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Author: Kent FinnellKent Finnell Date: Aug 16, 2008 08:06
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>> This is one of the most asanine moves that could happen.
>> Teachers carrying guns. Now that really speaks well of
>> this towns movement into the 21st century. Definitely not
>> progress. Hopefully, one day they will get over their Old
>> West mentality and see not only the danger of teachers
>> carrying guns in schools, but the pathetic example it
>> sets for the kids in the classrooms. This is purely
>> pathetic.
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> Could you clarify exactly what the danger is of teachers
> carrying
> guns in schools?
As opposed to teachers and staff NOT carrying guns in school
at Columbine and Virginia Tech. Sane Earth, right, Gregg?
What is sane about leaving children exposed to the insane of
the earth? The article stated that the nearest law
enforcement is 30 minutes away. That's really plays into a
tag line I've seen, "When seconds count, the police are only
minutes away." Cold comfort, that.
Even here in Nashville, 10 minutes is the average response
time for a 911 call (on a really good day, that is). How
much body heat is a small child going to lose in 10 minutes.
Even driving at the speed limit (so as to not attract undue
attention), the doer can be 3-5 miles from the scene before
the first responder arrives. Thirty minutes in rural Texas
at highway speeds, the perp could be 20-30 miles from the
scene.
I think your concept of the "Wild" West comes from penny
dreadfuls, B-movies, and TV, not from historic fact. Note
that almost all of the bad guys in the "Wild" West came to
the bad end they deserved. Jesse James, the Cole brothers,
James Wesley Harding were brought down either by the law,
their own, or nameless citizen heroes.
Look at the results of perditions similar to yours in the
cases of Morton Grove, IL and Kennesaw, GA and the "lax"
carry law in Florida and the "no carry" laws in Illinois.
--
"No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or
killer,
like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended
victim."
-W. Emerson Wright.
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Kent Finnell
From the Music City, USA
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