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> "InfoSuperHwyRoadKill" hellsgate.com> wrote:
>>>> "InfoSuperHwyRoadKill"
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>>>> "Paul Stevens"
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>>>> news:qu%%pk.11478$rD2.2121@bignews4.bellsouth.net...>>>>> "Paul Stevens"
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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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you clarify exactly what the danger is of teachers carrying
>>>>>> guns in schools?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Still waiting for an explanation of the danger involved in teachers
>>>>> carrying guns in schools.
>>>>
>>>> That is really an interesting question considering your post here
>>>> regarding the incompetence of the faculty at Hume Fogg.
>>>
>>> The administrative faculty and the way they have chosen to
>>> enforce Garcia's ideas, not the teachers.
>>
>> What was the "administrative faculty" before they became "administrative
>> faculty"?
>
> Sounds like the lady in the attendance office.
>
> Here's an interesting statement:
>> Because 75%% of all cops who are shot in the line of duty.
>> Are Shot With Their OWN GUN!
>
And those police officers walk around with their gun on public
display in a belt holster. From what I have been told by firearms
instructors, the danger is when an officer begins grappling with
a suspect, and the suspect manages to get a hand on the
officer's holstered gun. The suspect doesn't even have to gain
control of the gun, since the officer's Glock has no safety, has
a relatively light trigger, and is carried with a live round in the
chamber and (for lack of better terminology for the Glock's
'unique' action) half-cocked. If both the officer and the suspect
are struggling for control of a half-holstered Glock, odds are
fairly good that somebody's finger will pull that light trigger,
shooting the officer in the leg. If you can find a breakdown
on the data for the shot officers, the majority of them will
probably have been shot in their right leg with a Glock (and
some of them will be accidental shootings that simply involve
the officer putting the Glock in the holster - anybody remember
the Murfreesboro officer who lost a leg after shooting himself
while putting his Glock back in his holster?).
Since the teachers in Texas are unlikely to be walking around
gunslinger style with the gun slung low on their hip, and unlikely
to try to cuff someone, I suspect there is much less danger of
a teacher having a gun taken from them.
As for the claims of a danger of a student getting a gun away
from a teacher... I would think that a student who would even
try to do that would present a danger to the other students,
whether there were guns present in the school or not.
Why is an armed, uniformed police officer patrolling the halls
considered to be a positive thing for school safety, but
unidentified teachers carrying concealed to be such a
dangerous thing for schools?
