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Idaho School Arms Its Teachers As Defense Against Violent Criminals
In the aftermath of the 2012 Shady Hook elementary school shooting, the Obama administration did everything in its power to impose even further Second Amendment limitations on general principles. It failed. Instead, what has happened over the past year is a documented series of lethal (and in many cases brutal) gun violence by those tasked to uphold and preserve the law, and who have been specifically instructed how to use weapons: the US police force.
And in a world in which violence is constantly on the rise yet the police can not be relied on to "protect and to defend", one Idaho school has decided to take matters into its own hands.
According to the Guardian, the small Garden Valley School district in Idaho has purchased firearms and trained a handful of staff to use them should the same school shooting rampage that has occurred across the country take place.
The stated reason for this decision, which will surely infuriate anti-gun activists, is that the school is far removed from law enforcement, that it takes the police at least 45 minutes to reach the school district. Furthermore, due to limited funds, the school is unable to afford hiring police officers to patrol the building during school hours.
The solution: the school board approved this month purchasing guns to remain locked inside the school and trained six employees to use the weapons in an emergency. A school board member said that the school has spent roughly $3,500 to purchase ammunition and train six school employees to handle the weapons while the rest of the arsenal was donated by the community.
Truly a novel concept: being prepared for violence instead of leaving your fate in the hands of some (potentially irresponsible) other person, and since the mere preparation will be a sufficient enough deterrent once it is public knowledge - the very same principle behind the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction - the probability of an armed assailant breaching the sanctity of the Garden Valley School district is virtually nil.
“I hope we never have to use them,” said Alan Ward, a school board member who has been discussing this option with the school for two years. “But in the event something did happen, we wanted to be prepared.”
The surprising move has been long coming: in 2013, an eastern Idaho school district approved installing gun safes in its high schools and middle schools in order for school resource officers to have easy access to rifles if needed – the same year the Idaho School Board Association rejected a plan to set up gun training for education staff and teachers. In 2014, state lawmakers approved allowing guns on college campuses.
So far it has worked: according to the Idaho department of education, school districts statewide reported less than 10 weapon-related incidents over the past two years. This includes reports about guns, knives and explosives to schools.
And yet, despite the Idaho's track record of school violence, there are those who promptly brought up hypothetical strawman arguments against the school's chosen path:
Even with training, there is no guarantee teachers and staff will prevent fatalities in a high-stakes situation, said Allison Anderman, a staff attorney with Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a nonprofit opposed to arming teachers.
She added that housing guns in schools could create a chilling effect for students who may be less inclined to speak out knowing that the teacher could be armed. “Just having people armed doesn’t make a school safer,” Anderman said.
Judging by empirical evidence, it does, as does the whole concept of "defense" because knowing one may be potentially met with lethal force will make one far less willing to engage in lethal threats in the first place. It is called deterrence for a reason.
As for students not speaking up over fears of being shot, questions emerge about what traumatic events may have defined Ms. Anderman own personal upbringing.
We conclude with a summary by John Vibes, whose recent takes on guns and school violence has been spot on:
As many of you who follow my regular work are already aware, I am an advocate of unschooling and homeschooling. I feel that the kind of schooling that we have today is counterproductive and oppressive, so I don’t feel that children should be forced to go to public school to begin with.
There may be a lot of great teachers out there, who care about what they do and have very good intentions, like the world famous educator John Taylor Gatto. But even he found the top down structure of the school system and the curriculum provided is very damaging to the minds of children.
He left public schools by writing his resignation letter in the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, starting the letter off by saying that he “refuses to continue hurting children.” He then went on to start an incredible career in writing, researching and speaking out about the dangers of compulsory schooling.
This element is important because the public school system combined with other forms of child abuse has worked to create the kind of violent and angry culture that we see today. When you treat people like prisoners and second class citizens for the most vital developmental years of their lives, you are going to create confused, bitter and deranged people. There is still value in group learning settings, and there is still value in teachers, but what we have today is indoctrination, not education.
