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Dec. 20, 2012 7:05am Billy Hallowell

HARROLD, Texas (TheBlaze/AP) — As pundits and politicians consider solutions in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, one potential proposal is the arming of educators. While this may seem like a bizarre proposition to some, in the tiny Texas town of Harrold, this practice is hardly controversial.

In fact, children and their parents don’t give much thought to safety at the community’s lone school — mostly because some of the teachers are carrying concealed weapons. In the remote area, the nearest sheriff’s office is 30 minutes away, and people tend to know — and trust — one another. So the school board voted to let teachers bring guns to school.

“We don’t have money for a security guard, but this is a better solution,” Superintendent David 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.”

Harrold, Texas Allows Teachers to Carry Concealed Guns

This Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo shows the sign in front of the Harrold Independent School District in Harrold, Texas. The K-12 school has a policy allowing teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons, a controversial policy that’s now being considered in at least five other states in the wake of last week’s deadly elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Angela K. Brown)

In the awful aftermath of last week’s Connecticut elementary school shooting, lawmakers in a growing number of states — including Oklahoma, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota and Oregon — have said they will consider laws allowing teachers and school administrators to carry firearms at school.

Texas law bans guns in schools unless the school has given written authorization. Arizona and six other states have similar laws with exceptions for people who have licenses to carry concealed weapons.

Harrold’s school board voted unanimously in 2007 to allow employees to carry weapons. After obtaining a state concealed-weapons permit, each employee who wants to carry a weapon must be approved by the board based on his or her personality and reaction to a crisis, Thweatt said.

Employees also must undergo training in crisis intervention and hostage situations. And they must use bullets that minimize the risk of ricochet, similar to those carried by air marshals on planes.

In Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo, the town’s water tower rises above the railroad tracks in Harrold, Texas. The rural town’s lone school has a policy allowing teachers and other employees to carry concealed weapons on campus. Some lawmakers in at least five other states are looking into similar legislation in the wake of last week’s deadly elementary school shooting in Newton, Conn. Anti-gun groups oppose the measure. Credit: AP

CaRae Reinisch, who lives in the nearby community of Elliott, said she took her children out of a larger school and enrolled them in Harrold two years ago, partly because she felt they would be safer in a building with armed teachers.

“I think it’s a great idea for trained teachers to carry weapons,” Reinish said. “But I hate that it has come to this.”

The superintendent won’t disclose how many of the school’s 50 employees carry weapons, saying that revealing that number might jeopardize school security.

The school, about 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth near the Oklahoma border, has 103 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Most of them rarely think about who is carrying a gun.

“This is the first time in a long time that I’ve thought about it,” said Matt Templeton, the principal’s 17-year-old son. “And that’s because of what happened” in Connecticut.

Thweatt said other Texas schools allow teachers to carry weapons, but he would not reveal their locations, saying they are afraid of negative publicity.

The Texas Education Agency said it had not heard of any other schools with such a policy. And the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence did not know of any other districts nationwide that allow school employees to carry concealed handguns.

But that may change soon.

Oklahoma state Rep. Mark McCullough said he is working on a bill that would allow teachers and administrators to receive firearms training through the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training, which would authorize them to carry weapons at school and at school events. Other states are proposing or considering similar measures.

However, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder this week vetoed legislation that would have allowed concealed weapons in schools, churches and day care centers, saying he seeks a more “thoughtful review” that includes school emergency policies and mental health-related issues.

In Texas, guns have an honored place in the state’s culture, and politicians often describe owning a gun as essential to being Texan. At the state Capitol, concealed handgun license holders are allowed to skip the metal detectors that scan visitors.

Gov. Rick Perry has indicated he would prefer to give gun owners the widest possible latitude. Just days after the Connecticut attack, Perry said permit holders should be able to carry concealed weapons in any public place.

Last year, many Texas lawmakers supported a plan to give college students and professors with concealed handgun licenses the right to carry guns on campus, but the measure failed.

Opponents insist that having more people armed at a school, especially teachers or administrators who aren’t trained to deal with crime on a daily basis, could lead to more injuries and deaths. They point to an August shooting outside the Empire State Building, where police killed a laid-off clothing designer after he fatally shot his former colleague. Nine bystanders were wounded by police gunfire, ricochets and fragments.

“You are going to put teachers, people teaching 6-year-olds in a school, and expect them to respond to an active-shooter situation?” said Ladd Everitt, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, who called the idea of arming teachers “madness.”

