Arkansas school to arm teachers with concealed weapons

[Peikko 1,575]

Eh - I think it's a great idea in places where corporal (sp?) punishment for minor offenses has been removed.

Sure, that make sense. Physical punishment is the resort of those who do not know how to command respect. Good teachers have never had to resort to that, ever.

I am sure that the idea that a gun would or should be used to back up effective discipline hasn't even been mooted, but it stands to reason that those ####### teachers that do not have a clue how to command respect would allude to their arms to gain the respect they feel they deserve. What joy is in store for these schools.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Spurring debate about gun control in the wake of Sandy Hook = exploiting the corpses of children for cynical benefit

Using Sandy Hook for a justification for more guns, everywhere, all the time ≠ exploiting the corpses of children for cynical benefit

I live in Los Angeles, about which Axl Rose once sung so eloquently, "You know where you are? You're in the Jungle, baby! You're gonna DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!" and I have never once seen a guard at a movie theater packing heat.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

There won't be any children killed at that school. The libtards are going to be mad about that. Tough shitski

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

I live in Los Angeles, about which Axl Rose once sung so eloquently, "You know where you are? You're in the Jungle, baby! You're gonna DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!"

because everyone does sooner or later?

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

because everyone does sooner or later?

I mean, Axl lived here for aaaaaaages and he didn't die. He just became even more of a vain crackpot.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

I hate to imagine what punishments might have been meted out to us kids had my teachers been armed.

The whole idea of armed teachers is simply madness. I can't get my head around anyone thinking this is a good idea, let alone a good idea in a modern society where real dangers that require armed response are as rare as hens teeth and getting rarer. I can't imagine any other modern country that would even discuss this as a solution to a ridiculously rare event let alone implement it.

It is Arkansas after all.

Edited August 1, 2013 by ready4ONE

[RGinWA 816]

Why not just put shock collars on the kids...non-lethal, can't be wrestled away and used on a teacher and could make a fine fashion statement.

This is the greatest idea since...well I can't even think of one better!

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

Why not just put shock collars on the kids...non-lethal, can't be wrestled away and used on a teacher and could make a fine fashion statement.

This is the greatest idea since...well I can't even think of one better!

good idea. can we start with those screaming brats in wal-mart first?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

There won't be any children killed at that school. The libtards are going to be mad about that. Tough shitski

Yes. Who doesn't love dead children?

[Jacque67 7,328]

Why not just put shock collars on the kids...non-lethal, can't be wrestled away and used on a teacher and could make a fine fashion statement.

This is the greatest idea since...well I can't even think of one better!

Pure genius!

[Jacque67 7,328]

What's wrong, Darnell? You seem lost.

I think he has a crush on you.

[Darnell 8,478]

Nu Unh !!! No la !

[RGinWA 816]

Pure genius!

It's like they read Ronald Reagan mind.

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”

Ronald Reagan

The GOP is thoroughly hijacked and doomed.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Ark. AG: Schools can't arm teachers, staff

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas school districts can't use a little-known state law to employ teachers and staff as guards who can carry guns on campus, the state's attorney general said Thursday in an opinion that likely ends a district's plan to arm more than 20 employees when school starts later this year.

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, a Democrat, wrote in a legal opinion issued by his office that a state board that licenses private security agencies didn't have the authority to allow districts to employ their teachers and staff as security guards. A state lawmaker requested the opinion a day after The Associated Press reported on a plan by the Clarksville School District in western Arkansas to use more than 20 teachers and staff as volunteer security guards armed with concealed 9 mm handguns.

"Simply put, the code in my opinion does not authorize either licensing a school district as a guard company or classifying it as a private business authorized to employ its own teachers as armed guards," McDaniel wrote.

David Hopkins, Clarksville's superintendent, said he had spoken with McDaniel earlier Thursday about the opinion. Hopkins said he was still reviewing the opinion but that "it sounds like he's saying that we can't do the program."

"Obviously we're going to comply with the law. We're not going to break the law," said Hopkins[.]

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130801/US--Arming.Teachers/

Well, that's that.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Well, that's that.

Good!