With that being said, whether we are talking about a place of voluntary group learning in a free society or the compulsory public schools that we see today, the administrators should be armed. A convenience store clerk protects his store with a gun, and by the same logic a teacher or administrator should be able to protect the lives of children with a gun as well.
Which makes sense, and which probably explains why the administration will fight too and nail to prevent the case study of the Garden Valley School district from going national.
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Good. Finally some common sense.
The state of Idaho will be bankrupt after the first accidental shooting of a student. The legal liablity of giving teachers weapons is unimaginable.
Looking back on my own teachers there may be one I would have trusted with a weapon, maybe.
Sovereign immunity with limited or no liability.
No - if a teachers assaults or fucks a student, there is no sovereign immunity. There will be none criminally or in tort, either.
Honestly, if a teachers shoots a kid, you think the teacher is immune from prosecution because ultimately he works for the state?
Not at all - not every employee gets Qualified Immunity. Cops and judges and prosecutors - but not teachers.
No QI for them, no SI for negligent hiring, if any.
So Denny Hastert is in deep shit, so to spaek?
Do you have the winning Powerball numbers, too, Nostradumbass?
If the student was you, it might not be "accidental". Ever think of that Bubba?
A lot of years ago my school district staged a Columbine. None of us were given a heads up about what was happening. Teachers from three counties played the part of students. The S.O. locked down the perimeter and two shooters walked on campus armed with 357s shooting blanks. The first person they shot was our school resource officer. He was the one guy in uniform with a gun. Then they proceeded to walk through the campus as they executed us along the way. I was killed in the breeze way between the lunch room and the gym. I was the third or fourth person shot.
Those that hid in their rooms, turned off their lights and remained quiet avoided the mayhem. The many of the rest were not so lucky.
I had spent most of a decade with the department of corrections and was on the pistol team before I went into education. One of our history teachers was a Lt. Colonel in the reserves and ran M.P.s in the Middle East. One of the guidance counselors was a retired N.Y. cop. Right down the hall from me was the ROTC. The colonel wasn’t bad but the sergeant was one of the toughest S.O.B’s on the planet. None of us had a gun and none of us had a gun in our cars. We all obeyed the law and by so doing put ourselves and our students at risk.
+1 Great story.
No more acting out in class or "lost" homework. Hee hee.
We'll either have class or funerals you little sons of bitches........
In went to high school in the late 60s and early 70s in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada.
We had a riffle range and lots of guns. The school population was around 1400 with mature teachers and staff of around 200. No body got hurt and everything was kool.
This is not news.
Attended high school in a small Texas town in the early 70s.
Every year we celebrated "Western Days" for a week. Rode my horse to school (about ten miles) with a 30-30 in the scabard and Grandpa Johnie's old Colt on my hip. Principal made me unload them, but I carried that old Colt to classes all week. So did all the other shit-kickers (which pretty well accounted for all the guys in school).
No gunfights. No drama. An armed society is a polite society.
lots of guns in chicago.
lots of shootings too.
what works in idaho doesn't necessarily translate elsewhere. Which is why states having broad power to do what fits makes sense.
Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. How is that working out for you? Guns don't kill people chimps with guns do.
I mean no harm, criticism or denigration whatsoever.... It is what it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swP1URzCEXs
LMAO
That ape made monkeys out of those silly negroes!
Which were the apes and which the negros? They all look the same to me.
How can you even compare Idaho with Chicago? Anyone else would agree that he 98% white population in Idaho may be the difference between how guns are being used (or abused) in Idaho vs Chicago?
I didnt reference gun laws, though, did I?
I referenced guns.
Keep swinging, maybe you'll hit something though - everyone who disagrees with you is a liberal faggot, right?
Delicate Genitals. That is genius!
And yes, you are a liberal faggot. Or at least the manner in which you engage in argument leads me inexorably to that conclusion.
