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South Dakota Gov. Signs Law Allowing Teachers to Carry Guns in the Classroom

Mar. 8, 2013 1:56pm Madeleine Morgenstern

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South Dakota Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Friday signed into law a bill to allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom.

The education community stiffly opposed the measure, according the Rapid City Journal. With it, school boards can decide whether to adopt “sentinel programs” to arm teachers or other school personnel with guns.

Though some states have provisions in their gun laws allowing teachers to carry firearms in the classroom, South Dakota’s law is believed to be the first in the nation to specifically allow it, according to the New York Times.

Calls came to arm teachers after the shooting massacre at a Connecticut elementary school in December, with supporters saying doing so could prevent future tragedies.

South Dakota school administrators and teachers said arming personnel could lead to accidental shootings and put weapons in the hands of inadequately trained people, the Associated Press reported.

The new law doesn’t force school districts to arm teachers or force teachers to carry guns, according to the AP, and local law enforcement agencies will have to sign off on a school’s sentinel program.

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skippy6
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:14pm
My first choice of states to move to from this nightmare called MN…..I am working on a new comedy series called Frankin and Dayton…It’s about two bumbling idiots that have all kinds of crazy ideas……

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- BevGail
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 5:09pm
  I KNOW!! How can Minnesota be surrounded by states with so much common sense and we are stuck with this Dork for a governor??
  
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- jlightning1
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 5:54pm
  Just like fire extinguishers, there should be at least one AR in every school .. for use in an emergency by a select group teachers or administrators and training and practice using it should be mandatory…
  My school district has employed un-armed security guards and its a joke.. I guess if there is an event like Sandy Hook we know who will be the first to go down in this district.. Hint “NY”
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:10pm
  WILL Smith and Wesson introduce a new handgun called the Teacher Special 38 with LASER sight.
  
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- ALL4FREEDOM
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:12am
  How, BEVGAIL? You elected them. Now get busy and UNelect them. This time, be careful what you vote for. Better yet, consider running yourself.
  
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- NoSleeper
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 6:23am
  SD and a few others are on the right track. Check out WY, too. A lot of common sense and individual liberties, plus no inclome tax, low sales tax, etc.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:51am
  They will be arrested by Holder since all schools have those “Gun Free Zone” signs. I think it is a felony to take them down. I say ignore them. I walk past them all the time with my Titan double barrel derringer loaded with.410 on top and .45 on the bottom in my boot.Thirty years ago my wife carried a single shot derringer loaded with .22 LR in her purse. Most places are adding “Rape Free Zone & Violence Free Zone” signs. How’s that working out?
  
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- skippy6
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 6:50pm
  @freedom…. Frankins win was rigged!!! His was the deciding vote for Barrys social care BS!!
  
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- franklinmintjulep
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:42am
  now all they have to do is find sanity in the public school system….or is that requirement out the window
  
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S.D.BORN
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:05pm
The new law isn’t just for teachers, but for “staff” – anyone from the janitor all the way up to the superintendent. School districts that want to implement the law must first develop a plan from the school board, which then needs to be signed off on by the county sheriff, so ultimately the county sheriff has the final say.

If the plan is approved, any staff member wishing to carry must undergo a thorough background check and several hours of weapons training.

I can’t see many school districts in South Dakota implementing the plan, but it does away with dangerous “gun-free zones”.

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- tajloc
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:25am
  Nice to see us all approve of getting back the right to bear arms… We do not notice that this right is not given by anyone. It is a right to protect oneself (and your kids in loco parentis for a teacher) given by almight God.
  Don’t fall for the narrative eg. “Whew it is great to be able once again to bear arms in school”
  I am sure many teachers have been packing since Colombine in Colorado.
  
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- goodman80
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 2:57pm
  As a staff member in a SD school district. I can see many pros and cons with this new law. I think it is great that we are once again allowed to carry on campus, but cant believe that many of the administrations in the state will go for this. I do have a concealed carry permit and use it most of the time. I do not get paid enough though to put my life on the line, especially with four kids of my own at home. My priority lies with my family. There are ready able and willing staff members in district that would gladly take the risk. Yet some I would not trust to handle a firearm and would support daunting testing of their mental state. Not to mention that there would need to be rigourous safety training that would rival any law enforcement agencies own training. It will definantly deter which is the best thing that has come of this law, at least until it is discovered which districts utilize the practice. The threat is not found as much in sd as it is elsewhere, but I fear that the Gov. may have just put a target on the Sd. School systems for attacks from these madmen that are then sensationalized in the media in the liberal war against the founding fathers and their values.
  
