Teachers are dealing daily with some of the worst issues children have to face. Drug deals, gang violence and school shootings have become everyday news.
So should the teachers be allowed to pack a heater?
“Jane Doe,” who agreed to be interviewed by phone on condition of anonymity, says she does not want to be viewed as an “Annie Oakley.” Trying to extricate herself from an abusive relationship led her to buy her first gun just a few years ago, she says. Prior to that she had not been an activist in defense of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment provision regarding “the right to keep and bear arms.”
But as a veteran teacher, she has come to believe strongly that having responsible armed adults on campus could have prevented tragedies such as those at Columbine High School in Colorado, Thurston High School in Oregon, and Virginia Tech University last April.
“I have no doubt at all that any time a criminal has gone into a school intending to commit violence they did so knowing nobody was going to be able to stop them,” she says. “We’ve seen what happens when teachers do nothing or can do nothing, and that’s not acceptable to me.”
Let her have it. Yeah, I said it, the guy always bagging on the public school system. But she has a valid reason to have that gun. Give all the teachers a gun. And train them with it. Train them so much they know it like the back or their hand. I would feel safer knowing there were that many guns in my kids school. It would lessen the likelihood of a school shooting there.
I think guns should be everywhere. I would fly on an airline that handed out guns with boarding passes. As long as they put Glaser rounds in them, give everyone a gun. 9/11 would have been a lot different if everyone on the plane had a Kimber Custom II.
“Sir, you’re sitting in Seat 14B. Would you prefer a revolver or a semi-auto?”
“Semi-auto…Glock if you have it.”
“Here you go sir, enjoy your flight.”
“WE ARE TAKING THIS FLIGHT IN THE NAME OF ALLAH!”
(100 guns are charged simultaneously)
“My bad, my bad. Here’s my boxcutter.”
Ahhh, America.
