The most powerful Republican in the Tennessee House says tougher gun laws likely would not have prevented the mass shooting in Orange Mound. Speaker Cameron Sexton visited Memphis on Friday, defending open carry and the new law that lets teachers carry guns in the classroom.
Governor Bill Lee signed the arming teachers bill into law on Friday, and it takes effect immediately. Speaker Sexton says it’s one more tool in the box to help school districts keep students safe.
Armed teachers?
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One or two dead or wounded school shooters, and an incident concluded before the cops arrive. Damn high time. Except in Oak Ridge (so far), who have publicly announced they won't allow it. Next Oak Ridge shooting in three, two....
DeleteThe rules just changed. A school shooter now is at more risk- no prior knowledge of who may be armed, where they keep a gun, etc: just the possibility that someone MAY be armed and able to respond very quickly, without waiting for incompetent cops. Places that announce they are not going to allow this are hanging targets on themselves- the lawsuits just write themselves. Yeah, we may have another deranged trans kid try this out, but uncertainty is a great deterrent. You MIGHT get away with it- but then again, you MIGHT get dead. Feeling lucky?
DeleteSuch laws are like making the incision but not removing the cancer. It is like locking up merchandise but not prosecuting the shoplifters.
DeleteIt is necessary because of the lack of the correct actions.
I doubt this law will have the students behave any better.
(Many of the school shooters have attended that school which they shoot up.)
Oak Ridge is a sickening example of what happens when you import people from out of state who do not assimilate. It's a blue hive, traffic sucks, crime is rampant, habla espanol?
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One of the comments about this law was from an administrator named Dr. Donald Snowden....the same one that gave me detention in 1985 when he was a high school principal. He wasn't this stupid when he was working on his PhD at USM when I was the computer lab assistant...
ReplyDeleteMaybe he isn't a true believer. Maybe he's compelled to take the side with some teachers or their union to not make waves so close to his retirement. In other words, an unprincipled coward.
DeleteThe teachers don't have to all be armed, just arm those trained and willing (and keep it secret) and the threat will curb the violence. Especially if the micropenised little cowards that think shooting up a school is going to be easy know they'll be facing armed resistance. I'm sure the whiny hoplophobes will create all kinds of scary stories about teachers gunning down entire classes because they were unruly, but in reality teachers will sacrifice their own lives to protect their students. A couple of simple rules will eliminate problems. If a teacher brandishes a gun when there's no threat, they're automatically fired and their teaching certificate is revoked. If a student touches a gun except in the case where a teacher has fallen to a school shooter, they're sent to a detention type school to finish that year and the next. My daughter's a teacher and I suggested that every teacher at her school be issued a fanny pack with a gun equivalent weight it in. It would be part of the mandatory uniform. Those willing and trained could replace the weight with a handgun. No one would know who was carrying, and no one would know who to (and who not to) target. Her only complaint was that fanny packs are tacky.
ReplyDeleteWhy not? Teachers have a right to protect themselves and maybe other students. Less deaths with a person carrying.Unfortunately this is our society now.
ReplyDeleteI'm predicting a big nothingburger, as this program relies on volunteers, and no teacher is going to volunteer for the program once they discover the requirements: 40-hours POST training, written permission from the Superintendent and the head of the local police/sheriff's office, psych exam, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe very same things that killed the Armed Flight Deck Officer program that was passed in the wake of 9-11.
Our local schools have signs at the driveway entrances stating that the teachers may be armed. They look something like https://www.gunowners.org/oped09212016c/
ReplyDeleteIt's funny the differences communist governments like NY and other liberal states react to actions like this from Tennessee. They constantly think and look to remove your rights and liberties while forcing mandates, while Tennessee gives schools the freedom to choose what they want to do and their community is comfortable with.
ReplyDeleteSame with the Supreme Court abortion decision. Let each state make up it's own mind? NO, YOU MUST MAKE EVERYONE DO WHAT WE WANT TO DO!!!
It's a sickness. Illness. Their minds are fucking warped... You can't reason with them, either. It's going to get ugly.
Whether school resource officers (PD) or armed teachers, greater question remains unasked much less answered; after generations of no apparent need, why are such individuals now needed in any school? Best answer may first best lie with parents.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, there seems to be an uncomfortable number of schoolmarms whom I wouldn't trust to safely & discreetly pack in a classroom.
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