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Joshua81
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:01pm
Sad thing is, SD is probably one of the places in this country that you would most likely have the least concern of anything happening in a school anyway. Places that actually would need something like this Cali, Chicago, NY, Houston, will never have a law passed like this. Besides in most of those places the teachers are the ones turning students in for pop tarts, they wouldn’t bring a mean ol’ gun to school even if was legal and they knew it would save someones life.

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- Grey Eagle
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:47pm
  A school district in TX has had armed school personnel for awhile. There are likely more. TX is in the forefront of second amendment rights and protecting the children.
  
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- integrican
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:07pm
  Utah has had armed teachers for many years.
  Total school shootings to date? ……..compiling data………compiling data……..ZERO!
  Although, an unrelated domestic violence case spilled over onto a school parking lot when some woman went nutso on her son’s ex-girlfriend or something like that.
  
  Texas on the forefront?
  Can you “open carry” firearms in Tejas? LOL!
  
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valiant1776
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:53pm
As long as the teachers are trained, certified, selected and given permission by the school administrator, board or district, and the gun remains concealed, until needed for such an extreme emergency, go for it. Only irrational liberals or deluded progressives would oppose such a “common sense” law.

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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:32pm
  Bwahahahah…….encinom, I thought you were serious there for a second
  
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- Patriot72
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:32pm
  @encinom So you’d much rather have more open season, gun free zones? And you claim to care about kids? What a pathetic sham. Anti-constitutionalist, like yourself, care about the State and its ability to control its people, not the kids. At least the lie is transparent and more Americans see right through it.
  
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- john vincent
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:33pm
  -enci
  
  Valiant post is excellent in every respect, and you bring a poisonous retort with your predictability of nonsense——why would you want to dirty such a good remark????????????
  
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- Vision Harry
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:38pm
  Enemanom,How do you even find the “On Button” with that Playskool, “Baby’s First Computer”
  
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normalmom
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:52pm
One thing definatly needs to be done, training for the teacher.

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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:27pm
  Nobody ever regrets an education.
  
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woodyee
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:50pm
Gosh, I don’t know how to go with this – on the one hand, there’s Texas and the ‘recently’ discovered SSCOPE program, and now we’re arming the very group of people infecting the minds of our youth with extreme hoplophobia…

I suppose it depends on the school?

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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:52pm
  Better do your homework WOODYEE…or else.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:57pm
  It is a dilemma but I would go with arming the teacher because we can’t have a cop in every classroom.
  Could some teacher ‘go postal’ and take out some kids? Sure he/she could do that there’s no guarantees in life and nobody can guarantee total safety so this is probably the best option.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:59pm
  I see your point. You forgot to mention the huge public unions behind them. Our country needs to wake the f up.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:46pm
You can’t have a cop on every corner or in the classroom so this is a great idea. If the perp knows in advance that the teacher is armed that in and of itself will deter the perp in most cases since they’re cowards. Psychopaths on the other hand will attack regardless but the teacher will at least have a chance when armed.

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- missdagnytaggart
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:54pm
  So proud of South Dakota. We Midwesterners have sense!
  
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- LucienTHackenpupea
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 4:25pm
  Chicago and Detroit are also in the “Midwest”.
  
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- goodman80
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 3:10pm
  lucien, detroit and chicago are as about as midwest as dc or nyc. Denver(aka lil, Cali) would be midwest then too?
  
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- goodman80
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 3:24pm
  fairly certain that miss taggert is speaking of the rural midwest not the liberal breeding grounds of such places like chicago, denver, detroit, minn., clevland……
  
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KalanVA
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:45pm
It is nice to see a government FOR the people…congrats SD!

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dajones
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:44pm
what? You didn’t get your free ammo stamps from the government? I’m poor, too poor to be able to buy ammo and practice my 2nd amendment rights. Obama has graciously bought huge amounts of ammo…it must be to provide free ammo for the needy. After all women need free condom stamps from the tax payer to be able to exercise their rights because condoms are soooo expensive. I demand my share of Obama’s ammo stock pile. Hear that BO?

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- Joshua81
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:59pm
  great comment
  
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- RedRay777
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 6:25pm
  Excellent idea. Redistribution of the Ammo. The gov’t has, literally, hoards of ammo. They should redistribute tha to the poor. I like your idea.
  
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- goodman80
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 2:23pm
  Cant….. stop….laughing.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:44pm
They just reduced the chances of a columbine type attack by 50% whether a single teacher decide to carry a gun or not. Probably more like 95%..

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Tickdog
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:36pm
Way to go South Dakota!!!!

