Teacher thinks teachers should be able to carry
February 20th, 2008
Vulnerable schools need protection
If a psychotic gunman were searching for a tight cluster of multiple bodies — an easy target for seeking revenge, casting out demons, achieving immortality or whatever else his perverse purpose happens to be — he would find my classroom door wide open. He could assume a position straddling the threshold and blocking the exit, so that he could fire at the trapped students at will, reload his weapon and fire once again. We would be sitting ducks in yet another American schoolhouse tragedy.
But if I were packing a loaded automatic pistol in a shoulder holster beneath my jacket, we might have half a chance.
He claims to have once been against the idea, and he remains against allowing students to carry.
I’ve been trying to remember if there was any opposition to allowing airline pilots to carry weapons after they had gone through the required training. I do remember that the entire program ended up being a mess, but does anyone recall anyone arguing against allowing pilots, who are often stressed-out and tired, to carry?
Via Days of Our Trailers.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:19 am
Children of Beslan’ was just on HBO again. I can only watch it in short spurts before I’m overcome with rage. Of course teachers and principals should be armed.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
That ‘Children of Beslan’ is something else, isn’t it? I point it out once in a while, and I also watched it again recently. What’s even more maddening than a ‘normal’ school incident is that there were so many parents present for the celebration who were then taken hostage with the teachers and students. With ‘no carry’ rules at most schools, they would have been SOL here in the US, too. In fact, I even posted on Beslan here since GunPundit started up.