Guns in Schools

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  1. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Harrold marks year of guns in schools

    A year ago, they started letting certain teachers carry guns. Pretty interesting....

    It really was accepted quite positively when it happened here. I wonder if other schools or universities will follow suit anytime soon.
     
  2. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Don't hold your breath. The schools and the faculties are seriously against this. It's all coming from legislators who don't know squat about campus security.
     
  3. shaqazoolu

    shaqazoolu Concentrated Awesome

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    I remember this one time I went to school and I behaved because I didn't want to get paddled.
     
  4. Tigerbnd05

    Tigerbnd05 National Champs 2003 2007

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    And I remember when everyone behaved because they didn't want to get paddled at school and at home. I always knew if I got in trouble at school, the punishment was going to be twice as bad at home.
     
  5. gumborue

    gumborue Throwin Ched

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    sure, but its very hard/impossible to determine who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. plus, good guys can become bad guys.
     
  6. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    what a ridiculous notion.
     
  7. LSUDeek

    LSUDeek All That She Wants...

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    Sounds good to me. I'd want to carry if I taught in Baton Rouge.
     
  8. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    the psycho kids will know exactly which teachers have guns, and will kill them first. the odds that armed teachers could stop a school shooting are approximately zero. the odds of a gun on campus contributing to something negative are substantially more than zero.

    guns in general are a bad idea, the fewer around, the better.
     
  9. mobius481

    mobius481 Registered Member

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    I agree with this. It's much more likely some kid grabs a gun from a teacher and shoots another student than that teacher saving lives by shooting down a gunman.
     
  10. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    right. a school isnt like a bank where there is something you need to defend with guns. when schools get shot up, it is some psycho kid that snapped and wants to shoot his girlfriend or bullies and random kids and himself. and so periodically some kid will lose it and go on a rampage. not really much you can do about it. arming teachers only makes us a little more trashy of a society.
     

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