Pistol Packing Teachers

Published on August 15, 2008 By Boudica In US Domestic

Reading and Writing and a Rifle? Teachers make sure you have red marking pens, chalk and don't forget your glock and extra ammo. Is this really the answer to violence in schools? Teachers being allowed to carry weapons? I would have a real problem with my children attending this school. I understand the philosophy that a school shooter could be stopped but I don't know it just seems so wrong to me.

I hate guns. I just hate them. I have never held one. I have never shot one. I will never have one in my home. This just seems a hundred kinds of wrong to me.

What do you think? Would you be for or against teachers having weapons at your child's school? It can be an imaginary child if you don't have a real one. I really and truly would home school my kids before allowing them to go to a school that thought this was necessary.

Tasers would be okay. I wouldn't have a problem with tasers. At least they're not lethal. I think that is a fair compromise. Pepper spray - fine. A billy club - okay. But guns? I don't know.

Comments (Page 2)

Big Fat Daddy

on Aug 19, 2008

As the husband of a teacher working in Texas I can honestly say that I completely agree with eveyone of your anti-gun sentiments in relation to my wife so long as I now get to decided the security level of your loved ones. Deal? Oh, no? Of course not because the liberal zeal for self-rightousness rarely permits truly considering any alternatives to their close-minded ways. Listen, debate amongst yourselves all you would like and do all of us in Texas a favor; stay out. We have low crime and more tolerance than any of the previous 10 states in which I have lived. We are fine with you removing your children from these schools and moving to whereever you would like because it is likely that yours' are the ones causing the mischief due to their complete absence of moral parental direction. Don't worry about us, we'll take care of ourselves just fine... like we always have and always will. By the way, if your a college student on this post, I forgive you as I know in 10 years you will learn the error of your ways, now go play your little computer games.

Now that you have made some sweeping assumptions and separated us "close-minded, liberal zealots" who should stay the hell out of Texas if we disagree with you...let me throw a couple of assumptions back at you. Not informing us of your wife's qualifications to tote a piece into school, I will assume she has received enough training to carefully consider when and when not to pull her piece out and engage a shooter...background, innocents in the line of fire, how to draw that bead under fire and insure she can hit what she thinks she is pointing at. That is almost as big an assumption as the ones you made about the folks you are addressing here. Without that level of training, your wife or any other teacher anywhere, is as big a threat to innocent kids in her school as any evil-doing shooter would be. Since I am not sure where in Texas you hail from, I don't know if you are putting my grandchildren in jeopardy or someone elses'. As for your counsel to remove our kids from your wife's line of fire, makes more sense to me tho remove Annie Oakley than to make dozens of kids depart. "Absence of moral parental direction"...giving us permission to have an opinion in this...your arrogance is awe-inspiring.

I do believe having guns in school might deter some of the shootings, maybe, like I said before...lets consider carefully WHO gets to carry and who shouldn't. Texans are an independant lot, wonder how they will react when the first innocent child gets knocked down by an overly zealous response from a unqualified teacher?

Boudica

on Aug 19, 2008

Listen, debate amongst yourselves all you would like and do all of us in Texas a favor; stay out.

I'm in Texas. There are plenty of Texans on this site. Does that make us qualified to have an opinion?

yours' are the ones causing the mischief due to their complete absence of moral parental direction.

Absolutely, not MINE.

Paladin77

on Aug 19, 2008

I'm in Texas. There are plenty of Texans on this site. Does that make us qualified to have an opinion?

Only when you agree with me are you qualified to have an opinion.

Sorry, had to throw that in there it was just too good a setup to let it pass.

Folks its a debate people will have opinions and there are no facts to argue yet. chill!

dynamaso

on Aug 19, 2008

Like you, Boudica, I am completely against guns. Thankfully, Australia has much more sensible gun control lawas than America. But the very idea of a gun-toting teacher is just asking for all sorts of trouble.

Dr Guy

on Aug 20, 2008

But the very idea of a gun-toting teacher is just asking for all sorts of trouble.

In the right time frame, it is normal. After all, "gun toting teachers" were the rule, not the exception 150 years ago.

Jythier

on Aug 20, 2008

"Yeah he shot up the school, but where'd he get the gun?"

"He took it off his teacher."

Yep, that's where it's headed. Children with guns that they took from teachers.

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