Texas County Legalizes Conceal and Carry For Teachers

[Strike For The South]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/15/gun...=ib_topstories

Why are the rest of you always a step behind us?

[Xiahou]

Good.

It isn't clear how many of the 50 or so teachers and staff members will be armed this fall, because Thweatt did not disclose that information, to keep it from students or potential attackers.

Also good.

[Viking]

A tiny Texas school district

Since you asked.

[Gregoshi]

Raising your hands in school - not just for answering questions anymore...

[Tribesman]

How sad is that .
It really comes to something when a society is that screwed up and scared that it feels the need to have armed teachers .

[CountArach]

How sad is that .
It really comes to something when a society is that screwed up and scared that it feels the need to have armed teachers .

Yep, I couldn't have put it better myself.

[Sarmatian]

I'll have to visit Texas. It seems that the spirit of Wild West was preserved there and ever since I've seen Gunfight at OK Coral I've wanted to feel that atmosphere...

[Veho Nex]

How sad is that .
It really comes to something when a society is that screwed up and scared that it feels the need to have armed teachers .

I dont know. I think I would feel safer with a teacher armed with a gun rather than a student. As long as the teacher knows when and how to use it. Even if crime rate and school shootings weren't so high, I know back in my dads day the teachers used to leave rifles in their car.

[Xiahou]

I dont know. I think I would feel safer with a teacher armed with a gun rather than a student. As long as the teacher knows when and how to use it. Even if crime rate and school shootings weren't so high, I know back in my dads day the teachers used to leave rifles in their car.

They used to have rifle clubs at schools where even the kids would bring guns to school- yet the mass shootings that everyone feared never materialized.

I visited a public school just a few years ago that had a shooting range in its basement- now used for storage of course. It was pretty interesting.

[Jolt]

I dont know. I think I would feel safer with a teacher armed with a gun rather than a student. As long as the teacher knows when and how to use it. Even if crime rate and school shootings weren't so high, I know back in my dads day the teachers used to leave rifles in their car.

You see, in other countries, we feel safer when neither a teacher nor a student carry guns. I feel (Heck, felt, since I'm already in college. :P) safer when it's the State School Police who carries all the guns. But that's just me. This law the thread is about is just another example why I consider the USA a barbarian country. (Adding to the list in which "Non-Existence of State Health Service" currently tops)

[Louis VI the Fat]

How sad is that .
It really comes to something when a society is that screwed up and scared that it feels the need to have armed teachers .

Indeed. Very sad this.

[SwordsMaster]

So, let me get this straight: If they made no attempt to conceal it, they were allowed to have one all this time?

[PanzerJaeger]

How sad is that .
It really comes to something when a society is that screwed up and scared that it feels the need to have armed teachers .

I've got to agree with Tribesman here.

As Xiahou alluded to, this country has always had guns a strong gun culture. There used to be gun clubs and shooting classes in most public schools. Sure there was gun crime, most notably in the early Western expansion and the gangster violence of the twenties, but most of that was directed at the participants or law enforcement when it tried to intervene - and more importantly, it was based on profit.

The idea of going postal - the mentality that "I'm going to go kill as many people as possible before the cops kill me." - is a sign of some real social problems.

I support this measure, but only as a band-aid. We need to work towards not having to have such things. The screamer's try and blame it all on video games and TV, but I think it goes deeper than that.

[KarlXII]

Everyone is still behind Texas

But they're behind California

[Louis VI the Fat]

I've got to agree with Tribesman here.

Bollox
Now then Panzer , can you name a plaec where they also ave armwd guns and where the teachers can shoot pupils ?
I'll give you a hint it is a certan plaec where ameicans recently invaded and struk a deal with a certan local milita involving armed guns in clasrsooms now the latter would seem accpetable to you and all that bolox but when it comes home you start ****** . so then tel me what is the diference ? or have you not thougth your post trouhg maybe ?
now then panzer ... can it be said then that your post is perhaps of the bollox variety ?

[KarlXII]

Can't wait till they hire a teacher who's secretly psycho

Besides, Texas, and the rest of the US, why are you guys http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us...ss&oref=slogin always a step behind us?

[Xiahou]

Can't wait till they hire a teacher who's secretly psycho

Right, cuz a teacher who wanted to go on a killing spree would let rules not allowing him to bring a gun to school stop him. That's why we've never had a school shooting- because students aren't allowed to bring guns to school... oh wait.

[KarlXII]

Right, cuz a teacher who wanted to go on a killing spree would let rules not allowing him to bring a gun to school stop him. That's why we've never had a school shooting- because students aren't allowed to bring guns to school... oh wait.

It'll make it a lot easier. "I'm going to kill people in this school what should I use? Oh, that's right, I have the gun the school let's me bring and have on me without suspicion."

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Can't wait till they hire a teacher who's secretly psycho

They very best that can be said for this comment is "morbid." Of course you wouldn't be hoping for the death of innocent students, even if they are guilty of the grave sin of being American?

As much as I'm rah-rah behind the 2A, I'm hesitant to support this. Hopefully nothing becomes of it and when it doesn't end in the deaths of dozens you can all try to find other ways to discredit firearm ownership.