Republican says: "Arm the teachers!"

[ForFuxakes]

Typical Republican strategy...kill 'em all and let god sort them out...

MADISON, Wis. - In the wake of school shootings in Wisconsin, Colorado and Pennsylvania during the last two weeks, a state legislator says he plans to introduce legislation that would allow teachers, principals, administrators and other school personnel to carry concealed weapons.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15142930/

[Virginia Dare]

1. Brilliant idea!!!

just don't see any downside to that at all....:sarcasm:

[Freedomofspeech]

13. I worked with some teachers in redneck PA...

who would think that was a great idea. Those miserable SOBs.

[Waya]

2. Swell idea......

.......shootouts between students and teachers, teachers going psycho and going on a rampage.....great. What kind of a diseased brain.......?

[YOY]

3. You might want to give them raises first

Oh wait, you don't like for educators to make jack squat.

[tomreedtoon]

4. It's only making school policy official, after all.

What was that movie with the teacher who pulled a revolver, put it to a kid's head and forced him to give the correct answer to a question in class? Everyone thought that was funny/scary. Gee, that'd never happen.

And although it was Hollywood-stupid fantasy, there was "The Faculty," about a dead-end school where the teachers were replaced with human-looking military robots...who killed students at any infraction of the rules. The surprise about the film: nobody who's ever experienced American public school in the lsst few decades was surprised in the least.

You gentle, sheltered, innocent, hoodwinked parents may not have realized this, but teachers actually cheered on these films. They've wanted to do this for years. Forget using the strap, they want to BE strapped. That would REALLY make their authority unquestioned, which is what these home-grown Abu Gareb torturers have always wanted.

[cynatnite]

5. Mrs. Motes, my 4 grade teacher, was a scary woman...

I wouldn't want anyone like her toting a 9mm. :scared:

[longship]

6. Second guessing this.

Washington, DC. April 5, 2007. Congress acted quickly today to repeal the Republican-supported "Arm the Teachers Bill" which President Bush signed into law in February. This is after the 15th incident of teacher on student gun violence in the past two weeks. Republican leadership claims that the entire program should not be scrapped just because of a few copycats and that the Democratic majority is soft on protecting our teachers. In spite of this, many of the Republicans supported the Democratic Party effort to repeal the law. President Bush is expected to veto the bill, forcing an override attempt in Congress. The vote on that override is expected to be close.

[Union Thug]

7. Some bow-tie wearing freakshow was on insHannity

recently suggesting this was a good thing.

Yeah, I want my five year old attending a school where concealed weapons abound. Fuck that.

And I am the owner of a small collection of WWII firearms. I am not anti-gun. This is just a stupid fucking idea.

[originalpckelly]

8. It is extreme, but what exactly is so horrible?

Is it because they might use the weapons in situations where it would constitute excessive force? (That seems to be why this idea is extreme.)

[Union Thug]

11. Concealed weapons are not necessarily secured weapons.

And I will not send my child to a school where weapons are acceptable on school grounds. Things are volatile enough as it is. Considering the potential for inappropriately stored guns, stolen guns and any of a million other scenarios, I think it's a really bad idea, fraught with danger to staff and students alike.

And, as I said before, I am NOT anti-gun. I own many. In my house, they are locked away from the children.

[ForFuxakes]

12. I do not trust most people with guns

and you would allow some 22 year old recent college grad with a loaded Glock in your child's school. Please!

The recent Florida SWAT (trained & psych profiled professionals) team that shot the suspect with 68 (SIXTY EIGHT) rounds! You want to give Ms. Patterson a weapon. WTF!

Almost anyone who has ever been on a hunting trip knows the term "buck fever". This is a physical response to the adrenaline rush associated with a tesne situation. Shaking hands and impaired judgement from the fight/flight response is enough for me to question having un-trained people in charge of life/death situations thank you very much!

[tk2kewl]

9. Even the pedophile teachers?

[kwolf68]

10. I gotta laugh

Our nation becomes the world's laughing stock the minute this stupid idea goes into practice.

[Parche]

14. arm the teachers

This goofball doesnt have a 'leg' to stand on