Teachers should all have military training and carry guns.

[HopeHoops]

Your thoughts?

[SteppingRazor]

1. Only if we also arm all the students, to protect them from the teachers.

:popcorn:

[HopeHoops]

2. OOH! I like that!

Creates parity!

[damntexdem]

40. Yeah, and the students should be graded on marksmanship.

Miss the teacher = get an F.

[no name no slogan]

3. Guns don't kill people

Paramilitary, gun-toting teachers kill people

[jobycom]

4. Just give them Pit Bulls and Tasers. nt

[charlie and algernon]

10. Pit bulls have no souls

:eyes:

[TZ]

16. at least the pure bred ones don't...

:hide:

[jobycom]

19. Of course not. They have pads on their feet. nt

[DrDan]

5. more guns . . . yep - that's the answer

[Stellabella]

7. Yeah, that's worked so well so far!

:sarcasm:

[n2doc]

6. Yep. Those Kindergartners will rip your lungs out if you let them...

Don't even get me started on the 1st graders. I think the following course should be required of all elementary school teachers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

[EastTennesseeDem]

8. Self-delete

Meant to respond to the OP.

[jobycom]

20. Huh. I'd like to meet their tailors. nt

[damntexdem]

41. Curses don't have to be required of teachers.

They all curse enough all on their own -- of course they do.

[shadowknows69]

9. Being that my mother just turned 70 and has taught for 40+ years

I have no wish to see her in combat boots. B-)

[damntexdem]

42. How about an armored Humvee?

Or just body armor -- no need to wear the boots.

[EastTennesseeDem]

11. What's your opinion on cheese sandwiches, narwhal alfredo, and breastfeeding at the Olive Garden?

Gotcha.

[Raskolnik]

12. That's a bad idea, and I don't think any reasonable person seriously thinks that it should happen.

Are you aware of some groundswell of support for such a policy?

[KitchenWitch]

14. Me thinks your irony meter is broken.

[Raskolnik]

65. I answered the question posed with a sincere answer. n/t

[jobycom]

22. I wouldn't have thought any reasonable person would take the post seriously.

Then again, given some of the opinions that pop up around here, it's probably never safe to assume satire anymore.

[damntexdem]

43. True, but DU needs plenty of threads for unreasonable persons.

Let's be fair to all.

[jobycom]

53. Fair enough.

:spray:

[KitchenWitch]

63. You just made me spew coffee all over my screen!

:rofl:

[Raskolnik]

67. I try not to assume satire, and I don't take the OP seriously

It's a dumb idea, but if all the dumb ideas that get put up as straw men were removed from DU, we'd have a lot fewer things to talk about.

[jobycom]

73. I always assume satire, but you're right about the dumb ideas thing.

:thumbsup:

[Raskolnik]

68. dupe

[Dappleganger]

26. Fail

[Raskolnik]

66. Wait, does that mean its a good idea, then? n/t

[baldguy]

13. Maybe just let the military take over the education system?

With the grateful help of the NRA, the Christian Identity Church & the GOP, of course. We could give the kids uniforms & everything.

[countingbluecars]

15. Yeah, that will really make the world

a better place. What a ridiculous idea.

[monicamedallion]

36. Million Armed Militia Man March on Washington Dc

Just wondering...will this make the world a better place, too?

Hi, I am new to the DU. I have posted a few times but in my excitement forgot to introduce myself and tell you members what a sharp and deeply intelligent, pithy and fall on the floor laughing my ass off funny you all are. I can't find a better place to get news and commentary about the things that are near and dearest to my heart. Thank you. I was examining the news on AOL, and I think I saw some posts to the effect that AOL is slanted and I agree. They allowed people to post for days about the FLOTUS with the most horrid, racist remarks I have ever seen. I tried to put in my 2 cents and call out AOL for providing a platform for this kind of dreck, but to no avail. No monitoring, no rules. Call the First Lady a "racist black ugly monkey". Oh, well, freedom of speech and I defend your right to say it, however just reinforces the realization that I do not know what is going on at AOL if it cannot ask people to state their opinions intelligently, etc. Or maybe my feelings are inappropriate because as you can see I am confused. Anyway, I am used to the way in which the people on DU check that kind of speech and respond with as mentioned before with sharp and deeply intelligent, pithy and fall on the floor laughing my ass off funny responses. Good on you!
Also can someone please advise? How to I put pictures on the posts. Must be more involved than cut and paste because my pics were not placed on post after this procedure.

[countingbluecars]

57. Welcome to DU.

It is never dull here-that is for sure.

You asked the wrong person about how to post a picture. Sometimes it works for me and other times not. Here is an old thread with some tips.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3083840

As to the Million Armed Militia Man March on Washington DC-I find the idea scary, but I don't think it will happen.

[monicamedallion]

64. Thank you

I hope the movement will fizzle just like the tea parties. I live in OH and I hear they are planning for a group from this state. I will be watching closely to see which of my neighbors are there. There used to be a huge billboard sign for the John Birch society as late as 2001 just outside our internationally attended small liberal arts college town. I don't know how they got away with it for so long.

[tuckessee]

17. Dumbest idea of the month.

There was lots of competition but your idea is clearly the most idiotic, boot-licking, assinine one I've seen on DU in a long time.