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner said she would not have felt better if teachers at her children’s Seattle school had been armed during a May shooting at a nearby cafe. A gunman killed four people at the cafe and another woman during a carjacking before killing himself. The school went on lockdown as a precaution.

“It would be highly concerning to me to know that guns were around my kids each and every day. … Increasing our arms is not the answer,” said Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-founder and CEO of MomsRising.org.

Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign, said focusing on arming teachers distracts from the “real things” that could help prevent a school shooting “and at worse it furthers a dangerous conversation that only talks about guns as protection without a discussion about the serious risks they present.”

As the debate continues, Harrold’s school plans to leave its policy unchanged.

“Nothing is 100 percent at all. … But hope makes for a terrible plan, hoping that (a tragedy) won’t happen,” Thweatt said. “My question is: What have you done about it? How have you planned?”

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Comments (98)

AlaskaBob
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:07am
Commend them for going against the grain of the progressive mantra which I sum up as:

“Through individual weakness we have collective safety.. through individual helplessness we have collective security.”

The Left is also trying to instill the ultimate injury to the human spirit…. hopelessness. That will be their shining triumph if they pull it off. All power has to reside in state to achieve “a more perfect union” as envisioned by our present leadership. Nice to see local people protecting their own… a sizable “bump in the road” which hopefully reinforces the wall between bad government and Rights of the People.

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- OUTLAW_WEALTH
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:18am
  Hear hear! I applaud your sentiments.
  
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- AlaskaBob
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:30am
  As a physician I have often stated:
  
  Liberty like good health, once lost, is hard to regain.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 1:04pm
  The BEST NEWS I have heard ALL WEEK!!!
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:43pm
  “You are going to put teachers, people teaching 6-year-olds in a school, and expect them to respond to an active-shooter situation?” said Ladd Everitt, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, who called the idea of arming teachers “madness.”
  
  So, should we just tell teachers to wait for the police? Isn’t that what happened at CT? Liberals must be brain dead.
  
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2GodBeTheGlory
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:57am
Although this is a sad situation, where childish people who have access to weapons can destroy so many lives and place fear in many more, we as a people need to see the real problem. We as a people have failed our children, our faith, and ourselves. By abdicating what we should teach as parents, people of the community, grandparents, and politicians we have created a nation that states that “knowledge” is more important than wisdom and maturity. We have reinforced that schools are more important than taken care of each other, the homeless, the meek, and the infirm. We’ve exchanged compassion for “me”. We have lost the fight. We have lost ourselves. We have giving everything for “feel good”. We have let money guide ourselves and our children by saying “good education will get you a more money”. So I ask you, who is your God? What is your focus? What do you follow and how does it compare to Christ?
For those that think that I do not want guns, think again, however, I’m looking at the bigger picture as to why this happens, not a band-aid to the cancer. Also for those that thought the Apostles where not packing, think again. Where do you think Peter got the sword to cut of the ear of the palace Gard? They did not have “police” on the roads back then. You traveled in large groups with weapons or took your chances.

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jscottkemp
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:55am
If someone is pointing a gun at you, your wife, your child – would you rather be armed yourself? or not?

I do not have to think very hard about the answer.

It is my job to protect myself and my family before it is the government’s job.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:43am
  the goverment will not protect your family locally but the police will show up to write reports and investigate afterwards
  
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- Exiled
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:52pm
  It’s not that the police WILL not show up to protect your family, it’s that they CANNOT. Unless you want to pay an awful lot of taxes to hire a policeman for every corner. Yes, the “when seconds count the police are only minutes away,” cliche is absolutely true, but people use it to imply that the police do not care, or they don’t drive fast enough, or they’re too busy eating donuts, and that’s not the case at all.
  
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davecorkery
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:33am
In other news, a Texas teacher, packing a .45, was distracted for a moment, her sidearm was grabbed by a kid, and her face was blown off. Oh, well, said genius Rick Perry. Now we have to hire and train another teacher. Now would everyone get back to praying for rain? I don’t think baby jeebus can hear us.

Film at eleven.

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- jscottkemp
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:52am
  Here is the question: If someone is pointing a gun at you (or your wife or child), would you rather have one to point back? or not?
  
  For me, this is a no-brainer. I would rather have a gun to point back at the madman.
  
