If I decide to let my boy attend public school (still leaning more towards homeschooling at this point), I’d feel infinitely better knowing that his teachers were trained, licensed, and allowed to carry handguns while teaching.
Via CBS St. Louis:
St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch says it is time to talk about arming civilian school personnel following Friday’s massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, comparing it to arming airline pilots after September 11, 2001.
“I see it no differently,” he said. “Pilots have been armed now for many many years, we’ve not had another hijacking and the issue is, for the bad guy, he doesn’t know which airplane he’s getting on, if the pilot is armed or not.”
Fitch said the killing will not be stopped by legislation or laws. “If there’s somebody that’s really hellbent on doing something like this, they’re not going to care what the law is.”
The chief is adamant about his plans but realizes his calls for arming school workers will be met with resistance.
“We touched on this issue with heroin problem with schools. When we first were talking about the heroin problem in St. Louis, many of the school officials ran and they just hid out, they said ‘nope, we don’t have a heroin problem in our schools,’” Fitch said.
Related Posts
Email This Post
⋅
Print This Post
First of all there is no way in Hades that a law like this would ever be put in place in any large or medium-sized city. There may be a few rural areas and small towns where something like this could fly, but definitely no cities.
Secondly, the overwhelming majority of teachers in America are politically located somewhere between Michael Moore and Josef Stalin. They are not going to start carrying guns, no matter what.
never say never!!!