LETTER How would a teacher fare in a gunfight?
How would a teacher fare in a gunfight?
I have many friends who are schoolteachers. I was also a friend and co-worker of Vicky Armel, a police detective in Fairfax County, Va.
Armel was a firearms instructor. Vicky had a blue expert pistol badge. To get a blue badge, you have to hit five consecutive perfect targets, qualifying every six months.
A mentally unstable man attacked Armel’s precinct in 2006 with an AK-47 assault rifle. Armel engaged the man in the parking lot with her SIG Sauer 9 mm pistol. She left behind a 4-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son.
President Trump thinks a shooter will not enter a school if he knows some teachers have guns. The man in Fairfax Va., was willing to go into a police precinct to kill policemen, and he knew all of the police would have guns. Not to demean schoolteachers, but if Armel, with all of her training, had no chance with her pistol against someone using an assault rifle, what chance would a schoolteacher with some limited training have?
Emil “Lenny” Luongo
Washington