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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
Teachers Should Pack in Case Students are Attacked
by Doug Giles
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• Jonesboro massacre - Jonesboro, Arkansas, March 24, 1998

• Thurston High School shooting - Springfield, Oregon, May 21, 1998

• Columbine High School massacre - near Littleton, Colorado, April 20, 1999

• Heritage High School shooting - Conyers, Georgia, May 20, 1999

• Santana High School - Santee, California, March 5, 2001

• Appalachian School of Law shooting - Grundy, Virginia, January 16, 2002

• Rocori High School shootings - Cold Spring, Minnesota, September 24, 2003

• Red Lake High School massacre - Red Lake, Minnesota, March 21, 2005

• Campbell County High School - Jacksboro, Tennessee, November 8, 2005

• Platte Canyon High School shooting - Bailey, Colorado, September 27, 2006

• Weston High School shooting, Cazenovia, Wisconsin September 29, 2006

• Amish school shooting - Nickel Mines, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2006

• Henry Foss High School - Tacoma, Washington, January 3, 2007

• Virginia Tech massacre - Blacksburg, Virginia, April 16, 2007

• SuccessTech Academy shooting - Cleveland, Ohio, October 10, 2007

We can’t afford to rely on chunky security guards with golf carts, pepper spray, whistles and plastic badges to safeguard against these armed little death dealing bastards from hell (I believe the security guard at SuccessTech was on vacation when Coon attempted to kill his mates).

The reality is that this stuff goes down when you least expect it, and as long as schools don’t have some armed teachers and faculty that have been properly trained and equipped to kill the post-pubescent perps, the more we will continue to carry innocent children out of their classrooms in black body bags. Call me weird, but in every school shooting there should be only one casualty, namely the gun wielding culprit who commenced the chaos, and not your bystanding book carrying kid.

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Reply # 1
Date: Oct 16, 2007 - 11:30 AM EST
to Talli2long
You still didn't say anything about PREVENTION. Yes, you mentioned just a few of the symptoms of school shootings. And I mentioned investigating the conditions in the home.
There is a constant and irrefutable correlation to school shootings and abuse.
Children are abused at home, or they are abused by their peers. VERY often with anti gay epithet because such abuse most often goes with impunity. And just as often teacher engage in the abuse of children they think or know are gay as well.
Boys are the predominant in school shootings and girls who reject them are at the root of their intense emotions and feelings of helplessness.
I mentor teenagers. Who are being the most sold out by ignorant and preoccupied adults. And I'm sick of it.
The solution isn't to shoot a child an at risk who is already abused, but to intervene or prevent the abuse in the first place.
YOUR idea and that of most of the posters here...is not the solution, but in fact, part of the problem.
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Reply # 2
Date: Oct 16, 2007 - 9:48 AM EST
vespanat
vespanat , Just having a little fun with you, nothing mean malicious meant by it.

Vic, the truth is that all the guns are not our problem.
America has lost it moral way.

America has grown up with guns. Children have always been around guns and they knew how to use them.

As I mentioned above, I was in ROTC in high school and daily practiced with guns and live ammo.

We had hundreds of guns in an armory.
Not one accident, not one shooting took place, few nuts in school when I was going up.

We’ve created them in the past 50 years.

We have surrendered our nation to humanists, liberals who will destroy us.
We are going the direction that Britain went.

You guys feel safe in Britain because you have passed gun laws. Not true, you just have less shooting, but you still have criminals preying on the innocent as well.

Americans have more violence because we have more people.
The problem is that liberals have given them excuses for there behavior instead of punishing them.

I’m afraid that it may take another revolution to rid the country of Tyrants and terrorists.

Law abiding gun owners are not the problem. We are not about to give up the only means of defending ourselves.

When a violent person chooses of his own free will to use deadly force against the innocent, they have to accept the possibility of forfeiting there lives.

The criminal needs to understand that.

You have a great day, and tell the Brits that we still loveum, as long as they don't want to hold hands.HaHa
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