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G.E.R
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:33pm
This is so stupid I’m actually excited to see this end up tragically

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:41pm
  You’re one of those psychopaths,maybe you should apply for a job with this worthless POS regime you’d fit right in.
  
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- normalmom
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:45pm
  What you mean the sicko get taken out before the kids so the liberal politicians can’t use it to steal our rights. Not to mention turn this nation into the new soviet union or nazi germany.
  
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- Thehulk
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:46pm
  G E R… Your a douche bag!!!
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:57pm
  I’m not sick. I’m watching with sympathetic contempt the circling of the drain of once promising country. And every single one of us is responsible.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:58pm
  You’re sick. Why the hell should the school call for someone with a gun to come to their rescue, and wait 20 minutes, wihout any defense, when they can have someone, trained and certified to properly and safely handle a gun, almost immediately deter or terminate any extreme threat before it becomes horribly irrepairable? Then again, the extremist liberal (Marxist) lacks logic and reason, so why ask.
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:12pm
  I’m realist. It wasn’t all that long ago in New York, when the police responded to a man shooting a gun. The police engaged him and 9 bystanders were shot. All 9 bystanders were shot by the police and they were supposedly trained professionals. What chances do kids with an untrained, emotional teacher with a gun have…very little chance.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:22pm
  You would.
  
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- schveiguy
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 4:19pm
  G E R, for that one incident involving police officers shooting innocent bystanders, there are tends of thousands of incidents where officers shoot only the bad guy. In order to be a realist you have to examine reality, not a teeny tiny little piece of it.
  
  I suppose, also, we better let the trained psychopaths with guns decide who lives and dies. Forget about defense, you can’t possibly be trained enough, even COPS aren’t! It’s like Bloomberg says, there is no point to having a gun, if someone knocks on your door and says “I’m here to kill you,” it will take you too long to get that gun out of the safe in order to be effective. Better to just let him kill you before someone gets hurt.
  
  I’m surprised you aren’t calling for the elimination of police guns, since they are so dangerous.
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 6:44pm
  @schveiguy
  In 2012, there were 53 officer-involved shootings, resulting in 25 civilians killed and 28 wounded, including a 14-year-old boy. By your standards if your not one those killed or wounded those stats are acceptable.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:40pm
  @G.E.R According to that logic, cars should be banned immediately, as well as all sorts of medical practices that require surgeries or intense care. You do know that malpractice ranks thousands of times way higher than officers killing civilians. And that cars kill tens of thousands of more innocent civilians than guns do. Then again, you’re an idiot.
  
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- schveiguy
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 11:39pm
  G E R:
  
  Not sure where you get your stats. Looking on wikipedia, there were 583 deaths by officer shootings last year.
  
  Perusing through those, I see most of them were justified.
  
  Also, note that Officers chase after bad guys. Or are targeted by them. It’s more likely they have to use their guns to defend themselves because they HAVE to put themselves in harm’s way. This is not the case for teachers. They only need to use their guns in the most black-and-white obvious situation — active shooter in a school. No need to be on edge, no need to expect the worst from strangers. If you see someone with a gun in your school, shooting students, shoot him back. Very simple.
  
  The SD plan will be a resounding success, despite your sadistic hopes for the death of children to prove your point. Sorry to disappoint. I only hope that the plan discourages all would-be murderers from attacking any schools in SD, that would be the best result.
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:45am
  @schveiguy
  The stats provided by wiki are for all officer involved shootings. The stats I posted are for just officer involved shootings of bystanders
  
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- schveiguy
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 1:32am
  GER, OK, I found your statistics. They are for Harris County, Texas, including mainly Houston. They don’t appear to have anything to do with bystanders that I can tell, the “backing” data is from newspaper articles talking about officer shootings of suspects. They are put out by a site that calls for officers to be held accountable for these shootings (called civiliansdown), which are not described in any detail whatsoever (no idea why they were shot, or whether it was justified). In all these cases, the officers were not “true-billed” which means a grand jury did not indict them.
  
  So you want me to believe that Houston shootings that were not ever found by a grand jury to be unlawful, which mostly occurred while chasing or trying to obtain suspects, somehow translates to South Dakota teachers being able to stop or incapacitate an active shooter in a school with force? This is what you are trying to tell me?
  