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- themudflap
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:12am
  It is called concealed carry. Get it. If a student sees it, it isn’t very well concealed. You people are stupid. You think the criminals are going to see a sign declaring something a gun free zone and go “Darn it, I cannot go in there with my gun.” What actually happens is they go there because there are no guns and they are not worried about being shot back. The idiot in Colorado had a choice of six movie theatres within two miles of his house. He picked the only one that did not allow guns. You people make it easier for this stuff to happen. Oh and the excuse that it would lead to more people being shot is disproved time and time again. People have stopped many a potential mass slaying with their weapon and it is not even reported. Does not fit the disarm American agenda. Which is what this is all about. People are arming themselves more and more because they know the idiots are out there and the government is doing nothing to protect them and the police cannot be everywhere. At least not yet.
  
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- OUTLAW_WEALTH
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:22am
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t47Y7XH3YJM
  
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- taintso
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:42am
  If we took back our schools, the gun grabbing typ kids would be in institutions.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Its the American cowards, afraid of the other, of the UN and fantasies about black helicopter that sucking on their guns to help them sleep at night.
  
  The gun culture is all about fear and the NRA, Pratt and others spoon feed you fools paranoia so that the gun makers can drown the nation in more tools of death.
  
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- OIF3survivor
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 5:51pm
  Well I see Enci has raised his ignorant head again. How about showing any research, any data, anything other than sensationalized headlines to disprove the efficacy of firearm usage in violent crime prevention? Are you even capable of a clearly thought out and well argued response or will you just continuously provide all of us here laughably absurd and poorly written blather? To be honest as US Army Iraq vet, father of 3, productively working, college grad with honors, I will gladly continue to take your silly posts apart on occasion like TA 50, with reasoned argumentation and fact…just as in the case of the Benghazi cover-up and your hilarious ‘Weiner’ assertions.
  Perhaps before you run your mouth about NRA criminality and lies your should at least casually peruse the most current editions of:
  More Guns, Less Crime: John Lott (the most comprehensive use of county and state data regarding the effects of concealed carry on crime extant and even Lott’s detractors have been unable to argue the conclusions of Lott’s analysis or methodology)
  Point Blank: Gary Kleck (fairly exhaustive survey of the number of defensive uses of firearms with annual estimates of over 2 million times)
  The Samurai, the Mountie and the Cowboy: David B Kopel (comparative analysis of crime and suicide data from the US and Switzerland, as well as industrial nations that have made gun ownership difficult or outright banned it)
  Come back once you’ve done this-or continue making a fool of
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:18pm
  encinom
  
  The gun culture is all about fear & the NRA blah, blah. blah, …
  
  ***
  Dude, The desire for self defense using guns came long before the NRA. It is not irrational, unless you are going to call people throughout the ages in many locals gun crazy.
  
  “The National Rifle Association was first chartered in the state of New York on November 17, 1871″
  
  “the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 asserted that, “the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state”.
  
  Encinom, one again you were pawned.
  
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- Proud Stray Dog
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:33pm
  @ Encinut
  
  Have you ever had a perp point a gun at you? Have you ever seen the utter look of fear on his face when you responded by pointing one back at him? Do you know how long it takes for the above scenario to transpire? I’d say no, and you are a demented basement dweller suffering from short man syndrome
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:54pm
  BS. No one is proposing we just hand over a loaded handgun to any teacher and have them wave that handgun in the air and dance around with it for everyone to see. Common sense escapes the liberal mind, every time. Has he ever considered that that firearm may be stored in a locked safe, or worn concealed, out of sight, and kept unloaded until needed? He shows no facts whatsoever to support his claim that a kid may steak or has ever stolen a gun from an armed teacher and done harm to others. He lives in lala land. He ignores reality and the fact that maniacs have already gone into schools killings defenseless souls that had zero chance of survival because they weren’t adequately prepared to equalize the danger. The liberal mind is sick.
  
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electrician8
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:23am
Why can’t ******** see that almost ALL of these mass shooting happen in their feel good GUN FREE ZONES. Someone mentioned Fort Hood was the exception, but they are wrong. From personal experience the military(federal government) won’t let its soldiers(EXCEPT MPs) carry a loaded firearm any were but a combat zone or the rifle range. You never even see ammo and weapons in the same truck. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT don’t even trust our own SOLDIERS, so why would they want to trust the citizens.

