{"id":7968,"date":"2018-03-02T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T19:07:24","slug":"student-teacher-fires-gun-dare-tell-arming-teachers-will-make-us-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/student-teacher-fires-gun-dare-tell-arming-teachers-will-make-us-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Student After Teacher Fires Gun: &#8216;I Dare You to Tell Me Arming Teachers Will Make Us Safe&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"field-wrapper-attribution\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><span class=\"pb-timestamp\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">February 28, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<h4><span class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a Dalton High School student. Please don&#8217;t tell me a damn thing about arming teachers. Please don&#8217;t tell me that I don&#8217;t know what the hell I&#8217;m talking about.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0<span class=\"pb-byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/julia-conley-staff-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Julia Conley, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app-id=\"6840204\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-title=\"Student After Teacher Fires Gun: 'I Dare You to Tell Me Arming Teachers Will Make Us Safe'\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/02\/28\/student-after-teacher-fires-gun-i-dare-you-tell-me-arming-teachers-will-make-us-safe\" data-summary=\"\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope share_buttons\" translate=\"no\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui no-print flat  mini\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-animation-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-button-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"discourse-comments-link\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-img field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/headlines\/screen_shot_2018-02-28_at_4.05.06_pm.jpg?itok=MJtrnEM6\" alt=\"\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-main-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><em>Students were evacuated from Dalton High School in Dalton, Georgia on Wednesday after a teacher barricaded himself in a classroom and fired a gun. (Photo: @ajc\/Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Florida lawmakers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/florida-arm-teachers-school-shooting_us_5a96719ae4b0e6a52302c159\">advanced legislation<\/a>\u00a0this week to allow the state&#8217;s teachers to carry concealed weapons following the shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/02\/21\/neveragain-parkland-students-lead-thousands-rally-demand-gun-control-legislation\">earlier this month<\/a>, a teacher in neighboring Georgia reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/28\/us\/georgia-dalton-high-school-teacher-gunfire\/index.html\">fired a gun<\/a>\u00a0at a high school, forcing authorities to evacuate the school.<\/p>\n<p>Social studies teacher Jesse Randall Davidson allegedly barricaded himself in a classroom at Dalton High School with the handgun, refusing to let students in. The principal placed the school in lockdown and evacuated students and staff after Davidson fired one shot out of a window. After a 30-to-45 minute standoff with the police, Davidson was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;While it remains to be seen exactly what the teacher now in custody by the Dalton Police was doing with their gun, the incident will hopefully force some of those advocating for more guns in the classroom to reconsider.&#8221;\u2014Rafi Schwartz,\u00a0<em>Splinter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No one was injured when he fired the handgun, and police say there was no evidence that Davidson was attempting to shoot anyone. But critics of the recent Republican push to train and arm teachers say the case should be seen as clear evidence that mandating the presence of firearms in schools is no way to keep students safe and that legislators should focus on restricting access to firearms instead of proposing\u00a0<span class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\">to bring more weapons into schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the incident, Rafi Schwartz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/splinternews.com\/a-georgia-teacher-got-a-gun-and-surprise-surprise-it-di-1823397053\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<em>Splinter<\/em>\u00a0that &#8220;arming teachers is not only morally repugnant, but also that the proliferation of weapons in schools will only invite a wave of deadly accidents, misunderstandings, and overreactions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it remains to be seen exactly what the teacher now in custody by the Dalton Police was doing with their gun, the incident will hopefully force some of those advocating for more guns in the classroom to reconsider,&#8221; added Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, students at Dalton High School also spoke out, echoing the teenagers from Parkland, Florida who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/02\/15\/emotional-student-victims-lash-out-piece-shit-trump-wake-latest-school-massacre\">immediately<\/a>\u00a0demanded strict gun control legislation in the wake of the shooting at their high school on Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-cta-change\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content-prompt clearfix\">\n<div data-cta-slim-header=\"&lt;i class='fa fa-info-circle'&gt;&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Did you find this article useful? &lt;\/strong&gt; Support our journalism.&lt;a href='https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/free-and-independent?refcode=winter18_cta2' target='_blank' class='btn text-center'&gt;Donate Today&lt;\/a&gt;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"slim-header-content\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" data-cta-slim-header=\"&lt;i class='fa fa-info-circle'&gt;&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Did you find this article useful? &lt;\/strong&gt; Support our journalism.&lt;a href='https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/free-and-independent?refcode=winter18_cta2' target='_blank' class='btn text-center'&gt;Donate Today&lt;\/a&gt;\"><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 28, 2018\u00a0by Common Dreams &#8220;I&#8217;m a Dalton High School student. Please don&#8217;t tell me a damn thing about arming teachers. Please don&#8217;t tell me that I don&#8217;t know what the hell I&#8217;m talking about.&#8221; by\u00a0Julia Conley, staff writer Students were evacuated from Dalton High School in Dalton, Georgia on&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/student-teacher-fires-gun-dare-tell-arming-teachers-will-make-us-safe\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7969,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions\/7969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}