South Carolina GOP'er wants teachers to have machine guns.

[Archae]

Yeah, that'll work!

A state senator running against Lindsey Graham says that teachers should be allowed to carry machine guns in the classroom.

Oh my gosh, finally! Someone who makes Lindsey Graham look good.

South Carolina state Sen. Lee Bright (R), who is challenging Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in the GOP primary, said on Friday that school teachers should be able to carry machine guns to protect students from gun violence.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/and-while-we-re-topic-underpaid-teachers

[jsr]

1. And grenades

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. Candy Ass....

Field Artillery. Go big or go home!

[sked14]

8. The hell with that, give each school one of these.

Orbit one of these bad boys over a school and I'll bet little johnny will think twice about bringing a gun to school. LOL.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

15. OK, now you're just being silly...

Most schools don't have the ground crews to maintain one of those.

[sked14]

17. LOL.

A little tongue in cheek humor.
Hey, maybe we can shake loose some of that money used for war to assign ground crews to service those aircraft.

[Deep13]

2. Even apart from idiotic mental image that creates...

who is going to buy all these guns? School boards don't have enough teachers to go around and now they want to divert more money to turn schools into armed camps? What about learning? Are we giving any thought to that?

[PowerToThePeople]

3. Rescind the second amendment, Now!! n/t

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. Lee Bright is an idiot and

he wasn't raised right.
Bless his heart.

[shenmue]

6. Crazy

We need to be safer. That's it.

[raven mad]

7. Surface to Air Missiles and

Backpack nukes.

[Nevernose]

9. Obviously these two people have never taught remedial ninth graders

I find myself going to my mental happy place more and more often these days Fortunately, the radio station in my imagination is a big Mozart fan, so it's very relaxing.

[notemason]

10. Backfire

Not so sure if it's a smart idea for GOP lawmakers to be arming SC teachers with machine guns:

http://www.takepart.com/photos/5-strongest-and-5-weakest-teacher-unions-country/49-south-carolina-one-of-the-5-weakest

[Arugula Latte]

11. Has anyone noticed it is becoming increasingly difficult

to distinguish between "real" Republican-related news and the most over-the-top satire imaginable?

[jmowreader]

12. MACHINE guns?

[struggle4progress]

13. “South Carolina -- too small to be a nation and too large to be a lunatic asylum"

James Peligru, 1860

If kids today are anything like folk in my school days, those machine guns would be in student hands before the end of the first week of classes

[Are_grits_groceries]

14. Lee Bright is trying to get as far right as he can.

He and the Tea Party want Graham's hide and they may get it. They have been after him for years and their hate has not subsided.

Bright's problem is that there are candidates who have strong RW conservative beliefs that don't include teachers with machine guns. Except for those hanging by their toes on the RW edge, that is a step too far. Guns might be okay, but machine guns are a little more than most can handle.

[Nye Bevan]

16. My understanding is that some Catholic schools have already adopted something like this.