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NRA Press Conference Summed Up: More Guns

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines12/21/2012 1:11:16 pm PST

Several local districts in Texas are going the armed teacher route. (video at link)

HARROLD, Texas — There’s at least one school that welcome firearms to class.

It believes nothing makes a school safer than teachers who are armed,

The Harrold Independent School District is one building with 103 students. It’s 20 minutes away from the nearest sheriff’s station. Superintendent David Thweatt created what he calls a “guardian plan” after the attack at Virginia Tech.

“These people that go in and do these horrible acts, they’re evil. But they’re not that crazy — they always know where they are going to get resistance,” Thweatt said.

The yokel right-wing is wildly enthusiastic about this idea. Our leading right-wing radio host, Robert Pratt, has seized on it as THE solution. Teachers are dedicated professionals but they are human and there are a couple of million of them in the country. It is a stressful job, and some few will inevitably react much worse than others to that stress. What happens when a mentally ill teacher goes off and starts shooting in the classroom?