His mother was a teacher who packed heat.

A "hero" type longing for his wild west wet dream would have been dead quickly, but only after many more babies died from bullets that came out of his mis-aimed gun.

It was Pearl, MS, and the teacher stopped the shooting almost immediately, without killing the shooter (who, creepily similar to this, had also just killed his mother at her house).

I think "arming teachers" is stupid. Given that the one shooting we had with an armed teacher was much less bad than it probably would have been without him there, it's hard to call the people supporting this crazy.

and she says that nearly all of her colleagues would also.

did they get their credentials to be cops?

But saying that teachers who are qualified and licensed to have guns should be able to have them at school. Again, I'm not particularly a fan, but given the one datum we have on it I also can't call it crazy.

Putting guns into a school will only lead to bad things. Almost all of the teachers will be poorly trained, thugs (aka: students) will know where a supply of guns is, and we would get a few incidents of teachers going postal.

I mean, as far as that one goes the ban is irrelevant. The school in Newtown was a gun-free zone, after all.

The first part is a good point, which is my worry about letting teachers bring guns to campus. But, then again, the one instance we know of turned out much better than it would have without the armed teacher.

...and you want to make teachers into armed policemen. go fuck yourself

Had this asshole been a teacher or the principal there and had he been allowed to have a gun, the death toll would probably e about double with half of the kids killed by this asshole before Lanza put a bullet in his stupid ass just before he killed himself.

End result, 40 babies dead plus 7 faculty members and people wondering why half the babies died at the hands of the fucking principal.

I am embarrassed he is from around where I live.

Southern Oregon, however, is full of yahoos.