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TEACHERS ON READING, WRITING, PACKING HEAT
Push surges to allow educators on carry concealed
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Americans appear to have taken up the president’s call for a national discourse on guns in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting.
But Barack Obama may not like the answer they are giving him as a push to permit teachers to carry concealed weapons is gathering steam in several states.
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Following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, lawmakers in several states, including Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina, Oregon and Virginia, have proposed or introduced legislation that would permit teachers with concealed carry permits to voluntarily bring their weapons onto school grounds.
Just days ago, Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell said the state should have a discussion about allowing school staff to carry concealed weapons to protect children. State Delegate Robert Marshall has gone further, proposing a bill that would require school districts to designate some staff members to do so.
Mississippi State Rep. Mike Kelley has filed a bill that would allow teachers to carry concealed weapons. The bill currently has the backing of more than two dozen state lawmakers. Current law prohibits concealed guns unless approved by a school board or official.
Tony Cornish, a state representative in Minnesota, plans to introduce legislation to arm teachers.
“It’s something that we have to face that all of the laws in the world sometimes aren’t just going to work,” Cornish told Minnesota Public Radio. “The cop can’t be everywhere so the best person to defend yourself is yourself.”
In South Carolina, state Rep. Phillip Lowe has introduced a similar proposal that would apply to teachers who have a concealed carry permit. Lowe’s bill would require teachers to complete a training course and notify school officials whenever they bring the weapon on campus. They would also be required to wear the weapon at all times.
The call to arm teachers has sent gun control advocates into a frenzy. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign, said arming teachers sends the wrong message to students.
“It’s saying the only answer to violence is more violence. The only answer to guns is more guns,” Gross said.
The nation’s two largest teachers unions are emphatically against arming teachers. saying it would not keep schools safe.
In a joint letter, the National Education and the American Federation of Teachers said: “Guns have no place in our schools. Period. We must do everything we can to reduce the possibility of any gunfire in schools, and concentrate on ways to keep all guns off school property and ensure the safety of children and school employees.”
The letter called the idea of eliminating the gun-free zones that make schools an easy target and permitting teachers who have concealed carry permits and desire to bring their weapons to school “dangerous.”
“Lawmakers at every level of government should dismiss this dangerous idea and instead focus on measures that will create the safe and supportive learning environments our children deserve.”
President Obama has responded to the Newtown shooting by calling for more gun control, despite the fact Adam Lanza violated multiple gun laws prior to the shooting and Connecticut already has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country.
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that the president wants a host of gun control restrictions that have long been desired by liberals. Carney said Obama wants to require background checks for all private sales of firearms and a ban on semi-automatic weapons that are often labeled assault rifles.
Contrary to media reports, semi-automatic weapons are not military weapons. According to the military definition, assault rifles are fully automatic, meaning once the trigger is pulled, the weapon continues to fire until the trigger is released or the magazine is emptied. These weapons have been illegal for private citizens to own since 1934, unless they obtain a special permit.
By contrast, semi-automatic weapons require the shooter to pull the trigger for each round. Congress has changed the definition of assault weapons to include semi-automatics that look like military weapons.
Saying the Newtown shooting must force lawmakers to action, Obama has tasked Vice President Joe Biden with creating a task force to present solutions for gun violence by the end of the year.
Despite an initial push for stricter gun control laws, there is evidence that the trend may be dissipating.
Last week, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who received an A rating from the NRA, said it was “time to move beyond rhetoric” over gun control.
However, he has since clarified his remarks, saying he was only calling for a conversation on the issues surrounding the shooting.
“I’m not supporting a ban on anything. I’m supporting a conversation on everything,” Manchin told West Virginia MetroNews.
‘It’s about time’
Larry Pratt, president of Gun Owners of America, told WND that despite calls by media and Democrats for gun control, his organization has received strong support from the public, particularly since his well-circulated interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan.
Pratt argued that the way to prevent shootings like those at Sandy Hook is to get rid of laws that prevent people from protecting themselves.
“The feedback that we have gotten from people who were not members of Gun Owners of America was to the effect of it’s about time somebody said that,” Pratt told WND. “It’s been very affirming.”
Pratt said that, ultimately, “we’re going to look back and be very grateful to Piers Morgan for having perhaps provided the turning point in the debate.”
“The response that we got to the interview with Morgan indicates that a lot of Americans have just had it,” he said. “The way he said what he said reminded a lot of people that’s why we’re no longer British.”
In the interview, Morgan called Pratt’s views “complete and utter nonsense.”
