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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas bill will allow teachers to kill students to protect school 'property'
Thu Jan 29, 2015 at 10:48 AM PST
Texas bill will allow teachers to kill students to protect school 'property'
by Hunter
Two men with rifles inside a Chipotle restaurant
Texas, where you may need to shoot someone at any moment.
This may be the most Texas thing I have ever heard.
The Lone Star State already permits teachers to have firearms in the classroom, but H.B. 868, also known as the Teachers Protection Act, would authorize instructors to use force or deadly force on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored event in defense of the educators person or in defense of students of the school that employs the educator. Instructors would also have the right to use deadly force in defense of property of the school that employs the educator. Moreover, civil immunity would be granted to those who use deadly force, meaning they would not be liable for the injury or death of student.
Having a teacher whip out his or her trusty sidearm to protect one's students from encroaching bears or Muslims or one of Texas's many, many other proud gun toters who may have momentarily lost one's mind is one thing, but instructing teachers that they are to use deadly force in defense of school property and that they don't have to worry about getting sued afterwards, now that adds a whole new layer o' Texas. Presumably this new law is needed because on occasion teachers have come across students defacing school lockers and have been previously unclear on whether or not that is sufficient grounds to shoot them in the head (answer: yes!) or because little Timmy (oh, who am I kidding, little Miguel) is preparing to carve his initials into a desk and only a teacher's well-placed bullet can stop the destruction of school property that is about to occur. (This also stands to make turn-in-your-textbooks day considerably more exciting. Better hope I don't see any penned-in mustaches in your history book, you little snots.)
I'm honestly trying to come up with a scenario in which having a teacher execute someone on campus "in defense of" school "property" does not sound like the dumbest thing anyone has ever proposed, and I'm drawing a blank. Perhaps the bill's author, State Rep. Dan Flynn (R-BecauseDuh), has this sketched out in his own mind, but the rest of us may need a bit more explanation. Then again, summary execution for property crimes has been high on the Texas list of must-have laws for some time now, so expanding it to every teacher at your kid's school must no doubt be considered a perfectly logical extension.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/29/1360958/-Texas-bill-will-allow-teachers-to-kill-students-to-protect-school-property
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Texas bill will allow teachers to kill students to protect school 'property' (Original Post)
FourScore
Jan 2015
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fredamae
(4,458 posts)1. "To Protect School Property"
Does that Include Ordering Students to Drop their Pants for a Poop inspection?
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/01/poop-inspection-texas-students-forced-to-pull-pants-down-after-feces-found-on-gym-floor-110977.html
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)2. "Billy! I told you to stop writing
on that desk! BLAM! BLAM!"
I can't see this ending well...
Skittles
(153,193 posts)3. gun humping cowards are a dime a dozen in Texas
angrychair
(8,733 posts)4. Meanwhile, at Sam Houston Elementary School...
I told you, don't lean back in the chairs...Eat lead you little motherfucker!!!!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)5. You broke a pencil lead, you are now toast.