Colion Noir Breaks Down a PragerU Interview on Arming Teachers

In this video, Colion Noir breaks down a viral PragerU street interview in which a college student opposes letting teachers carry guns, then changes his answer when asked which classroom he would want to be in during a mass shooting.

Snapshot

Colion Noir dissects a PragerU street interview where a student who opposed armed teachers picked the classroom with an armed professor when given the choice, and explains that the idea means trained, voluntary carry under clear rules. Noir argues physical barriers only delay an attacker, that a ban would disarm the wrong people, and that policy should follow the student's honest answer.

Key points

• The opening answer: the student said no to armed teachers because he supports broader gun control, without explaining how an armed teacher would make a classroom less safe.
• What the proposal is: Noir says it means giving teachers the option to carry, with required training hours, clear standards and protocols for carrying inside a school, not handing every teacher a pistol.
• Classroom A or B: asked whether he would rather be with a professor who has a gun or in a room where everyone just has a cell phone to call 911, he answered, "Yeah, I mean, obviously Classroom A."
• Layers of defense: Noir accepts metal detectors, reinforced doors and better locks as mitigation, but says they only delay a determined attacker, so a fail-safe inside the room is still needed.
• The endpoint: he argues that if every incremental measure falls short, the only consistent position left is a ban, and that with more guns than people in the country a ban would only disarm people who were never the problem.

Quick take

Colion Noir credits the student for answering honestly and argues that policy should be built around that answer, Classroom A, not the abstraction that came before it.

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