Legislator Proposes Having Teachers Carry Guns

[Pro5Monkey]

Wisconsin Proposal Would Allow Teachers to Carry Concealed Weapons

Oct. 5, 2006 After the deadly school shootings in Colorado, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, one legislator has proposed a plan that would actually put more guns in schools.

Wisconsin state Rep. Frank Lasee, R-Green Bay, said he would introduce a measure in the state legislature early next year that would give teachers and other school employees the option of carrying concealed guns after they have received extensive weapons training.....(headshake

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2532176&page=

 

[genericuser]

too little too late.. my fiance could have used that when she worked in philly and was sent to the hospital twice by her students.

 

[maestro]

So now the students will have an easier time getting guns at school. Just take it from a teacher.
Knee-jerk?

my fiance could have used that when she worked in philly and was sent to the hospital twice by her students.

That is pretty pathetic. Some people have no respect for anyone else.
I have Family that used to work at Thomas Jefferson? Hospital in Triage. He said it got really bad sometimes.

 

[Rotary_Powered]

I see where they are coming from, but I don't agree there is plently of non-lethal weapons that teachers could be trained with. I just feel then kids will start to think lethal weapons in school for protection are justifiable, and then violence will propogate more violence.

 

[Killer]

I have no problem with this.

 

[1sty]

I have a major problem with this.
The reality is that most teachers and of coarse most people do not have the correct mind set to carry a gun. If this plan is put in place it should only allow teachers to carry and only after intense training on how to use, store, fire, and protect a gun.

Realisitlcy if a teacher has to pull a gun on a student, then they had damn well better kill the kid or he is probably coming back after that teacher.

Also, what about the fall out?
If a teacher shoots a wounds or shoots and kills a student the school districtwill be in a legal battle and stand to loose a s*** load of money. Lets not forget that the teacher could be brought up on charges to and there action would be under scrutiny even worse then a cops is.

To me, the only place this could work is in middle class and upper class school systems where you would only be protecting against that intruder/flipped out student. So in Wisconsin, it has merit But then again, these are the places that already have a cop or two in the buidling and have the budget for security systems. The one thing I have noticed abscent in these systems though is a teacher panic button that should allert the onsite officer instantly and should be at every teachers desk, not on the wall.


I prapose an alternative:
JUST IN FORCE THE CURRENT RULES.

If a kid acts up bad enough he should be suspended or expelled. Start removing these chuckle heads and getting them turned over to the police from grade school. No more school house rules in bad areas. You commit a crime you get brought up on charges not go to the principals office. Its been the teacher union's and overly liberal areas view of discipline that has brought us to the place we are now in city schools. Its time to rectify that before making it worse with ammunition.

Lastly, lets stop putting a signel cop in a school. LETS PUT ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS in schools, SWAT too. From now on all schools built must have a olice department within them and vice versa.

 

[Lt. Dan]

Guns? No.

Tazers? Hell yeah!

 

[Rotary_Powered]

The nice long distance ones, what about tranqulizer guns? Stun granades? Smoke granades? and such...

 

[gimpo2]

just chain the students to their desks

 

[1st Gen]

I agree that most teachers are not trained as security and would thus be a poor choice for that role. They're educators and that's what their being paid to do. On the other hand, there are a number of things that can be done to enforce a secure campus. Use the lessons learned at airports and court houses with the addition of metal detectors and marshals, as well as other passive surveillance. A security system of that nature would certainly cost more than just giving a gun to a number of teachers, but then I think the success rate would be a great deal higher too. You wouldnt have the problem of kids being shot by over worked, frustrated teachers either.

 

[slayer4u]

I've been thinking of letting my dad keep my SKS in his classroom closet....

Or maybe I should jus equip him with an M79 "thumper" and some tear gass granades.lol

 

[Killer]

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