Ohio set to allow teachers, other staff to carry guns

Yeah, schools - especially in these states that are promoting armed teachers - are already under funded, so I assume that these pro-guns-in-school states will be requiring teachers to buy their own guns, pay for their own training, etc.

There have already been numerous cases of teachers and "school resource"/police officers beating kids, I'm sure adding a gun won't go wrong.

Now for your repeat of the facetious claims that an AR-15 is not "automatic". An "consumer" AR-15 is ArmaLite's realization that by making a semi-automatic trigger pull killing weapon - an AR-15 is not a self defence weapon - they could make a huge profit from wannabe Rambos. But it's still automatic. I've used plenty of non-automatic weapons on many occasions (if you need to be able to shoot lots of time when hunting, you need to learn to shoot), and there is no way that I could ever get any of those rifles to anywhere in the vicinity of 45/minute.

I don't care if a weapon is fully- or semi- automatic, it's automatic.

The purpose of an AR-15 is to kill people. The "Semi" automatic mode fires at 45 rounds a minute, which is more than needed for self defense or hunting (unless you suck at it). That's ignoring bump stocks, which pro-school shooting folk are still trying to make legal again.

In this context, “well-regulated” meant “in good working order” - not literally regulated by a governing body.

More guns than people down south. Open border, basically, with US, leading increased smuggling. Trying to keep the ability to shoot-to-kill down in agreement with the rest of the G-7. There's enough issues with the cultural exports of the US, so it makes sense to head off some of the less desirable features.

Ideally, they'll couple the reduction of gun availability with an increase in mental health treatment, but the different approach to health care helps a little.

The texas and Oklahoma shootings were done with legally-purchased guns that were almost immediately used as designed. As a news article said, it's easier to purchase AR-15's than sudafeds. So, reducing the availability of legal weaponry will have some positive impact on the scale of casualties. It might also reduce the number of accidental or suicide deaths as it's harder with lower-lethality weaponry.

It would not impact the 2nd amendment rights to limit the high-end/military style weaponry to some degree. But nothing will be done until there is a sufficient societal change to even consider such restrictions. Won't see that in my lifetime. Hell, some kind of waiting period or red flag law would help.