Gun Free Chicago:
Year To Date
Shot & Killed: 156
Shot & Wounded: 907
Total Shot: 1063
Total Homicides: 182
"
lots of guns in chicago.
lots of shootings too."
What part of that gave you trouble? Or did you think I was referring to all those shootings done without guns?
Maybe your presuppositions got mixed up with my presuppositions. IDK.
I suppose you might be right.
So...you're saying shootings involve guns.
Hmmmm...
You ARE a genius!
Now *that* was interesting.
Common sense. Millions of Americans carry a concealed weapon every day. They do so safely and without using them wrongly. Those who oppose such measures have an unreasonable and unfounded fear of guns and the same misguided thoughts about he safety of guns in the hands of the guvment.
Feel good story for the day
A Do these teachers belong to a union?
One will have the gun
One will have the ammo
One will give instructions how to load the magazine
One will give instructions on who to shoot and how to aim
This will end well. You are more likely to be killed by your children than any terrorist.
Mo guns, mo shooting, mo deth.
Fuck you people are stupid!
children can be terrorist too llike the columbine kids
Good, glad to hear it.
I live in IN, work in the peoples republic of Chicago. They recently allowed concealed carry permits in the state of IL. Part of this law states that if you have a 'no guns allowed sticker' on the front door of the building, lawfully permitted persons are not allowed to carry a lawful firearm inside.
All this sets up is an area that a criminal knows will not have any firearms available for self defense.
I want to have about 1000 stickers made to place under these 'no guns allowed' notices that simply state in all caps:
VICTIM ENHANCEMENT ZONE - ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.
I only hesistate as Rahm may subpoena zero hedge to find out who made this comment....
but if you arm the teachers and someone tries to harm the students how will they stop them? <said the anti-gun activist
"by sending them to hell as fast and humanely as possible, we do have get as many hours of instruction as we can here"
Damn, that sounds like a Progressive Q&A. Q asked and then one hears sounds of circuits popping and tripping, snap, crackle and pops, eyes glazing, voice tremulous just before raised 3 octaves and decibels followed by nonsensical statements of irrelevant straw men.
What if the teachers decide to start shooting students?
If you're against arming the students to protect themselves, you are a faggot.
Why do we drive in the parkway and park in the driveway?
answer mine first, meatwad.
if you can.
Another armed teacher shoots the psycho teacher, "genius."
how many kids are dead if the teacher locked the classroom first, Mr. friendly christian type? What - you think another armed teacher instantly appears and our first gunman has not prepared?
You're arguing a best case scenario, well, sort of arguing. Mostly trying to be clever. and failing, by the way, but no grave sin there.
Your 'faith based' solution might work sometimes, but a decent shooter could kill quite a few students first.
What if the Staypuff Marshmallow Man is actually REAL and attacks the school and eats some of the kids, but the rest of the kids bumrush and eat Staypuff then end up all getting diabetes from all the sugar and losing limbs due to vascular degeneration and then they all have to start riding motorized scooters causing huge scooter traffic jams at Toys R Us?
That's a scenario that will keep us "merikans up at night.
We need a war on the Staypuff Marshmallow Man, at ANY COST!!!
Ban marshmallows.
JUST FUCKING ARM EVERYBODY AND NOBODY GETS HURT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swP1URzCEXs
1- Chimps work for bananas (which are inexpensive), so arm the chimps, put them in schools to defend against school shooters.
2- ?
3- PROFIT!
"An armed socoiety is a polite society."
----Robt A Heinlein
so you decided to go that way, huh?
Good for you - you still didn't address *my* point.
Which is specifically about the population of people who are teachers.
Too stupid? I bet you use sarcasm - A LOT.
fuck you, ya dumb, insipid, predictable bitch. You could at least be fucking interesting about it.
Fish on!!! It's a big one!
see below, stupid.
or don't. you're already fuckin' boring... I'm going home now to drink and fuck my wife. God bless us everyone.