[jeff30997]

28. Oh,boy.

The irony.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8714350#8714431

[tuckessee]

50. I knew the OP was a sarcastic post.

The real irony is that the original poster doesn't realize the sentiment he expressed is consistent the attitudes of many military cultists and discipline freaks not just in TRW but on DU as well.

[HopeHoops]

55. Oh, but perhaps he does

:evilgrin:

[kestrel91316]

18. Why? Because one in a million might actually need one someday?

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

[earth mom]

21. Why not make all teachers sociopathic nutcases who torture?

:eyes:

[damntexdem]

45. Now, now: not everyone can excel.

We also need to keep posts open for mere reckless dumbshits.

[flvegan]

23. If the teachers were just all drunk, they wouldn't care what the kids did.

Open bar in the teachers lounge is the best idea.

[Goblinmonger]

25. That assumes we aren't already. n/t

[GoneOffShore]

24. How "Poe-y" of you.

[jobycom]

27. Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music

:rofl:

"...to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News. At twenty minutes before eight, central time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity. Professor Pierson of the Observatory at Princeton confirms Farrell's observation, and describes the phenomenon as (quote) like a jet of blue flame shot from a gun (unquote). We now return you to the music of Ramón Raquello, playing for you in the Meridian Room of the Park Plaza Hotel, situated in downtown New York.
(MUSIC PLAYS FOR A FEW MOMENTS UNTIL PIECE ENDS . . . SOUND OF APPLAUSE) "

[jeff30997]

32. ROFL

"We're too smart these days. We've grown so inured to the often unbelievable nonsense on television, or the absurd chain emails we gather in our inboxes, that the idea of a hysteria-inciting radio (radio!) play is laughable. So try, for a spell, to put yourself in the shoes of listeners who tuned in 70 years ago to The Mercury Theater on the Air's performance of The War of the Worlds."

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1855120,00.html

I thing that the author of this article should see this thread.Good one jobycom !:rofl:

[jobycom]

38. No kidding. Wasn't the build-up to the Iraq invasion proof?

We are more gullible than ever. The lines between nonsense fiction and nonsense tabloid reality has been so blurred that some people no longer even see the difference. W was proof of that.

[charlie and algernon]

33. bravo, bravo!

[jobycom]

39. Thank you, thank you.

I was proud of it, myself. :rofl:

[Caliman73]

29. Thought there was a rule against deliberately inflamatory posts

nt.

[jobycom]

34. This is GD. Any post can be interpreted as inflammatory.

Including this one. :)

[Caliman73]

46. True

Do you really think that any good can come of this though? :toast:

[jobycom]

52. Depends. If side-splitting laughter is good, then yes.

I don't mind humorous posts that start flame wars. The rule, I thought, was to stop people deliberately trying to pick fights, not to stop people making sarcastic remarks that get misinterpreted as serious.

The mods will decide. :)

[damntexdem]

47. But how many GD posts can be interpreted as deliberate?

Debilitated, sure -- but deliberate?

[jobycom]

48. Most, if not all. This one just happens to be more satirical than many. nt

[Caliman73]

49. You are right

Assuming intent was a mistake. My bad...:blush:

[cali]

30. one word: INSANE.

[jeff30997]

37. Four words: BUY ONE OF THESE:

[Zodiak]

31. My thought is that it is a stupid idea

Schools are not supposed to be combat zones by design. This idea would change that.

[damntexdem]

35. Not good enough: RPGs, or suicide-bomber getups.

How about nukes?

'We had to destroy the school to save it.'

But maybe all of this is going too far: subjecting students to waterboarding, stress positions, and sexual humiliation should be sufficient.

[Midlodemocrat]

44. I think they should be issued Black Hawks as well.

Might as well go all the way.



:thumbsup:

[jeff30997]

51. Black Hawks ?

Yeah right.Then the kids will shoot one down and everybody on TV will watch them drag a dead

teacher's body in the streets. :P

[Midlodemocrat]

54. Hey, if they're stupid enough to get shot down, they deserve it.

[jeff30997]

58. Mmmm...

I guess you have a point there.

[Strelnikov_]

56. If I had a rocket launcher . . .

I'd make somebody pay . . .

[Sancho]

59. Cool, if I took out the first 10-year old that talked, the class would pay attention!

of course, if they could shoot back it might be trouble.

[Dr Fate]

60. Support the Troops- er I mean the teachers!

Let's give them the finest military equipment and training available! Any alternative would be "unpatriotic"!

[MisterP]

61. if so, they have to have bayonets: also, students must wear uniforms

and shave their heads
and the only class after 3rd grade will be ROTC
K-2 grades get instruction in military geography from Mexico to France to Indonesia, anatomy training for "kill spots," and three-minute salutes to some epaulettes on a pole and a picture of von Moltke and Galtieri
marching reviews before the Principal-Commandant will begin in the spring quarter of 2nd grade

[HopeHoops]

62. And then frosted lemon cookies and orange juice for snack.

I always loved that kind of snack.

[MisterP]

69. cookies, OJ, and a CANING! n/t

[HopeHoops]

70. THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!

I liked that part too.

[madinmaryland]

71. K&R!!

The perfect GD topic!

[callous taoboy]

72. Bad idea in this age of high-stakes testing. n/t

[The Straight Story]

74. I am for it. I am not scared of teachers. Unlike some, I don't buy into the fear stuff

:)

[rucky]

75. Still working on growing eyes in the back of their heads.