The host went into a meltdown after Pratt noted that Europe has a higher violent crime rate than America. Morgan called Pratt an “unbelievably stupid man” and charged he didn’t give a d— about the gun murder rate in America.
Pratt said the recent shooting at an Oregon mall showed what might have happened if teachers were allowed to concealed carry in schools.
“The shooting out at Oregon shows how it should’ve happened in Newtown. A man was in a mall when he heard the shots,” Pratt explained. “He had a concealed carry firearm, and even it was against the mall’s policy he had his weapon. When he ran to the scene of the crime with his gun out, the shooter ran away and committed suicide.”
“Had a teacher pulled out a weapon in Newtown, it’s a likely possibility the shooter would’ve committed suicide long before he likely did. The one thing that seems to be in these people’s twisted minds is, ‘I will determine when I die,’” Pratt said.
Several states already permit teachers with concealed carry permits to bring their weapons to school. Utah has allowed teachers and private citizens to bring their weapons to school for several years.
In Harrold, Texas, the local school board has had an “arm the teachers” policy in place since 2008. David Thweatt, superintendent of the Harrold School District, told the Associated Press that in the years since the policy has been in place, there has not been a single safety issue involving students, which he attributes to the high level of training the teachers receive.
“Their accuracy is probably going to be 100 percent. The only people who have more shooting training in the state of Texas than my teachers are Highway Patrol,” Thweatt said. “A shooter could take out a guard or officer with a visible, holstered weapon, but our teachers have master’s degrees, are older and have had extensive training. And their guns are hidden. We can protect our children.”
In Connecticut, permit holders are allowed to carry in schools, provided the school gives them permission.
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Earl Johnson • 16 hours ago −
As long as politicians and celebrities are allowed the use of armed body guards we should be able to do the same. They work for us. the politicians and celebrities seem to forget this.
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aPLWBinAK • 19 hours ago
Those 'gun free zones' are turning out to not be the best idea....they provide target rich environments for evil scumbags intent on visiting unspeakable harm and carnage upon our innocent and defenseless children.
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gb • 9 hours ago
School boards and teacher union leaders are the top of the heap in undermining the United States.
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daddyg321 • 11 hours ago
All males between 18 and 45 ARE members of the malitia and as such it is their DUTY to protect themselves and others no matter where they are, gun free zone, refered to as free fire zone do nothing to protect any one but the criminal and the government. Have a security booth where an attendant "buzzes" people in after their business and ID has been established, after that there is no reason why any parent or staff shouldn't be armed. We guard our replacable money and property with guns shouldn't we at least as much for our kids?
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John Whitworth • 3 hours ago
hey stupid teachers union you want to talk dangerous try sandy hook and you bufoons own that with your fool gun free zones
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Constitution Ally • 7 hours ago
Concealed carry at school avoids distracting students and attracting unwanted attention. Don't make yourself a target in an active shooter crisis. Keep the element of surprise in your concealed carry holster.
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Sarah Mcd • 18 hours ago
I think it is absolutely wrong to ask a teacher to protect my children in that manner. That said, I think qualified teachers should be allowed to carry concealed if they want.
However I may not be qualified to comment on this article as a homeschool mom who packs. I do want my kids to be protected, but I can't ask another to do it
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claspur Sarah Mcd • 17 hours ago
Sarah... reread your comment. The first two sentences are 'conundrumatic', dear?
Anyone in our school systems that are willing to 'Keep and Bare' are way-okay in my book.
These schoolyard massacres totally piss me off, allthewhile the anti-gun nuts don't want anyone armed to stop this mayhem.
That line of thought is totally retarded.
Makes me sick when any of these massacres happen, that I wasn't in-position to stop-it, dead in its' tracks.
Read on a search about Suzanna Hupp, at Luby's, and that masscre-there, in '91.
She reached for her gun, but then she realized it was in her truck's glove compartment.
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polarisgold Sarah Mcd • 2 hours ago
You, Sarah, are to me the hope that America will rise to its potential once again. Home School Mom's and the few Dad's that find themselves in that position have the most important job in the world and I salute them!
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Larry • 4 hours ago
“It’s something that we have to face that all of the laws in the world sometimes aren’t just going to work,” Cornish told Minnesota Public Radio.
Sometimes???
There is an old saying: "You cannot legislate morality."
No external law forces or strong-arms ANY individual into obedience of morality. Self control and following a moral code is a choice and motivation of the mind of each person on their own.
Laws do one thing and one thing only. They codify the inward morals of a greater society and provide a measuring stick for society to identify law breakers. This is the ONLY thing law does. Law does NOT PREVENT ANYTHING! It reveals. It sheds light on the inwardly lawless and those without SELF CONTROL.