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- schveiguy
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 1:44am
  Oh wait! I found the stories of these bystanders on the civiliansdown web site. This one is my favorite so far:
  
  Harlem Harold Lewis, II. b/m, 21, wounded and later died when shot twice by Bellaire PD officers W. Bledsoe and D. Clawson. Lewis fled when Bellaire PD Cpl. Jimmie Norman tried to stop him for a traffic violation. He crashed into the dumpster of an auto body shop, and when Norman approached, ordering him to get out of the car, Lewis refused. When Norman tried to pull him out of the car, Lewis shot him, along with a bystander that tried to help, killing both of them. Lewis then ran, but was shot when officers Bledsoe and Clawson arrived and found him hiding nearby. Lewis was hospitalized and died 6 days later on Dec. 30. Lewis is the 24th person known to have been shot to death this year by Harris County police officers.
  
  How devastating that the two officers shot the innocent Lewis (innocent until proven guilty, right?) when he was forced to defend himself with deadly force from being pulled from a car by a crazed Officer Norman and some deranged bystander (I noticed that death wasn’t counted on this site).
  
  I’m so glad you brought these horrific statistics to our attention, theblaze should do a story on these unheralded heroes fighting against the out-of-control police of Houston!
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 4:00am
  GER
  yes, you are a sick f ck. You’re also a troll who probably goes by other names on here, encino, meteors?? Either way, you’re a clueless hack. This is a great idea, and should be implemented in the sewer cities that need it the most.
  
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- goodman80
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 2:30pm
  How intriguing that you are cheering on the sick and twisted individuals that seek to harm children all in an effort to solidify your piont. This is a liberal tactic if I have ever seen it. Convince the public that they are not responsible enough to care for their own well being by standing on the graves of murdered children.
  
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Thehulk
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:32pm
We need an Conservative version of the AP, and do away with this extreme liberal outlet.

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NO_MORE_OBAMA
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:24pm
The federal government will step on the neck of South Dakota with the federal Nazi boots.

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- normalmom
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:41pm
  That is a sad possibility.
  
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SteelJewel
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:24pm
This is good news, thank God. They can get their guns and ammo from http://www.KMHArms.com

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- dajones
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:43pm
  what? You didn’t get your free ammo stamps from the government? I’m poor, too poor to be able to buy ammo and practice my 2nd amendment rights. Obama has graciously bought huge amounts of ammo…it must be to provide free ammo for the needy. After all women need free condom stamps from the tax payer to be able to exercise their “rights” because condoms are soooo expensive. I demand my share of Obama’s ammo stock pile. Hear that BO?
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:21pm
  NO rimfire stock
  
  No 30-30 stock
  
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theglockguy007
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:20pm
South Dakota rocks!

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termyt
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:17pm
I heard an unruly pack of firearms went out and shot ten kittens to celebrate this decision.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:24pm
  Damn, and I really do like kittens. Around here they usually grow up to become excellent mousers out in the fields.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:25pm
  I heard they rode there being driven by SUVs while smoking cigarettes, they then did some fracking for oil.
  
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- goodman80
  Posted on March 10, 2013 at 5:48pm
  cavallo, you forgot about the baby seals they clubbed and all the buffalo and polar bear hunts.
  
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Vision Harry
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:17pm
In the seventh grade we had a Social Studies teacher who was an avowed Communist, He would patrol the aisles with a 3 foot ruler in his hand and would whack your knuckles if you weren’t looking down at your text book. Needless to say everyone in his class was a straight A student. We were too afraid not to learn. He eventually was fired for whacking a kid who wouldn’t turn his belt buckle around to his hip, just like The Gestapo did. He taught like that for over 15 years before that child’s parent found the marks he left on him. That was in a conservative town in Idaho, in the early 70′s. It is imperative that we know what is happening in today’s classroom. In my day, parents didn’t question because the students were all getting good grades.

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- Leslie Anne
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:31pm
  Actually, I was nodding my head in agreement as I read your comment thinking he was a great teacher keeping the kids in line and was kinda po’d when I read about him getting in trouble for whacking the one kid. I like his teaching style and results :)
  
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- Vision Harry
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:32pm
  Leslie Anne, I appreciated his teaching style also because I was raised in a strict disciplinarian household. The molly coddling mother was whom got the teacher fired. I was keenly aware of the “Board of Education” that was liberally applied by the Principal. The removal of corporal punishment from the schoolroom was the beginning of the downfall. Every bleeding heart liberal calls for choice, choice, choice, but never accountability.
  
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RabbiDRJerkins
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:16pm
Shalom,
I have several students. I am always armed.

…fewer complaints about assignments is just a bonus.

