Small school in West Plains MO allows teachers to carry concealed firearms.

[gordianot]

As a retired teacher and gun owner I find this disgusting. National media has not really picked this up.

See link: http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-fairview-elementary-concealed-carry-armed-teachers-guns-at-school-west-plains-missouri-20130325,0,3849619.story?track=rss

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Needless to say, no one is interested in...

an honest study of the benefits of teachers carrying with such wee odds of a school actually being attacked vs. the odds of accidents happening.

Are the kids really safer?

And, what lesson is this for the kids? At this formative stage, will they have imprinted on them that guns are the answer to problems?

[Niceguy1]

6. they should not know if the person is carrying

Or not since it is concealed.

[jmg257]

11. Yep - because teachers do nothing ALL day that won't have a good chance of their

jacket riding up, or their shirt tugging, or their piece and reloads printing.

No chalk board writing, no leaning or bending over, no passing out papers, no sitting at desks, or getting up, or reaching up to pull down screens or maps or chalkboards, or any other activity a hundred times a day that might make the gun just a bit uncomfy and have to repositioned.

Also sure they NEVER need to use the bathroom, where the weight of a ccw will pull their trousers down, prompting them to leave the gatt on the back of the shitter or on top of the urinal.

And I'm sure in all schools ANY secrets about what teacher is doing what is a well-kept thing.

Sheesh.

Some gun owners are SOO dumb sometimes, but they sure are crafty at hiding things!

[defacto7]

2. Just wondering....

Is West Plains MO actually a dangerous place to begin with? If it wasn't, it is now.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. West Plains is a small town in the gun-lovin' Ozarks

This probably has more to do with media-induced fear than anything else-- "If it can happen in small-town Connecticut, it can happen in small-town Missouri".

[gordianot]

9. They had a few minor problems, this is the last thing they need or any school for that matter.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. I wonder what the minor problems were?

I agree, schools don't need guns.

I'm glad I went to school in an age when even talk about arming teachers with firearms would have been unthinkable.

[kudzu22]

10. Was Newtown?

[Mnemosyne]

3. Now they just need to arm the kids and it can be an absolutely total clusterfuck. Argh... nt

[gordianot]

4. I know this place it is without arming kids.

Sorry will not give details.

[Mnemosyne]

7. Thanks, gordianot. nt

[quaker bill]

8. Why can we not imagine

a world where teachers would never imagine carrying a firearm? It existed not that long ago. If we can imagine it, then we can take steps to make it happen.

[truegrit44]

13. Interesting I hadn't heard it and I am 40 miles

from West Plains. Our local news is KY3 but I just never listen to it and get my news online.

This is pretty crazy redneck country around here so I'm not surprised. West Plains also made the news during Obama's lst campaign when they put up a HUGE billboard on the main hwy going thru town showing him as a monkey with Hitler's mustache.

I would not let my child go to a school where there are guns on the property.........nuts, just friggin nuts!

[DainBramaged]

15. It amazes me your 'more guns' philosophy stands here

it's bullshit.


Another 2nd Amendeath cowboy with his gunz gunz gunz solution to fix America.

[cyberswede]

16. It doesn't always.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=303253&sub=trans

[DainBramaged]

17. Thankee