I just left your house. I don't think Mrs. Delicate Genius has much left in the tank for you, if you catch my drift.
You wore out the dog, eh? Good one.
Grow up moron. Some of the most nonsensical comments I have ever read. i am just suprised that you didn't blame the jews.
Addressing your points in order:
1 - You really need to get laid.
2 - You have no proof supporting your argument of a burned out teacher population. I reject your premise out of hand. While it may be true in one or two locations, I refuse to believe it is true across all places all the time. It certainly is not true where any of my kids have gone to school in the past.
3 - If you can accept my argument in 2, then going forward with the assumption most teachers are rational, well trained reasonable people, arming them makes a lot of sense. The chances of a teacher locking the door and shooting the children is low to non existent. Could it happen? Sure. But pigs could also fly out of my ass. I would say both events are equally likely.
4 - If there are locations where teachers are in the state you say they are, then the argument really needs to be put on hold while you clean up the teacher population. Who wants a bunch of burned out whackos teaching their kids anyway? Once you have cleaned up the population, you are back to step 3.
5 - As for suggesting the poster be interesting, you could try doing that yourself. See my post earlier about Van Halen's hot for teacher. *That* is interesting.
"how many kids are dead if the teacher locked the classroom first"
Then people die.
What if a psycho teacher brings a bomb to school?
What if a psycho teacher brings poison to school?
What if a psycho teacher sets the school on fire?
Etc, etc, etc.
Nothing will prevent a violent psycho from acting out better than terminating, by any means (including guns), the offending party.
I will spell this out for you and your buddy - you aren't getting it, maybe you aren't stupid, but you have a kneejerk reaction to people who you think disagree with you.
To make this even simpler - I'm saying based on experience you lack - a lot of teachers are unstable/burned out/crazy... you want to give them all guns to stop lightning strike odds of teacher violence. By giving tens of thousands of guns to this population of teachers, MAYBE you stop a school shooting in a way it would not have been otherwise, but you have to weigh that potentiality against the much more likely case of one of the teachers you arm shooting people.
Being angry and upset at the merest suggestion someone doesnt agree with you on guns, or immigration or whatever makes you fuckers stupid. You have to learn to read
. I'm not trying to take your guns, stupid, I'm saying if I had kids in the schools I wouldnt want some of the teachers I've known fucking armed to protect them from the very, very unlikely case of a school shooter who is too stupid to take out the armed teacher first...
fucking morons....
This is good though, to learn with whom not to bother.
We're just having fun with you. Take your tampon out, you hyper-sensitive little twat.
"I'm saying if I had kids in the schools"
You're stuck in a paradigm; can't think outside the box.
Homeschool is one of the answers,
Revamping the "education" system is another.
There's lots of solutions, but as long as the majority of parents don't chose to homeschool, then there will be school shootings.
And if they homeschool, that will make them safer, but it won't eliminate the possibility of early death or injury.
That's life.
On a long enough timeline...
Still waiting for you to look at the other side of the coin:
How many gun-carrying cops are unstable/burned out/crazy, or hardened criminals for that matter?
Why are you steadfastly ignoring that no matter what you would want, those will continue to carry guns.
Fuck that. This is fight club, damn it! We need rocket lauchers and stripper poles up in that bitch!
...or maybe responsible parents?
Kids are not adults. They do not have the rights of full blown citizenship and are thusly wards of their parents who are assumed to be citizens with all the rights and responsibilities in accordance with such status.
thank you - a fair and reasonable response.
Remember the Post Office 20+ years back
"If you're against arming the students to protect themselves, you are a faggot."
Nice try, faggot. The students are not adults. The teachers are.
You sound like you are still a student. You aren't in Columbia getting a Masters in Philosophy and getting ready to default on your student loans are you? lol
I'm pretty sure if teachers in my old high school were assigned weapons and specially trained in their use, there'd be plenty of dead students, at least until the rest learned.
