Comments on: Pistol-Packin' Teacher Says It's Her Right

Fears Columbine-Style Attack, Ex-Husband; School District Goes To Court To Disarm Her

[hey_denise]

Anyone who is afraid to be in a classroom WITHOUT a gun should not be teaching.



Unfortunately those days have past! Whether or not she is afraid of her ex-husband, she is completely sensible in being afraid of the kids. Like someone mentioned, VA Tech & Columbine have shown us, mentally disturbed children h*ll bent on harming others because they have unresolved mental and social issues can not be sensibly reasoned with to "put the gun down and not harm anyone." With that said teachers and anybody else possibly in the crosshairs of this type of school violence is totally within reason if they want to be protected in such an event.

[yoopermom]

when the school councilers told us "you know your parents are not allowed to touch you in any sense of dicipline, right?" They took the right of dicipline away, kids aren''''t afraid of anything/can get away with everything anymore, and now schools/teachers and society are scared $hitless of them.
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Posted by sbbm

Hello Neighbor!
They may have taken away our rights to parent our children, but they are quick to blame the parent when the kid goes astray.

[gunownerdan]

Terrorists have already targeted a school in Russia.
Nothing can make it easier for terrorists than to make it illegal for teachers and students to protect themselves. Virginia Tech is a "gun free zone" even for adults with a valid gun permit, but of course the homicidal maniac couldn''t care less. Killers prefer unarmed victims.

[hippychicky-2009]

Drywall: That was Theodore Roosevelt...he also said
"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man''s permission when we ask him to obey it."

[yoopermom]

Anyone who is afraid to be in a classroom WITHOUT a gun should not be teaching.
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Posted by abrnteach

Well said!

[yoopermom]

So this teacher does not feel safe in a suburban school full of wholesome intelligent White kids?
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Posted by cryonbrian at 11:27 AM : Oct 09, 2007
Hello, do you not watch the news? Are you only here to stir the pot? To turn this into a *race thing*? Take a look at the school shootings in the past few years Columbine, the Amish School, etc. Most of these massacres are being done by white kids. So why would someone feel safer in a *white* suburban area?

[drywall41]

SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK SOMEONE ONCE SAID..

[andor3]

prosperine said: "... I wonder if some aren''''t missing the point. The point, as I see it, is this teacher is bringing her personal problems to work. SHE is the problem. "

Good point and thank you for stepping back and offering a fresh and valuable perspective!

Going further, maybe we should try to figure out WHY there is a risk of violence in schools in every case--whether from teachers personal lives or student issues or whatever. Seems like many people are ready to assume that gun violence in schools is a given and then try to have the teachers outgun the students. Bad idea.

[Krazcarl]

gunownerdan...I lost my head the other day and quoted you though I''m a bleeding heart liberal I enjoy you perspective see we can all get alomg/

[prosperine-2009]

After reading the comments of some of the posters, I wonder if some aren''t missing the point. The point, as I see it, is this teacher is bringing her personal problems to work. SHE is the problem. Why should the rest of the school get involved with her mariatal problmes? I mean, if her ex is so dangerous, and there''s a remote chance he''s going to storm in, would you want you kids caught in the crossfire? He pulls a gun, she pulls a gun, innocent lives are lost. This doesn''t have anything to do with bratty, dangerous kids or Columbine, or a race issue or a lack of classroom discipline. She''s arming herself against her own personal problems. While she may feel it is not her fault, or even that she has a right to pack heat, I say I would not want this problem teaching in my child''s classroom!