Comments on: Should Teachers Be Allowed To Carry Guns?

Tiny Texas District OKs It; Could It Prevent Columbines?; Issue Debated, On The Early Show

[truthislife1]

Bad idea. The violent student will figure out where the gun is. Just install the same procedures of security it takes to get on an airplane!

[stn_sage]

Sure! Let teachers carry guns, and the first time one of them gets agitated enough, shoots and kills a student, and the school district loses a multi-million dollar lawsuit, then they''ll prohibit teachers from carrying guns!

But, like always, a few must die in the name of experimentation, until the balance is reached!

[cjw3cma]

JackSteen2

You show you KKK attitude too easily on these comment sites.
Please go back to your self absorbed little world and keep your vile opinions for your other KKK friends.

[blackyowe]

I own guns but say NO way to this!

[dscott407]

I was lured in by the headline:

Should Teachers Be Allowed To Carry Guns?

Our Teachers should Only be armed ( to the teeth mind you ) with Knowledge! This in the only way we can teach our youth to save us from the mess that we have created for them...

[marshall65]

No! Teachers, some in a panic will be shooting down the corridors killing students and other teachers. Bad way to deal with the problem. I pull range officer duty and 30-40% of the people who show up to shoot should never be allowed near a firearm. The Supreme Court did not rule that firearms are to be allowed everywhere and in fact gave legislative bodies the latitude to regulate where and how they can be carried, and what types of firearms can be owned. Giving everyone a gun is asking for big problems and lots of corpses-many belonging to innocent bystanders.

[stupidrules3]

Why don''t start by holding parents accountable for the actions of their minor offspring? If you thought that your little thug might land you in jail, maybe you would pay more attention to what the little bugger was doing. If parents were doing their job, this wouldn''t even be and issue. My mother was a teacher for 50 years and I have watched as the school system has robbed teachers of all methods of discipline in the classroom. Children will go as far as the rules allow, and then some. Is it any wonder that students behave so poorly?

[dscott407]

Should teachers be allowed to carry guns in school?

No.

Now see how simple that was?

Posted by skeezix06 at 05:29 PM : Aug 19, 2008

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I agree with the skeezer...

Arm the Teachers???

Now we want to give are teachers the role of "peace keeper??" How bad has our Education System anyway?

[cbs_oliver]

If everybody agrees then they should go ahead.

If they don''t want the spend the money needed for a safer option - like hiring a guard - then that''s their choice.

It may not work out well - but, if it doesn''t, it will still be instructive for those who survive.

[closethippy1]

At first teachers used discipline and a ruler on their students.
As time went by students began to bring knifes to schools, and later on guns.
Then the guns were put to good use by a bunch of losers who don''t know how to handle stress, and before you knew it whole massacres were happening.
And now teachers have guns.
The next step is for two or more students to plan an attack on all teachers, i.e. when they''ve their guards down while eating lunch, to see if they can kill them all before the teachers can use their guns.
If the attackers succed they will then walk around school to see how many students they can kill.

By giving teachers guns they will be the first ones to be targeted and killed in a surprise attack.

It''s not a good idea.

Slogans and bumper sticker mottos aside, I want every one of you to consider this: in all of your school days from kindergarten through matriculation, how many of your teachers ever demonstrated the ability to hit the broad side of a barn? Seriously, most of them missed the wastebasket 10 feet away, some of them aimed the paddle for the buttocks and hit the back of the knees, and 90% of the time, in the cafeteria, put as much trash on the floor as in the trashcan! I knew a teacher who couldn''t even put his own backside in his chair once. Pity the innocent bystander...unless you believe there is no such thing as an "innocent" bystander in school.

[questionnews]

Should Teachers Be Allowed To Carry Guns? Unless they are members of a well orgainized militia, they have no right to carry a gun in the USA.

Posted by ConDumbism at 05:33 PM : Aug 19, 2008

Didn''t the Supreme Court just resently decide that it''s legal for citizens that are not part of "well orgainized militia" to own & have guns? Or were all those news broadcasts just part of a vast conspiracy perpetrated by the NRA?

[billorights]

Unless they are members of a well orgainized militia, they have no right to carry a gun in the USA. - Posted by ConDumbism at 05:33 PM : Aug 19, 2008

Apparently you have not read the Constitution, or much news lately. Have you heard about the recent Supreme Court decision affirming the individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms without regard to service in the militia?

FYI, that is not judicial legislation. That is a long overdue confirmation that the 2nd Amendment means what it says, and says what it means.

[jimjus]

Now guns for teachers. Later they may allow students to carry guns. Instead of going forward, we are going backward.

[payasyougo]

"I have to say that having an armed security guard sounds much better than arming teachers. However, I just wonder how many of the poorer school districts could afford one."
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I agree. In most public schools, to hire about 8 security guards you''d have to layoff one administrator and reduce the administrator/teacher ration to less than unity.

Won''t happen.

[payasyougo]

"One thing about living in Texas with the concealed weapons law....... You had best be careful in who you flip off on the freeway (or, tollroad here). Confrontations are rare here as you never know who is packing....."
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We spend quite a lot of time in Texas. Some of the nicest folks in the country reside there. The folks I know with CHL are even nicer than most and wouldn''t be bothered by some out of town folk''s gesture, not that they would ever do anything to be on the receiving end anyway.

There are a lot of angry and selfish people in the world. I don''t know of any CHL holders in that category.

[jimfinster]

"little johnny, where is your homework? YOU DID NOT DO IT?"

POW !

[condumbism]

Should Teachers Be Allowed To Carry Guns? Unless they are members of a well orgainized militia, they have no right to carry a gun in the USA.

[lalabradle]

I don''t think teachers carrying guns to school is the answer. Guns and fear don''t mix, the idea of them feeling they need them in school is scary enough. I think they should have armed security. It would take training and a lot of control. Teachers are not law enforcement. It''s bad enough policeman sometimes shoot innocent people. I understand the need for better security but not for teachers. They should leave the gun toting to professionals.

[pbcityvet]

Don''''t be stupid....the solution is not arming the teachers, if you what to do something effective why not to open a police station on each school.

Actually that would probably be a better solution. Not a 24 hr department but it could be a substation. It would not cost anything for the department nor the school. The cops wouldn''t be there all of the time but it would be enough to be a deterrent.