PORTLAND, Ore. – An analyst for the Brady Campaign – a leading gun control advocacy group – is suggesting “non-violent vocabulary training” as a means to stop school shooters.

Brady Campaign analyst Erin Thomas appeared in a panel discussion on “Your Voice, Your Vote,” a program by Portland, Oregon’s KATU news station to explain the problems that are supposedly contributing to terror attacks on schools in recent years.

“We’re not able to teach people how to prevent problems, how to think through things in a non-violent way,” Thomas told the news site. “There’s not even very much training in non-violent vocabulary being used in our schools.”

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Thomas’ comments have since sparked criticism from conservative sites like Progressives Today, and Laughing at Liberals.

Thomas, a mother of two children, one of which attends Portland Public Schools, said she also works for the War Prevention Initiative, which is “looking a lot at the militarization of our world.”

Thomas equates that work to her efforts to restrict gun ownership as a means of preventing school violence.

“You prevent less problems the more arsenal you have, versus preventing more problems,” she told KATU. “So guns don’t prevent violence, guns end up being the solution to violence, which causes more violence.

“And so, I think that could be taken from a global perspective right down to the classroom perspective,” she said. “More guns don’t prevent violence from breaking out.”

Thankfully, she has a solution.

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“What I would be most interested in seeing is somebody who has the legislative power to think through the issue … of making sure this discussion is elevated to include the root causes,” she said.

Those root causes are apparently tied to school funding and employment decisions, and non-violent vocabulary.

“My child is at a K-8 public education institution that does not have a full time school psychologist,” Thomas said. “If a teacher is having a problem that goes beyond their tool kit, at a very basic level we are not able to teach people how to prevent problems and think through things in a non-violent way.”

Thomas told the news station she thinks the time is right for lawmakers to “bring all of these ideas into play.”

“I absolutely think that’s what are lawmakers are going to do. I think they are going to bring all of these ideas into play and this is just the beginning of the discussion,” she said.

“The four of us here want nothing more than safe kids,” Thomas told the KATU panel. “And it’ just so great that society is ready to talk in a frank manner about that.”

Thomas also responded to an online comment from a KATU viewer that suggested arming teachers with bean bag rounds, Tasers or pepper spray to help protect students during a school shooting.

“I actually think in the case of Sandy Hook, something like a Taser would have probably done well,” Thomas said. “The main concern I have is that our teachers are able to focus on educating our children.”

“I don’t think it should be one of the requirements,” she added. “I think fear begets fear, violence begets violence, and education begets education.”

Conservative activist Bob Larimer then injected a little common sense into the conversation.

“Ask the president or a governor or a media personality or a rock star, anyone who has armed guards, if that would be okay with them,” he said. “The fact is, to stop unlawful deadly force, you need lawful deadly force.

“Before we get too deep in the weeds here, I want to point out the fact that the only reason we are having this discussion is because … school shooters defeat school security and somehow find their way into a classroom or building,” Larimer continued. “The other thing is, whatever the gun laws are, they violate multiple gun laws, so it doesn’t matter. They don’t care about gun laws.”

So despite the laws, and existing school security, gunmen are gaining access to children, and killing them, Larimer pointed out.

“There is only one solution, and that is trained, armed, conceal carry school personnel who can stop that shooter,” he said.