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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday's homework: The 3 R's - Reading, Riting and Reloading.....
We don't give our teachers enough educational resources for the classroom like books, computers, pencils and paper but we are more than willing to buy them each guns & ammunition?
It's hard to believe Governor but forcing women to undergo an unnecessary trans-vaginal probe is now NOT the biggest, stupidest idea you've ever had in your whole life.
Discussion over.
McDonnell: Its time to discuss arming teachers
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/18/mcdonnell-its-time-discuss-arming-teachers/
"RICHMOND | Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday that policymakers should not overreact to the Connecticut school shooting but should discuss allowing school officials to carry firearms on campus.
Fridays shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School left 26 dead, including 20 children. It has renewed the gun debate, with President Obama pledging to address gun violence in the coming weeks. Some Democrats, like Virginia U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and avid hunter and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, have said they now favor more restrictions on guns.
Mr. McDonnell, a Republican, said during his monthly radio show on Washingtons WTOP on Tuesday that if school officials were trained and chose to have a weapon, they might have an opportunity to stop someone from trying to get into a school.
I know theres been a knee-jerk reaction against that. I think there should at least be a discussion of that, Mr. McDonnell said. If people were armed, not just a police officer, but other school officials that were trained and chose to have a weapon, certainly thered be an opportunity to stop aggressors coming into the schools......"
edit for a more provocative subject line.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Coyote_Tan
(194 posts)... than I thought it would.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)TeamPooka
(24,216 posts)after a crisis event.
Coyote_Tan
(194 posts)It is getting mentioned and floated more than I thought it would. No chance of sticking on a grand scale.
cbrer
(1,831 posts)Speaking priviledges of these stupid politicians. This is a dumb idea that ignores real issues. These people have GOT to leave Washington. My god, what are we, as a nation, becoming?
ComplimentarySwine
(515 posts)Governor Perry apparently said the same thing today in Texas. This is some common-sense gun legislation that I feel that I can get behind.