Teachers with Guns

[Non-Typical Solutions]

Heard about this on the news this morning, sounds pretty interesting....what do you think?

 

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.

 

The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district's superintendent, David Thweatt.

 

School experts backed Thweatt's claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom.

 

Thweatt said it is a matter of safety.

 

"We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, 'What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?" he said. "It's just common sense."

 

Teachers who wish to bring guns will have to be certified to carry a concealed handgun in Texas and get crisis training and permission from school officials, he said.

 

Recent school shootings in the United States have prompted some calls for school officials to allow students and teachers to carry legally concealed weapons into classrooms.

 

The U.S. Congress once barred guns at schools nationwide, but the U.S. Supreme Court struck the law down, although state and local communities could adopt their own laws. Texas bars guns at schools without the school's permission.

 

(Reporting by Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; writing by Bruce Nichols in Houston, editing by Vicki Allen)

 

 

[huntnaz]

at first i didnt like the idea, but after i read the entire post it semed to grow on me... do what you can to stop the idiots!!

[Non-Typical Solutions]

I had the same reaction, but thinking back to Virginia Tech, if somebody, just somebody would have had a gun and willing to use it could have saved some lives.

 

It is scary, I am a teacher and really don't want to have that put on my shoulders, but then again, I would rather be packing and ready than standing there helpless.....

[Coach]

If I were a teacher from 5th grade on up I'd be packing whether my district allowed it or not. Gun-free zones are ridiculous - only the victims will be "gun-free".

 

[BASS]

If I were a teacher from 5th grade on up I'd be packing whether my district allowed it or not. Gun-free zones are ridiculous - only the victims will be "gun-free".

 

 

+1

 

 

Tasers and OC only do so much when lives are on the line. Although thinking back there were only a handful of teachers I can think of that I would have trusted to have a gun.

[.270]

it's a sad statement when teachers hafta pack iron. i sure hope there aren't any accidents of other foolish things happen. Lark.

[Non-Typical Solutions]

Exactly my sentiments .270, I would much rather pack a paddle than a gun to school, but hockey, they won't let me use a paddle.....things are definitely bassackwards......

[.270]

mizz jarvis and her ruler scared me more than any machine gun woulda, when i was in skool. Lark.

[ichiban43]

My thoughts go back and forth on this. They keep coming back to the fact that we are our own 1st line of defense. But--what would happen if an unruly student or students got your gun away from you??

I was on a board of education for about 15 yrs and I'm glad it never came up--there would have to be a ton of research and input from parents, teachers, student representatives, law enforcement and anybody else you could think of. It would have been a time of a lot of soul searching and lost sleep. You are dealing with a decision that could,God forbid, be a life or death situation. It could be good and bad at the same time!!!

[Non-Typical Solutions]

The scenarios are unimaginable....take the college campus where students were killed.....Kent State was it? Columbine is an unbelieveable situation that none of us thought could ever happen, so to create a new monster with teachers packing weapons to school probably has unforseeable consequences.

 

To take someones life is something that none of us really want to do and especially an innocent person, but, at an example like Virginia Tech, if I would have been there, I would have wanted a gun, and it wouldn't have taken a second thought to put a bead on that guy when he started mowing people down.....

[BASS]

They had one of the board members on a radio talk show the other day when I was driving to work. He was saying that for the police to respond to that school had response time of thiry minutes. So thirty minutes to respond, plus say ten to set up a mobile command on site to talk to off site, prepare entry plan, and begin to excecute said plan. That could be up to an hour after the inital phone call to start the process.

 

I pretty much take it as any time there is a school shooting there will be death. Whether the shooter brings the gun onto campus, or gets it away from a teacher, either way people are going to be seriously injured/killed. So why not give the teachers and students the freedom to protect themselves?

[Rembrant]

 

The media will NEVER report a story where somebody with a gun saved the day. You can bet it happens, we just don't hear about it.

Ever in your life know about a cop getting robbed? Why do you suppose that is?

 

Make em take the conceled weapons coarse. Require them to be armed.

We've got enough evil running around massacering people to warrant it.

Mike