When I heard that a six-year-old child in Newport News, Virginia, brought a gun from home into his school and then shot his first-grade teacher in the middle of a lesson last Friday, I felt something shift in my worldview as an educator.In the United States, we know that school shootings have mired the teaching profession in an ongoing state of crisis. We know that our state and federal politicians refuse to do anything about it beyond offering useless thoughts and prayers.We know that a vocal portion of the population would rather see teachers and students die violently in their classrooms than imagine a nation without guns, often citing incoherent and antiquated arguments about our right to a well-regulated militia. These groups conveniently forget that the Second Amendment was introduced when the most dangerous weapons at our founders’ disposal were muskets and flintlock pistols.
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