Posted on 10/15/2007 3:55:00 AM PDT by tcostell
“Should properly trained and licensed teachers be allowed to carry guns into their classrooms?” That’s the $64k question being tossed around this week (once again) after Satan’s latest spawn, Asa Coon, stooge emeritus, decided to shoot up his Cleveland high school’s teachers and classmates this week. How about, yes teachers should be allowed to lock and load because not being able to doesn’t seem to be working.
As far as I’m concerned, a responsible and trained teacher should ab-so-frickin’-lutely be able to carry on campus.
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Teachers who know how to handle a weapon safely should pack heat.
The crazy killer students, not to mention the terrorists, don’t give a rip about “gun free school zones.”
I wonder how many teachers actually carried or were allowed to carry before the federal ban under Clinton.
John Lott has commented on this in a vague and legalistic manner, e.g. in some states a teacher could carry and in others they couldn’t, but that doesn’t say much.
Anyone have any sense of the actual number who really did keep a firearm in the purse or jacket pocket?
I would vote for trying taser guns first. You know those three days in August when all the teachers have to show up for “teacher work days”. Instead of some of the psychological, political correctness crap that they spend time on, I would love to see a half-day session on “How to Taser a Shooter”!
(It's true that right now many of us are also being denied that right ... but it's my belief that I'll live to see the end of that)
Its an idea but I’m dead serious that we should stop sitting around and waiting for the next disaster.
Schools in my area are beginning to put police officers in but only one here or there, usually in the high schools.
They often sit in security camera monitoring rooms so if someone starts shooting its already too late to prevent people from being hit.
Get some more weapons “on the ground” and in the hands of teachers who know how to use them properly.
Even the maintenance and custodial staffs in many schools have experienced shooters-hunters who could handle guns the right way.
We need to be ready for the crazies and the next 9/11, which could come to a school.
Also, firearms—especially the revolver—are safe and ridiculously easy to shoot. Any ‘training’ should be in the myriad and crazy laws involved in self-defense.
To quote Robert Heinlen:
“An armed society is a polite society”
And, not all teachers would have to carry guns all the time. If no one knows, who is going to be foolish enough to find out?
I get that it’s sarcasm, but your comments still confuse me a little.
taser? when somebody’s shooting at you to kill, you don’t have time for a taser to take effect. nor do you have the ability to get within range.
when it’s you or them, you want THEM down and fast. a couple fo seconds to get a taser jolt means bye bye.
What did the "federal ban" under clinton have to do with CCW? Other than the capacity of the mags.
The "federal ban" under Clinton - otherwise known as the Gun Free Zones Act of 1996 - made it a federal felony to have/possess/carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of a public school.
Very thin exceptions were made for CCW holders, but that was not my point and I don't know why you brought it up.
What are they going to do, shoot the attacker? I get a big picture of this.
“Why exactly is it that you think teachers should be denied a right the rest of us have?”
LOL! Yes, we all have the right to pack in government buildings. You betcha! Those metal detectors I used to walk through at work were to make sure I didn’t leave my keys in my truck.
We do in Virginia, with the exception of courthouses.
Wow. That’s alright.
I brought it up for that very reason....I didn't know WHAT your point was. Sheesh, I guess people can't ask questions any more.
It almost feels like a different forum.
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