at least 10 empty magazines and unused ammunition, Mr. Wiren said.Police officers fanned out across the four-acre campus, searching for victims and possibly more perpetrators in an operation that lasted over three hours, according to a police timeline of events.In one of the classrooms, Hellen Werme and other students hid for at least two hours under tables and hospital beds used for training. As soon as shots rang out, they locked the door and hid on the far side of the room, she said. At one point, they heard the gunman pass by.“We were very quiet. He was close,” Ms. Werme, 35, recalled a day later. “I could hear his steps, but then the shots were further and further away.”