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Students back gun-toting teacher
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^
| Tuesday, March 4, 2003
| Reid R. Frazier
Posted on 03/04/2003 9:11:59 AM PST by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:02:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Students of Anthony Sarkis expressed hope Monday that the Shaler Area High School English teacher won't lose his job for bringing a pistol to school.
"I'd feel bad for him if he lost his job over this," said senior Greg Miller, 18, of Shaler. Miller said he took a media literacy class with Sarkis two years ago. "He was a really good teacher. He gets along with kids really well. He made sure you knew your stuff."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist
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To: Willie Green
Liberalism is evil.
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:13:04 AM PST
by
moyden
To: Willie Green; *bang_list
indexing
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:16:02 AM PST
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: harpseal
Slightly OT, but how do you get a list of posts to the bang list?
I used to be able to use the search term "to:bang_list*" but that dosen't appear to work anymore.
To: Willie Green
This teacher ought to get the National Medal of Freedom, since he demostrated that he was willing to protect our children if they fell under attack at school.
What "fools" these adults are that think that a police station ten miles distant will keep their children alive is a crazy gun owning criminal shows up to shoot. If he is that far gone you think he will have a gun license?
What absolute stupidity. They ought to put liberals in jail and charge them with treason to the state.
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:22:09 AM PST
by
RISU
To: Willie Green
The other teachers and administrators should have ~thanked~ him for bringing it, behind closed doors if they had to.
To: NY.SS-Bar9
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:23:30 AM PST
by
harpseal
(Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
To: Willie Green
Gally said police were called to the school after other teachers found the gun. So his colleagues ratted him out to the police instead of just taking the gun and finding out whose it was. Very nice.
To: Willie Green
PS: If pilots get guns to defend against hijack, how come teachers don't get them to thwart Columbines?
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:24:05 AM PST
by
RISU
To: LurkedLongEnough
YOU are reading my brain - when I volunteered in my grandson's school is when I felt MOST vulnerable!
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:24:22 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Thank the Military for your freedom and security....and thank a Rich person for jobs.)
To: Willie Green
From the article: "We'll probably file charges, but we feel it was an honest mistake that he made," Gally said. "Severe as it is, he really didn't know that the gun was there."
Another person caught keeping and bearing arms.
Too bad one of the Columbine teachers didn't have a gun in a backpack so that they could have tried protecting our nation's children instead of cowering under desks.
To: harpseal; NY.SS-Bar9
Placing *bang_list (including the asterisk) in the "Find in Forum" search box on "latest posts", and modifying the selection to indicate "by poster" seems to work as well.
To: RISU
Your analogy makes perfect sense to me. However, I would dare say that most teachers wouldn't know the difference between a shotgun and a piece of chicken.
Those who lack knowledge of guns are likely to fear and avoid them. Just like those who lack knowledge of computers do the same.
To: RISU
"If pilots get guns to defend against hijack, how come teachers don't get them to thwart Columbines?"As much as I believe in the right to keep and carry, I pause at the thought of giving the full right of concealed carry to any unionized teacher.
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posted on
03/04/2003 9:51:31 AM PST
by
NetValue
(Saddam is a threat to the future of the world as we know it.)
To: Willie Green
My guidance counselor used to pack heat in school. Told me so himself. Had one on him, and another in his glove box.
And so did my girlfriend. She used to carry a semi-auto in her book bag. Myself, I carried a 4 inch dagger with an ivory handle (yes, real ivory, inherited from my great granddad). Why not? Who knows when you might need it? And I could whittle sticks on my walk home.
Madison, WI - West High School - I won't give the years to protect the innocent, but it was not ancient days by any means.
To: Willie Green
The weapon is licensed and registered to Sarkis, who inherited it from his father, Shaler police Chief Jeff Gally said. I wonder what this means? Pennsylvania, by law, has no such thing as a "registered" weapon.
SD
To: Willie Green
What he should get charged with is negligence. Specifically for not keeping his weapon secured and/or in his possesion at all times.
Is he that careless to NOT know which bag he left it in? Obviously in this case the teachers lounge is not a secure location. If not his car, then perhaps a handy locker might have been a better choice.
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posted on
03/04/2003 10:08:18 AM PST
by
pmatulew
To: NY.SS-Bar9
Put the asterisk at the beginning, not the end.
To: SoothingDave
I wonder what this means? Pennsylvania, by law, has no such thing as a "registered" weapon.I suspect it may refer to a permit for concealed carry.
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:34:17 AM PST
by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
To: Willie Green
I suspect it may refer to a permit for concealed carry. Yes, that would be the "license." The "registered" means they ran it through the illegal State Police database, likely.
SD
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