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WEST PLAINS, Mo. — At 8:30 on a cloudy, frigid morning late last month in this folksy Ozark town, the superintendent of an area school strolled through the glass doors of the local newspaper office to deliver a news release. Hours later, the content of that release produced a front-page headline in The West Plains Daily Quill that caught residents off guard: “At Fairview School Some Employees Now Carry Concealed Weapons.” That was how most parents of Fairview students learned that the school had trained some of its staff members to carry weapons, and the reaction was loud — and...

Son of Doomonyou 12/12/02 Ms. Tay Freshman Honors English Gun Control: Why it Should Never Happen “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” That comes from the bill of rights, which is part of the constitution, the document that our country was founded on. Yet somehow, people now consider guns to be a liability issue, to be dangerous, and flat out wrong. So what do people want to do? They want to take away the guns that we are granted...