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- john vincent
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:39pm
  reb-
  
  your kids have an edge; they actually want to learn, and ‘i am guessing they respect you
  
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13th Imam
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:07pm
Since “Teachers” anywhere can now and the future can enter the school with a gun regardless of the current school rules or local laws, how can anyone argue against this rule?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:17pm
  13TH IMAM, You mean that ENCINOM has not yet seen this story? Well, he’ll be here shortly to scream that the children are even more endangered now that there are guns on the campuses.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:37pm
  Si Si Senor
  
  This is the day of the week ENC is off because of the Sequester. Sometimes it’s the little things that make us the happiest. G’Day
  
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cdn1979
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:07pm
great idea. arm the union thugs while they watch over your children. so, if a teacher gets mad, they can shoot a student and be protected by the unions. this is the dumbest idea yet.

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- john vincent
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:21pm
  -cdn
  
  yeah in Detroit this may be a problem———-but our topic is the Dakota area out west, where I’m guessing, kids are actually interested in reading, writing, and arithmetic- and who actually know how to respect adults and authority, so its probably a non issue.
  
  Yes, there may be a ‘lone ranger,’ a kid with a bad idea, but now he will think twice-
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:24pm
  You’re right, it is much, much better for armed drugged psychopaths with stolen firearms to have complete and unchallenged access to children.
  
  South Dakota is one of the big bastions of common sense and traditional American culture. They’re different there, in a good way, and I might even be inclined to trust the teachers there more than I would, say, teachers in Illinois or New York. They know right from wrong out in the old West still (except Texas and Colorado, God only knows what’s happening to Texas and Colorado).
  
  So, if you think allowing Americans the right to arm themselves regardless of what job they hold is a bad idea, what do you propose as an alternative? What’s your solution?
  
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- mrunner
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:25pm
  Chicago teachers, Detroit teachers, Philly teachers- you may be right, but these are South Dakota teachers. I am guessing they still have common sense out there and likely are not the union drones that you see in the major cities.
  
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- missdagnytaggart
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:55pm
  These are South Dakotans we’re talking about here! They’re good sensible people, not Chicago lunatics!
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:26pm
  CDN, it truly amazes me that people like you exist. How is it you’re able to function on a daily basis on even the basest level, let alone post a comment on Blaze, with such low electrical activity in your brain? Tell me, how is it you manage to not get yourself killed every single day?
  
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- S.D.BORN
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 5:35pm
  There are no teachers unions in most South Dakota schools.
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:03pm
Let’s hope this glimmer of common sense legislation is supported by recalcitrant school boards, or elect new board members accordingly. The safety of the children is important and the “Gun Free Zone” isn’t working. Duh!

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SciPro
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:01pm
It’s a bad state of affairs when a teacher has to pack a gun into the class room …. sheesh … That says a lot about people that surround us .. I long for the days when even locking your door to the house simple wasn’t done, we trusted people around us that much, will those days ever … come back ?

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:07pm
  Cultural changers produce results. You’ve noticed but one of those results.
  
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- john vincent
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:08pm
  -scipro
  
  Yeah, I get the concern, but one teacher with good ‘principles’ and a gun, is far less dangerous than a thousand teachers who thinks the Constitution is an old tale which needs rewritten or replaced…………….
  
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- Uechi
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:12pm
  The reality sadly is that the USA is not what it use to be in any area. Some things are ( at least for the time being ) better namely medical and dental care. Almost every other aspect of our society has deteriorated from so called same sex marriages, to massive amounts of abortions, to a total disregard for life and common decency towards our fellow man. The biggest decline in our now anything goes society is a belief in God. Thanks Progressives for promoting sexual perversion, atheism and a total lack of respect for life.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:18pm
  Given as I grew up in “those days” and most of us kids had rifles and shotguns in clear display in our cars, and had to bring our firearms to school on the first three days of deer/rabbit/squirrel season(s) to prove we were going hunting (in order to get an excused absence) I’m not entirely familiar with this disarmed society you speak of. :)
  
  Granted, I lived out in the rural backwoods of Ohio, but still.
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:28pm
  Frankly….education went to crap as soon as they began forced integration and forced busing.
  
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- Your_Senile
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:42pm
  What you must know
  
  South Dakota Gov. Signs Law allowing Teachers to carry concealed Pop-Tarts and Torn Paper in the classrooms. “Nature” help us all.
  
  it is so
  
  Your Senile
  
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denkat56
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:01pm
See if they ever serve that mystery meat at lunch again.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:08pm
  I’d like to see them use those weapons to get rid of the Federal Depart. of Education.
  
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- mrunner
  Posted on March 8, 2013 at 2:28pm
  @Jerk – couldn’t find the “like” button for your comment… but LIKE.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 1:58pm
Joe Foss would be proud.

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