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- huntinwabbits
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:49am
  I agree with you however my comment about Fort Hood was not about people so much carrying as it was specifically that “it is a place filled with guns and people who know how to use them.” At a gun show you cannot have a loaded weapon either. But it takes a very unintelligent person to think they are going to walk into a gun show and start firing without knowing that in about 5 seconds all those unloaded weapons will be loaded. Point being the Fort Hood shooter is an even more rare case than school shooters who will cower at the sight of other having a gun pointed back at them. Schools are not filled with guns and typically not filled with people who know how to use them which is why they are such prime targets. If that were to change than surely the number of people will to go into a school to kill would decrease. Or at the very least the number of people mourning afterwards would decrease significantly. But you’re spot on. It’s gun free zones that are the problem. You don’t have mass murders other places.
  
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- Derek01
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:27am
  Maybe we should give parents a choice. Send your kid to a posted gun free zone or one posted protected by concealed carry. Hopefully nothing will happen but the odds will favor the protected. It’s their kids, their choice
  
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- roostercogburn
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:00pm
  Hey, we used to all have live rounds with us, you had to account for every live round issued to you, but now, everyone has a rifle at least, and no ammo for it, it’s all locked up..
  
  Now I want you to think about something, do some research about all the military folks killing themselves, or their whole family’s, they are forcing all the guy’s to take some new drug before they are allowed to go into the field, they clam it’s safe and will allow them to go into a battle for day’s without sleep, look at those shootings, I am glad to be old, with these morons in charge nothing good will come out of any of this, but I worry about my son having a good life, we remodeled our house in the Philippines and are thinking about leaving, sad to think that my son could have a better life in a third world country than he could do in what used to be the USA, the progressive types took it into the toilet fast, even faster than they did in Germany, or China, they claim to be so smart, but are some of the most stupid people I have ever delt with, they are easily confused with facts.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:26am
I’d be honored to send my kid to that school. I wish there was a way I could make that happen.

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- bluehen
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:37am
  @FLAGWAVINGPATRIOT
  
  I guess you could always move there. Moron
  
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Battle1925
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:10am
Look i’m 13 and even though i’m homeschool and my parents have guns to keep me safe. Now if we didn’t have guns in my house would be robbed,killed,and kidnapped. My dad has told me how to use a gun, I’ve been to gun ranges and so forth and feel safe in my house.

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Stab_friendly
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:32am
Texas 47th in education… Correlation??

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- huntinwabbits
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:43am
  With the number of liberals moving there it won’t be long before they are 50th. Or in liberal world, 57th.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:21am
  And that has nothing to do with the huge amount of students that can’t even speak english and had little to know previous education…..
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:22am
  I meant to post NO not know
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:54am
  Sanity. No more target rich environs. Stabby, guess how many of your lib buds are lining up to try to breach this school? Once you let a lib terrorist know the odds aren’t in it’s favor, they will go to the lib target rich environment. Not to mention it is fiscally prudent, which libs hate also. Libs are so predictable, and sick.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:56am
  Derp?
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:57am
  Considering TX economy is better by itself than the entire nation, I’ll take their education over the standards of the US Federal Govt. You can keep your northeast liberal education, we see how well it’s doing you up there.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:34am
  That’s the reason why my kids go to private school. All parents need to make the sacrifice to home school or give their kids a private education.
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:41am
  @HUNTINWABBITS
  
  Obviously you’re a moron. You do realize that the top 5 states in the union with the highest rankings are blue states, right? So, by your logic, if more “liberals” moved there, their ranking would increase and not decrease. Let me guess, you were home schooled?
  
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- huntinwabbits
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:05am
  @BLUEHEN
  
  See, here is the issue. I don’t have much faith in the education system. To me, it’s a place where you come in as anyone you want and walk out as an indoctrinated clone of the liberal teacher. For me, I would prefer to revert schools back to pre-1920s when students were taught to think and not taught to memorize. It is almost to the point where I see Texas being 47th of more of a reason to be there. I’d prefer my children to learn more from me and my church and be supplemented by the local teacher. As for being a moron, I am an engineer. You may take that however you would like.
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:17am
  @HUNTINWABBITS
  
  Back to the 1920′s where there were no colored people in the classrooms and segregeation was a hit with your people? Check. Where teachers were allowed to smash students for not listening? Check. LOL and to learn more from you and your church. Of course you’re a bible thumper. Let me guess, you believe that the shooting happened because prayer was taken out of school? I guess crazy is as crazy does.
  
  As for indoctrinated clone, man.. I can’t even touch that one, its just blazing hot with crazy. So by engineer, you mean someone that sits around all day in his diaper making buildings out of legos. Good luck to you bro.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:17pm
  Hen is clearly a racist. Revert back to racism to argue a lib doctrine.
  