So, when all you lib-TURD pukes start your screeching and ranting about needing "gun control" and taking away "assault weapons" from LAW ABIDING people, then YOU become FOOLS (e.g. lacking wisdom).
How's that for a "national discussion"?
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gb • 9 hours ago
Obumma is in the position he is today for one reason and that is the result of the domination by marxist communist infiltration of our media, both tv and hollywood and most of all the American Education system. It has happened because of the self centered, selfish, (me, me, me) society that has been created. Pure APATHY !
The Communist (democrat) party is finished in America !
We will continue to wake people up to what they have become. The education system is the first that needs to be fixed. It is marxist communist dominated and that must end, or we lose all future generations of our children.
That needs to become the first battlefront, alongside taking back the congress and senate.
The education system has been the primary tool of the left, communists, marxists and has been used to brainwash the generations of our children.
What you see today is the result of that.
Education is being used to undermine America.
Until you get hardaxx about getting these communists out of the positions they hold you will lose your children and grandchildren to them !!!
It is the responsibility of the parent to protect your children from harm. Indoctrination by evil is as harmful as it gets. It destroys nations and your childrens minds and morality.
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claspur • 17 hours ago
Read about "Luby's"
A gun in the glove compartment-instead of in Suzanna Hupp's purse could've stopped that massacre. (she lost her mom and dad that day, at Luby's :o(
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paininthebuttocks • 19 hours ago
Why let only the teachers to have all of the fun!
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ozarkey • 18 hours ago
Why hide a gun This CCW permit thing is sleazy. Wear it so all can see instead of hiding it like a 2 bit hood
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Rickj27 ozarkey • 15 hours ago
Showing off your gun serves no useful purpose, it immediately identifies the open carry person as the one to take out, it attracts attention, and it disturbs a lot of people. Carry concealed and no one knows, it doesn't attract attention, and it allows you to likely retain your weapon in the event you DO NEED to take out an assailant. If you carry open, as I said, that will be the first thing to be addressed, your weapon.
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paininthebuttocks Rickj27 • 9 hours ago
An armed society is a polite society. No one is going to mess with someone who is armed. It pays to advertise.
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gb ozarkey • 9 hours ago
No, the slimeballs need not know who carries, and need to fear just who may or may not be armed. More good people need to become armed and proficient.
Talk to the folks in Chiloquin, OR. and Kennisaw, GA. THEY KNOW. Crime No longer exists there. Everyone is armed.
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polarisgold ozarkey • 2 hours ago
The only problem with wearing your pistol open is the chance that someone takes it from you. Being messed up physically I'd never carry open and I don't think teachers should either. If some scumbag were to grab for my pistol while walking by people the scumbag would have a great chance of taking it from me......
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John Whitworth ozarkey • 3 hours ago
the only way carry open would good is if everyone there has 1 then it is great otherwise let the bad guy try to figure out WHO is packing because with cowards any and all things are fair nothing is off the table
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Larry • an hour ago
The school where B.O. and M.O. send their girls has armed guards as a matter of school policy. This is why the "elites of D.C." send their kids there because they know they will be protected by men carrying guns (not just armed teachers).
So, for you lib-TURDS saying that We the People cannot arm our schools in the face of the REAL DANGER our children face -- well -- you are simply ... FOOLS!
I bet lib-TURD's B.O. and M.O. are VERY OK with the guards and yet they want to deny We the People the very same privilege which is already given to us in the second amendment? Need we say mo?
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Lemonjello King Larry • 13 minutes ago
I always like your posts. This is more evidence of the power grab and the intentional double standards of the libs.
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ronbrueske • 4 hours ago
In Texas, it is legal for a teacher to carry a gun while in school, all they need is permission from their individual school district. The Harold Independent School District in Texas, has for a few years now, allowed teachers to carry a gun while in school. Their statement "It is asinine to have schools as gun free zones" is spot on.
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Dan Scheper • 6 minutes ago
Until every crazy, every career criminal, every disalousioned grad that didn't get the job of his dreams handed to him like his leftist professors promised him, every mentally ill person walking the streets, every Islamic terrorist, every gang banger and every other lunatic now walking our streets has been put in prison, THE ONLY REAL ANSWER IS TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN from these sub-humans while at school with armed teachers and armed guards. These guards could be volunteer parents, or retired folks. The NRA could quickly develop a school guardian training program and have it implemented nation wide within a few months and our children will again be safe! Does anyone think for one second that there are not armed guards at the school Obamas kids attend.?
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