Guns, teachers, and self-defense(ma)

Boston Globe ^ | 28 December, 2009 | DOUG VAN GORDER

[marktwain]

I AM a math teacher at Brockton High School, the site of a school shooting earlier this month. --------------------cut---------------------------- An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets, it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others.

Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful. A level barrel is fair to all fish. -------------------------------cut------------------------ But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.

[marktwain]

It is good for people like this to expose their beliefs for all to see. No wonder public schools are in such bad shape.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Reads like good sarc to me. YMMV

[NonLinear]

That guy is a moran!

[arkady_renko]

But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime. "Sorry Sally, Daddy is criminally insane. You have to die so I can appear appear to be superior. "

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Reads like good sarc to me. YMMV

To me also but even at that it indicates the kind of discussions going on and how idiotic some of his colleagues are.

[pnh102]

And they want us to send our children to these killing fields.

[fredhead]

Hey Doug!!!! Click this link!!!

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[Jemian]

He's also a moron.

But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.

I am glad he is neither my father nor my husband. There is nobody's child is more important to me than my child!

[TexasRedeye]

Where's the BARF in the title?

[Shimmer1]

There are no words to say for this tripe, but wanted you to read it anyway.

[MSF BU]

Yes, I am guessing this is sarcasm. I hope it is anyway.

[rickmichaels]

My child is about to be murdered in front of me by some psycho. I am holding a loaded gun in my hand. Gee, what do I do next?

[libertarian27]

Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful. A level barrel is fair to all fish.

It's GOT to be satire, I hope it's satire - can't tell anymore.

[PeteB570]

He’s a typical libs - willing to let others die for his beliefs.

My kids go to lockdown schools. I told all of them if the school goes into lockdown and they hear the sounds of shooting, they know I take them shooting, coming down the hallway, throw a desk through the window and run like all get out. I’ll pay for the window.

[BilLies]

“I AM a math teacher at Brockton High School...”

The problem with some teachers is that most of their waking hours are spent relative to persons who are less educated and less experienced than themselves; and because of this disparity, these teachers think they are more intelligent than other adults who live in a real, competitive world.

[Condor51]

DOUG VAN GORDER
I AM a math teacher .... But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.

Aww Doug, caught your fib. As a progressive you don't have any kids.
But since you ARE a 'math teacher' maybe you'll appreciate this ditty...

Well 1 an 1 are 2
2 an 6 are 8
C'mon baby can ya' multiplicate.
Hidy hey! ...baby don't ya wanna go,
Back to that same ole place,
Sweet lord, a Gun-Show!

You can buy Tech-9s for all the kiddies.

[libertarian27]

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=66163

His writings sound like they are coming right out of ‘The People’s Cube’

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Keep diversity at all costs?
Stars and Stripes
Letters to the Editor, Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Immediately after the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, the Army’s top officer, Gen. George Casey, said, “As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”

The general is spot on.

There is no more precious national cause than the continued creation and veneration of diversity. Diversity trumps the safety and lives of our soldiers, ourselves and our children. The deaths of 13 brave men and women constitute a tragic loss, but we can take comfort in knowing that their lives were given in the name of protecting Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s right to remain a member in good standing of the American military.

It is entirely appropriate that the Army never acted upon suspicions raised by Hasan’s earlier, perhaps troubling to some, behavior. It is appropriate because — and we must continually restate this as almost a mantra until progressivism sets our collective heart in the right place — he is an American whose very presence completes our national identity. And although we deplore the acts of violence Hasan allegedly committed, we deeply cherish his contribution to America’s diversity.

Doug Van Gorder

[libertarian27]

Another one
~snip~
Better to spread rights, slightly thinned, than to hoard them even for our own children. Thankfully, our president values global equality, underscored each time he rightfully bows before world leaders in symbolic atonement for our disproportionate quality of life.

DOUG VAN GORDER
http://www.wickedlocal.com/quincy/news/opinions/letters/x1599182261/YOUR-OPINION-Better-to-spread-rights-than-to-hoard-them

[IronJack]

I wonder if the child he so readily offers as a sacrifice is equally enthusiastic.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I refuse to believe that this is genuine and not satire... Nobody could be this f*witted and still holding down a job...