Stephan:   It is an article of faith to the NRA and gun proponents, that more guns make things safer. There is not a shred of evidence that this is true, and an already large, and still growing, corpus of research saying it is pernicious nonsense. Perhaps the most egregious manifestation of this zombie thinking is the scheme to arm teachers. There are so many wrong things about this idea it is hard to know where to start. Anyone who knows anything about combat knows that if one soldier only has a handgun, let's say your standard .45, and the other solider has an AK-47 or AR-15 rifle that the odds are overwhelming the rifle wielding soldier will win the day. The idea that a kindergarten teacher, or a sophomore algebra teacher is going to run out into a hallway packed with screaming frightened children running away from a killer, who is pumping out possibly hundreds of rounds, and pick the killer off as happens in movies is absolute nonsense. If you hear someone say we should arm teachers so that they can deter shooters, you know you are listening to a gun zombie. In a highly emotional adrenaline driven state it is very hard even for trained soldiers who are in their first combat engagements to hit anything. Why do you think when the police get into gun confrontations, even when the person they are firing on has no gun, that they fire so many rounds and that most splatter all over the scene, frequently hurting people who are just innocent bystanders? And these are trained police. It is all is just so much crap being put forward by the NRA and its dimwitted followers. And then there is this.