I would mandate that all these armed teacher target practice with targets shaped like FBI phantom Adam Lanza.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
If you think Adam Lanza is a phantom, you should listen to the radio talk show he called into before he killed those kids. Would you like a link, or are you capable of typing a search into Google yourself?
I used to teach, in NYC, not the hood hood, just a regular shitty public school in Brooklyn.
People here, with their love of guns, is fine, I don't give a strong shit either way - but you don't know much about teachers. A big solid chunk of them, in urban areas, are alcoholics, recently divorced, burned out, suffer from ptsd or some other anxiety disorder.
If you think you have it all figured out by arming teachers - hey, good for you.
But based on what I've seen, they better do some screening, or you're going to have teachers shooting up lunch rooms and the like. I absolutely promise you that will happen.
And if I'm right, whom do we arm then?
And there you have it. Example A of why people chose to home school rather to have morons such as this teach....er, indoctrinate their children.
I'm suggesting the set of people known as teachers contains a larger than averaged number of people who may, with gun at the ready, use it. If you were smarter, you'd understand and address the point instead of doing the inverse of the sort of knee jerk ad hominem bullshit they do at Daily Kos.
Now, go fuck yourself, stupid.
This guy knows what he's talking about, whether he is a progressive or not. I am massively pro gun and I don't enjoy raining on the parade. Many of those teachers are crazier than bedbugs. Most contracts make educators exempt from UA, too. Two years ago, a local teacher at the alternative high school was busted for meth in the classroom. A local attorney got busted for the same that year. It is everywhere.
It is sad because I had such fine teachers back in the day. My Mama was a teacher. Things have changed.
I still believe it is a positive development. Most people with issues will not opt for the training where a good instructor may weed out undesirables.
And what of the cops? Same basic competence as a public school teacher. How often are cops drug tested? How often to they HAVE to have a psych eval? I'm happy to report officer buttplug down in McKinney resigned. I'd like to see the grand jury evaluate an assault charge.
For the record, I support teachers having access to firearms at school. I believe they will self select and have the most capable and stable teachers with the access and training. In theory, anyone who had a serious mental condition or was on drugs would be committing a felony to be in possession of a firearm, anyway.
Whether or not it is true, that educators are more unstable on average, than say pharmacists, is not the point. The point is the Second Amendment, natural law, and preventing another massacre.
Perhaps we are all talking at cross purposes. I for one think teachers with guns is an excellent idea precisely because they may be ready to use it.
Kids have run amok in the classroom for way too long.
If good old teacher was likely to blow your pinky toe off next time you interrupted class, we poor white kids might finally get enough study time to compete with the chinese.
Not to mention how much hotter that Van Halen video would habe been if she had been packing a chrome handled 1911 in a leather holster. God help me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M4_Ommfvv0
What is to stop said teacher from doing so at any time? Are guns hard to find? Are people, who are willing to commit acts of mass murder, worried about gun laws?
If the other staff are armed then said "postal" teacher will be brought down in a hurry.
You can't legislate safety. This is your fallacious assumption.
Well, I would give them only to those NYC police who live such exemplary, nonalcoholic, uncorrupt, nonviolent lifestyles; --you know, the well-adjusted ones.
Sorry, but you just make it wayyy too easy to resist ; )
you and the rest of the brain trust can't seem to resist inferring things I never said.
Not EVERYONE who asks questions about NRA style ideas is some far left wing idiot.
Stop excluding the fucking middle. Stop responding to arguments not made, insinuations not insinuated, and facts not introduced.
It makes you look stupid and simple.
I'm getting junked, too, and I'm a gun nut.
We all have a Constitutional right to bear arms. Teachers should not be an exception. I think readers believe that you are arguing that teachers can't be trusted with guns. You can find buggy people in every profession. Teachers are probably no worse than any other profession in these times.
Most unstable people will exclude themselves and not take the training. Those that wish to have access to a firearm in a school will probably be at least as stable as the typical person.
