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Texas school district to let teachers carry guns
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| bigsnail |
Gangsta ass teachers :wtf:
good or bad idea? what does the c0r say?
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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/ts_nm/texas_guns_dc |
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| Jeremy H |
More guns for students to get their hands on. US gun laws  |
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| tubularbills |
| lol, oh texas:stongue: |
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| Sushipunk |
| Wtf, that's retarded :wtf: |
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| nchs09 |
Sure... this will help with violence
I hope there is a shoot-out and a couple of people die... Just so that the school district board gets fired. |
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| Ridexer |
| Way to solve gun problems: More guns.:stongue: |
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| Zild |
| I love it. Now the UT system just needs to start letting students with CHLs carry on campus. |
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| Fledz |
| Can the US get more retarded? Apparently yes :rolleyes: |
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| Elec |
"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."
I'd much rather have a teacher blast the brains out of some psycho shooter than have that shooter kill a bunch of people while everybody runs around and screams helplessly. |
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| Aquadyne |
| It works pretty well in Israel. |
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| CONNERMAN2000 |
:stongue:
You can all thank my school as being part of why this probably got enacted, along with VTech.
I'm not strongly pro or anti gun use and ownership, but a school is one place firearms shouldn't be. Simple as that. |
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