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- huntinwabbits
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 1:25pm
  FUBARED, you read my mind. It takes a liberal to extract ‘racism’ from a concept such as ‘the ideology of how we teach children’. For a moment I thought bluehen was my wife. I’ve never known someone else who was able to take my words and extrapolate something so far fetched that I just sit back and shake my head. =)
  
  BLUEHEN, have you seen the new occupy wall street lego set? It is pretty awesome. My friends and I built a small-scale version of central park (after our diapers were changed of course).
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 1:51pm
  @stab
  My middle son spent a year in New Hampshire playing Junior Hockey and they didn’t offer the classes he needed to graduate in Texas; Four years of Math, Science and Language Arts. As a Junior in a Texas High school he had already completed your blue state graduation requirements.
  
  My oldest son was accepted at Georgetown, Harvard and Brown (oh, and University of Illinois, he applied just for sh**s and giggles). Yeah, Texas public schools suck so he chose to go to University of Texas at Austin instead. He scored in the 99th percentile on both the ACT and SAT.
  
  Education, just like opportunity is what the students make of it.
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:27am
A real solution.

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huntinwabbits
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:20am
Consider the scenarios:

1) American History – Man walks into school with gun
Outcome: Every teacher has a gun; Man dies; Teachers praised; Public calls for more guns to protect their children

2) Present Day – Man walks into school with gun
Outcome: Man is only one with a gun; Children die; Nation mourns; Public calls to make it even harder to obtain guns to protect their children

The advances in technology make America seem smarter but in reality, we’re getting dumber every day.

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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:40am
  You nailed it. They prayed in #1 also. Glad Jesus left a exit. Or we would be screwed.
  
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- Battle1925
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:16am
  Look I’m 13 and even though i’m homeschool and my parents and they have guns. Now if we didn’t have guns we would get robbed and etc but since we have guns I feel so safe.
  
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- kat747
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:03am
  I always said that “You can take the safety off and FIRE
  a lot quicker than you can dial 911″.
  If that Principal in Sandy Hook had one bullet in the chamber
  20 children and 6 teachers would be alive.
  So…save the rest of the children.
  Train teachers and allow them to carry.
  The reason these killers target innocents in schools and
  movie theatres, etc., is because they KNOW people are
  NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY GUNS THERE.
  You don’t see killers shooting people at the grocery store or a
  liquor store or especially at a donut shop….because the risk factor is
  that someone in there more than likely is carrying a loaded
  gun.
  If you don’t like the idea of a teacher with a loaded gun, hire the
  gang members who won’t hestitate for a second to shoot these
  pyschotic freakshows.
  
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COME AND TAKE IT 2121
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:18am
I think it’s a good idea. Most teachers I know are flaming liberals. Doubt they would know which end was the dangerous one. However I’m sure there are a good amount who would be willing to carry to protect there kids. Sad but I think it’s come to this. Oh wait if we just ban assault rifles all will be ok. Never mind.

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rfycom
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:14am
One thing I know from experience is you cannot tell how a person will respond with a gun in their and another pointed at them. I’ve seen the strongest recruits **** their pants. You have those guys in war you know will step up and those you know do not have your back. That is a fact. Put a gun in a teachers hand fending off someone with rapid fire semi-automatic weapons covered in Kevlar, I am not sure you actually get anything other than an added thrill to the attacker.

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- huntinwabbits
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:29am
  There are not too many shootings happening at gun shows or the police station. While the odd things still happen (Fort Hood, etc), knowing a place is filled with guns and people who have been trained to use them is a big deterrence. There is a reason why criminals choose the gun-free zones. The stats show that the mere possibilities of guns keeps the general public safe. It is only the places criminals know are sitting ducks where we have issues.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:48am
  “coveredin Kevlar”….AIM AT THE HEAD!! oH. WAIT!! Their Islamic /libbies!! It’s EMPTY!!
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:01am
  Every time a mass shooter has encountered resistance they’ve turned their gun on themselves and killed themselves. I highly doubt you’ve seen any combat, lib. Call of Duty doesn’t count. It seems you don’t know how to comprehend the written word. We aren’t saying “Arm all teachers”, we’re saying “Give teachers the option to carry if the have a CHL”. I know liberals can’t read, but do try. For your own sake, please try.
  
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- Tampa Ken
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 3:12pm
  Kevlar? Even if you shoot at somebody wearing Kevlar … IT HURTS! and usually knocks them down, usually winded…. so gives you a chance to get up closer. and Shoot them in the head!
  