I applaud the Garden City School District for this action. They are not the first, however. I believe that distinction belongs to a West Texas School District.
I am stupid and simple and I like it that way.
If you don't support the second amendment, you are most assuredly a far left wing idiot.
Can your high falootin' brain process that concept or do I need to Homer Simpson it down a little bit?
If teachers are ready to start shooting students, why haven't they? They could simply bring their own gun to school.
This sounds exactly like our police force.
"A big solid chunk of them, in urban areas, are alcoholics, recently divorced, burned out, suffer from ptsd or some other anxiety disorder."
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
"I carry a gun 'cause a cop is too heavy."
I gotta remember that one.
Thanks!
Can't wait for teachers to start shooting dem ungrateful chirrun. Cops are already ahead of them.
Fuck yeah!
Won't stop kids from getting shot up in Connecticut or NY schools, but it's a start. If kids can get gay training in public schools why not make it mandatory to give them gun training? It's a right, not a privilege. All but one US mass shooting since 1950 was in a "gun free zone."
See! That's why they shouldn't give guns away in gun free zones!
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
lol
Rifles..?!?
I suggest that school brush up on close-range combat before making their purchases...
"Even with training, there is no guarantee teachers and staff will prevent fatalities in a high-stakes situation"
Without guns or training, there's a %100 guarantee teachers and staff will not prevent fatalities in a high-stakes situation.
It's just proof that liberal lawyers as her are more delusional than the Federal Reserve. Of course if she's threatened, she will likely get poleece or armed guard protection, but where we get the last laugh is when she is forced to utilize the protection of what she preaches against when her protectors have to fend for themselves after the SHTF.
Cops who want their salaries as protected in these libuhrul zones as Maryland, Chicago, California, New York, likely back her nonsense. God Bless the majority of cops who see things the way most Americans do, at least the ones with Real Red Blood still flowing.
Love a school that is proactive and not afraid of the liberal media branding them.
There is a better alternative weapon called the JPX Pepper gun. Less-lethal in nature and won't ricochet like a gun. Less risk of collateral damage. Check it out at www.thepeppergun.com
I am sure pepper spray could have a role, but there is no substitute for lethal force. If you give me a choice of bear spray or my 629 in bear country, I'll take the 44 mag every time. If in a building, I would probably use a frangible 9mm or possibly a lighter load of 45, 185 grains or so, with a massive gaping hollow point.
Bears are the least of your worries. I carry in town, but never in the woods.
Anybody that pepper sprays me is getting shot.
Why is this a STORY? In Oklahoma where I live now, teachers can be armed if they have CCW and additional training. This is among the few things I agree with Gov. Fallin and was passed recently.
I'm 110% pro gun and I'm happy to hear Idaho has taken this step, it will save lives, even a psycho avoids a hard target.
All I know what they're doing in Chicago ain't working.
hee hee. crazy guntards got played.
So, controlling access to guns in the school to a few trained teachers and the guns locked up in a certain area. 2nd amendment WIN.......not.
Gun control wins, and guntards jump for joy.
"Gun control wins, and guntards jump for joy. "
Uh, no you simple minded dumb shit. A school that was formerly a gun free zone is now issuing guns to teachers.
Seems to me that gun control took a big step backwards here.
The only thing that took a giant step backwards is rationality. After all, what happens when (not if) a teacher ends up misusing lethal force? What'd be the next logical step? Arming dem chirrun? The only step forward that'd mean is in madness, as the armed teachers is. Or what if those pesky little turds ever manage to get their hands on the teachers guns? There are so many wrongs in having armed teachers I can't believe parents are willing to follow this up. Unless they be as crazy.
Are you the one who believes cops never misuse lethal force and are special, extra talented individuals?
