Texas teachers can pack heat

[ericire12]

  http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/834022.html

When classes start Aug. 25 in the tiny Harrold school district, there will be one distinct difference from years prior: Some of the teachers may have guns.

    To deter and protect against school shootings, trustees have altered district policy to allow employees to carry concealed weapons if they have a state permit and permission from the administration. The 110-student district lies 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth on the eastern end of Wilbarger County, near the Oklahoma border.

    More than a dozen state legislatures have considered making it legal to carry guns on college campuses, but experts and officials contacted by the Star-Telegram say the move is unheard of in elementary or secondary schools.

    Superintendent David Thweatt said a main concern was that the small community is a 30-minute drive from the sheriff’s office, leaving students and teachers without protection.

    ‘To be prepared’

    The district’s lone campus sits 500 feet from heavily trafficked U.S. 287, which could make it a target, Thweatt said.

    Other security measures are in place, including one-way access to enter the school, state-of-the-art surveillance cameras and electric locks on doors. But after the Virginia Tech massacre and the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania, Thweatt felt he had to take further action, he said.

    “When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started,” Thweatt said. “Why would you put it out there that a group of people can’t defend themselves? That’s like saying ’sic ’em’ to a dog.”

[m25operator]

  Texas

[Jim Urban]

Outstanding. For ensuring his Students safety,like no other Educator in the U.S.,
Superintendent Thweatt should be guaranteed a job for as long as he wants.

[DesertMarine]

Outstanding. For ensuring his Students safety,like no other Educator in the U.S.,
Superintendent Thweatt should be guaranteed a job for as long as he wants.

+1

[twyacht]

Good! Give them the same ammo as the Federal Air Marshall's. Frangible fine,.. give them something, and maybe the school shooting statistics will go down.

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[dj454]

Way to go Texas!!

[tt11758]

An "educator" who "gets it"......what a concept!!!

[jaybet]

Thats encouraging!

[TexGun]

Well boys (and girls), as you might have guessed, the Brady bunch have shown up on the scene.  They got some air time on one of the local Dallas AM stations durind drive time today.

[DesertMarine]

CNN had the school superintendent and one of the Brady kids this morning.  The superintendent had it together with the Brady kid with the usual let's scare everybody with possibilities of accidents, training, procedures.  Talked to a cousin who is a school teacher in El Paso.  She is for it, her main concern would be for the students to take the weapon away from the teacher.