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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Teachers Should Pack in Case Students are Attacked
By Doug Giles
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“Should properly trained and licensed teachers be allowed to carry guns into their classrooms?” That’s the $64k question being tossed around this week (once again) after Satan’s latest spawn, Asa Coon, stooge emeritus, decided to shoot up his Cleveland high school’s teachers and classmates this week. How about, yes teachers should be allowed to lock and load because not being able to doesn’t seem to be working.

As far as I’m concerned, a responsible and trained teacher should ab-so-frickin’-lutely be able to carry on campus. And none of this “concealed weapons” crap. I’m talking about visibly carrying their piece on their hip. And not just one but two massive nickel-plated S&W Model 29 .44 magnums with 7 1/2 inch barrels with bandoliers thrown around their shoulders, and next to their juicy apple and pencil jar on their desk they should have a mounted .50 cal. machine gun. You know…“just in case.”

If that’s too much, I think, at least, all first year teachers should go through Jason Bourne-like weapons training and be issued a 9mm Glock upon signing their contract with a new school. Kind of a “Welcome to the Jungle, glad to have you” gift.

If I taught school, not only would I want to carry a gun into class in order to stop (please read kill) a pathetic punk who’s decided he’s going to mass murder twenty-three of his peers because two of them made fun of his chartreuse doo rag in his latest Facebook profile photo.

I’d also have on me for lesser offenses:

• An 8ft. bullwhip to peel the flesh from the backs of the multitudinous smarmy adolescent smart alecks

• Throwing knives for persistent cheaters

• Brass knuckles for the morons who call someone’s precious daughter a b*tch, slut or whore

• Concussion grenades to break up the bathroom orgies

• A night stick for the Boulder High School admin monkeys who tell students that ecstasy, weed and screwing everything that moves is okay. And lastly, I’d have…

• Desks that would flip backwards, dumping the student who just told me to f--- off into an underground water tank filled with sharks with lasers on their heads.

In short, my classsroom would look like Van Helsing’s house. No one would dare try anything. It would be the safest place on the planet. Parents would love it.

Yep, it seems as if the formerly nice and quaint public schools of yesteryear have officially come to resemble in character, intelligence, morality and safety our nation’s prison systems. Especially where I live in South Florida. Heck, they look and operate like jails. They’re ridiculously over-crowded with aspiring criminals sporting entitlement mentalities who are fueled on violence, disdain, sexual weirdness and Mountain Dew.

Then there’s the tasteless architecture of the school itself with its assiduously strewn barb wire, sprinkling of squad cars wedged up against the exit doors, and the soft, gentle pinging of metal detectors at the entrance. All of it screams jail to me. I say we might as well arm the guards, I mean, the teachers.

You know what’s weird? When I grew up in Texas we regularly brought our guns to school with us, especially during hunting season. And you know what else? We made fun of each other, we had rough days, and we got into fights. And no one…with weapons all around…ever brandished a gun and started strafing the crowd. If we had a problem we’d walk into a nearby alley and beat the snot out of each other. It was a beautiful thing. No guns. Just fists of fury. And usually after the scrap the combatants became compadres.

Also, back in the day, the teachers weren’t scared of us. They beat us. My coach, principle, choir and shop teacher would beat the white off my butt when I got out of line. No students went home and got their crack head uncle’s .25 auto and came back and shot the teachers and/or the students. But that day is long gone, and ever since we yanked corporal punishment and teacher terror out of the classroom room we’ve had a spike in dead students and faculty.

Finally, I’m a guessin’ that 99.9% of the parents who lost their children in the following wish that their child’s teacher had a gun in order to defend their now deceased child:

• Stockton massacre – Stockton, California, January 17, 1989

• University of Iowa shooting - Iowa City, Iowa, November 1, 1991

• Simon's Rock College of Bard shooting - Great Barrington, Massachusetts, December 14, 1992

• East Carter High School shooting - Grayson, Kentucky, January 18, 1993

• Richland High School shooting - Lynnville, Tennessee, November 15, 1995

• Frontier Junior High shooting - Moses Lake, Washington, February 2, 1996

• Pearl High School shooting, Pearl, Mississippi, October 1, 1997

• Heath High School shooting, West Paducah, Kentucky, December 1, 1997 Continued...

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Doug Giles’ new book “A Time to Clash: Papers from a Provocative Pastor” is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles’ A Time to Clash is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s award winning talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.
 
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Subject: to Talli2long
You still didn't say anything about PREVENTION. Yes, you mentioned just a few of the symptoms of school shootings. And I mentioned investigating the conditions in the home.
There is a constant and irrefutable correlation to school shootings and abuse.
Children are abused at home, or they are abused by their peers. VERY often with anti gay epithet because such abuse most often goes with impunity. And just as often teacher engage in the abuse of children they think or know are gay as well.
Boys are the predominant in school shootings and girls who reject them are at the root of their intense emotions and feelings of helplessness.
I mentor teenagers. Who are being the most sold out by ignorant and preoccupied adults. And I'm sick of it.
The solution isn't to shoot a child an at risk who is already abused, but to intervene or prevent the abuse in the first place.
YOUR idea and that of most of the posters here...is not the solution, but in fact, part of the problem.

vespanat
vespanat , Just having a little fun with you, nothing mean malicious meant by it.

Vic, the truth is that all the guns are not our problem.
America has lost it moral way.

America has grown up with guns. Children have always been around guns and they knew how to use them.

As I mentioned above, I was in ROTC in high school and daily practiced with guns and live ammo.

We had hundreds of guns in an armory.
Not one accident, not one shooting took place, few nuts in school when I was going up.

We’ve created them in the past 50 years.

We have surrendered our nation to humanists, liberals who will destroy us.
We are going the direction that Britain went.

You guys feel safe in Britain because you have passed gun laws. Not true, you just have less shooting, but you still have criminals preying on the innocent as well.

Americans have more violence because we have more people.
The problem is that liberals have given them excuses for there behavior instead of punishing them.

I’m afraid that it may take another revolution to rid the country of Tyrants and terrorists.

Law abiding gun owners are not the problem. We are not about to give up the only means of defending ourselves.

When a violent person chooses of his own free will to use deadly force against the innocent, they have to accept the possibility of forfeiting there lives.

The criminal needs to understand that.

You have a great day, and tell the Brits that we still loveum, as long as they don't want to hold hands.HaHa
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