No, but cops jobs', among things, dealing with lethal force. Dealing with force in general. Even with training they sometimes do wrong. Now imagine, considering those specifically trained to do that committing wrong, the statistical chances of a damn teacher with a gun to do wrong. Or of the students getting to that gun and doing wrong. A safe bet for disaster.
"what if those pesky little turds ever manage to get their hands on the teachers guns?"
In case you haven't noticed, there have been many school shootings where the pesky little turds managed to walk into school and start shooting with guns that didn't belong to teachers.
Arming teachers is a responce to school shootings; not the cause.
Try to pay attention.
Well, now give those lil turds one more chance to get a gun (from a teacher now), and voilá. Try to pay attention to the consequences of what you mean.
You are an imbecile. This action is long in coming to a situation long out of balance from stupid progressive policies. Frankly, over medication of children is more key to this problem but that never seems to be addressed. Until this country wants to give up pills, I'd say we should try and protect the innocent.
Many of us have grown up with guns and educated properly by our parents how to handle them appropriately. The child shootings one commonly reads about are children from households where someone has bought a gun " for protection" and tossed it irresponsibly in a bed side table, never educating themselves or their children in proper gun handling. How many children have grabbed a police side arm and shot someone with it?
If I were a teacher, I would gladly have a gun in class but I would prefer it on my hip and not locked up.
Miffed
Big deal. What they really need are gun vending machines in the schools. Show me where in the constitution that shouldn't be allowed?
The only reason some common sense prevailed in Idaho is that the "diverse" population is insignificant. It would be racist to allow teachers to conceal-carry in school districts where feral Africans with poor impulse control and scant interest in learning are a clear and present threat to teachers or other students.
Mind you, there's an even easier and cheaper solution to school violence. Close the government schools. Everything an American child needs a teacher for a computer can do faster and cheaper. If we need somewhere to warehouse African pups to keep them off the street corners of America cities, that's what Liberia is for.
When I was a kid we used to go goose hunting before school. Our shotguns would get wet from the long grass we used to hide in. When we got to school after hunting we took our guns inside and stored them in our lockers so they would dry and wouldn't rust. No one cared or even ever asked why we had guns in our lockers. We walked in and out of the school with the guns clearly visible and no one ever asked so much as a single question about it.
And guess what! Noone in the school was ever shot! What a miracle.
When a certain percentage of the population thinks, as they do, what a piece of paper can stop a bullet. We are doomed.
Idaho Falls High School used to have a .22 rifle and pistol range in the basement. Maybe still does, ain't been there in a long time.
And I don't think I ever saw a cop in our school hallways. Ever. At any Idaho school.
And in high school, kids had guns in the student parking lot, the guns stayed in the vehicles.
And there were no fences surrounding junior or senior highs. Elementary had fences with pedestrian gates so kids could come and go.
No one ever was shot, kidnapped, whatever.
Our principle at one of the HS in Boise offered us a locker to stow guns in. He figured if we were going hunting after school he would just as much lock the guns up as leave them in your car to get stolen. Kind of a cool feeling to get out of class, go get your gun, then walk out to your car to head out hunting.
Not only do I think Americans have the right to be armed, I think it should be MANDATORY.
<Chuckle>. If everyone had to carry, there would be a LOT fewer 'urban youth'. Can you imagine the murder orgy when all the guns arrived in da hood?!? Dear Lord, that day would be legendary to anyone supporting population and welfare control.
Dare to dream... all the filthy rat inner city "norwegians" kill each other off. The rest of us wouldn't need to carry any more.
Fuck-yeah!
Isn't that what the USA governs on? Whomever has the bigger stick, (war machine) Is good for the policy makers, but not for it's citizens.
Fucking hypocryts!
why shouldn't the teachers get first pop? if they wait for the cops to show up they'll never get to shoot a 1/2 dozen kids, the cops will kill them all first, greedy bastards.
The South was right!
And to improve academic achievement, let teachers pop one student in each course they teach. It will work wonders.
Predators love their prey to be unarmed!
How obvious can anything be?