  Either that or unload your clip and hit an exposed head, arms, or legs.. !!
  
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TheHalfrican
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:12am
I am moving to Texas.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:20am
  I know the feeling. Im having those same thoughts.
  It seems to be one of the ONLY states left where common sense exists.
  Although some Texans will tell you that there are pockets of progressives there too.
  
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- Stab_friendly
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:31am
  Come on Down!!!
  
  Texas is becoming a swing state!!!
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:02am
  Only in Austin. That city is a turd in a punchbowl, it’s best to let it rot.
  
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huntinwabbits
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:06am
I actually had someone tell me they would not want a “24 year old with a gun to protect their children.” I responded by asking if they would rather that 24 year old hide in a closet while their child gets shots and bleeds to death. Unfortunately, most liberals just don’t know how to think. A properly trained 24 year old with a gun is more than suitable to protect. I guess that ignorant liberal forgot that many of the men and women in the military protecting his sorry butt are that “24 year old” person.

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- kat747
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:07am
  Unfortunately those military 24 year olds will be protecting us here in the USA soon.
  
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decendentof56
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:02am
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner said she would not have felt better if teachers at her children’s Seattle school had been armed during a May shooting at a nearby cafe. A gunman killed four people at the cafe and another woman during a carjacking before killing himself.

Ms liberal from Seattle…… Tell me that you would have not felt better knowing the school personnel were armed if the gunman had decided to go to your kids school after taking care of business at the cafe. Pull your liberal head out of your backside.

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M24
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:59am
I think It’s A great Idea ,But I Would Say Have these teachers Trained in Urban Warfare As a GROUP ,They Must know The surroundings and be Trained in All Situtions, Meaning Think ,React ,Commit . They MUST Have A way for Constant Communication In any situation ,There Is More to This Than a Conceald Handgun Licence , Besides it Will Be Exciting.

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StandingUpForAmerica
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:49am
Fact; Gun Free Zones equal= Victim Zones. Defenseless disarmed people are easy pray for the sick of mind and the sick of heart

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RightUnite
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:43am
Good for Texas… Hopefully more schools will smarten up and do the same.

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ares338
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:39am
Most citizens who carry concealed and train continually are better shots than a lot of cops. Cops train just enough to pass their qualification rounds. All of this false compassion for those murdered children is just a ploy to further an agenda of theirs.

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skippy6
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:37am
Common sense!!!!

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DoGooder
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:31am
More reasons that Texas is successful! reasoned intellegence and independence…nondependence independence! Not mindless lemmings that are liberals.

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- chicago76
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:46am
  Finally some intelligent ideas about protecting children while they are in school. Even in the big cities when seconds are important the police are minutes away. So which will it be wishful thinking that taking guns away from the good people will stop crime or the practical thinking of let the teachers be trained and have guns so they can protect the children. I might even suggest deputizing a few teachers at every school if that makes for a better feel good.
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:28am
This is a great idea for small, tight communities.
Not sure it would be the best solution in a place like Philly or Newark though.

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- chicago76
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:49am
  Ok, like someone just said. Children are with them all day and you trust the teachers for that, but you don’t trust them enough to allow them to carry a gun too. Think about it. Don’t let the Obama media destroy your common sense.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:00am
  I’d rather have a conservative teacher carrying a concealed weapon than an unarmed marxist teacher filling my child’s head with nonsense any day. Remember back in the old days when we did’t even know the politics of our teachers? They just taught facts? Wish they were back.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:03am
  Places like Philly and Newark and liberal cesspools. It’s best to leave them disarmed.
  
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CS Lewis FAN
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:26am
Finally, somebody with a good solution. Teachers are trusted enough to care for 30 kids at a time, teach them, guide them, not molest or otherwise harm them. So why not put a gun in their hands to allow real protection? If teachers wanted to hurt your kids, they have all day and any way to do it. This is just another “crisis” they aren’t going to let go to waste. They are coming for your guns. What will you do about it? Speak out!

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Capt_Gregg
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:26am
Common sense prevails in Harrold, Texas.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:17am
Change has come to the nation, and this is one means to ensure the safety of our kids. If an attacker comes onto a school grounds at the least the teachers and the kids they care for will have a chance of survival.

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- blanco5
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:26am
  I’m afraid we’e too late, SNOW.
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:30am
  Blanco – they don’t focus on security & mental health do they. And more clowns coming in this freakshow.
  
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