Joe Demko,
Well sir,
I personally do not have a problem with you having a gun in the classroom.
I do not know any teachers in Israel that have guns in classrooms, and I do not have a problem with this either.
Israel put a stop to some school shootings, just as they did airplanes being hijacked.
Re: Training.
Blame LBJ and The Great Society.
Americans used to be born with grit and backbone, and parents parented, and mentors mentored.
Then LBJ and The Great Society "said" the Government could raise kids better than parents. They "said" the government was going to take care of you.
Oh they trained society all right, they sure did. With all their laws, restrictions, brainwashing, and propaganda, they turned grit into powder puff, and turned backbone to yellow soft cowardly matter.
Thank goodness I was born in the last great decade! I remember JFK being shot, and when LBJ raised his hand, and was sworn into office, my gut said "we are in trouble".
I was young, still I felt it.
So did Mentors.
Kids were raised to not start a fight, still if they found themselves in one, to end it.
Software, just thinking, figuring out things for themselves.
One was not dressed without a knife, boy, girl, lady or gent. We kids took knives to school, and when any adult asked to see it, we had better hand it over correctly, the blade be sharp, and pivots oiled
The teacher had a stone on his/her desk, and teachers "taught" a whole lot more than what a textbook has to offer.
Guns were in school, we had BB Guns, and Archery sets. We brought guns to school for Show-n-Tell, and for Shop classes and...
Times were difficult, Vietnam was going on, and all sorts of things. Still nobody went on a shooting spree.
Criminals knew Faculty & Students were raised right.
In HS, we had some out of town criminals, from a big big city, "think" they could take a HS girl off campus and have their way.
She used a straight razor, and changed minds rather fast.
We had some Anti-War /Peace folks come and start throwing rocks, and sticks, and bashing cars on my HS campus.
Yeah, I was not the only guy with long hair, that looked like a 'gall durned hippie".
It ain't the hair that makes a hippie, it is what the person is about.
Needless to say My kind kicked butt, and took names, against the Anti-War/Peace folks , that came to us, with violence.
Hell hath no fury than a HS girl, that has lost an older brother in Vietnam, she will put some serious hurt on you, and she does not care if you are a guy, and are bigger.
LBJ and The Great Society is about Control. It is easier to control a bunch of yellow bellied, spineless folks.
There was no Political Correctness when I was coming up. Kids , both boys and girls grew up learning to shoot.
"A Nation of Rifleman".
And the girls did not get their panties wadded up because of Rifleman
either.
Nobody cared if a kid was shooting at "The Ruskies" [target] because we were concerned about the Ruskies.
It was fine and dandy if a kid shot that target and said " I killed a Commie", and sure enough go check the target a kid shot with a .22 rifle.
As each decade after the one I was born in, has come up, more and more of The Great Society is evident.
NO Gun Control - Period from my decade to folks on this very Gun Forum thinking it is a good idea to give up some liberties for some freedom.
LBJ would be real proud of you folks, he really would.
The Great Society has a bunch of yellow bellied, spineless folks, that cannot do diddly by themselves.
As a kid, I swear we did more Civil Defense Drills than we did Fire Drills.
More than once, a drill was conducted, and not announced. Many times something was pulled on us, to get us to think, and to take an action.
Principle one time had smoke ( dry ice best recall) and a large pc of ply board with "fire".
First grade.
None of us had attended kindergarten or day care, our first exposure to school, was first grade.
Teacher watched, and when we felt the "hot" door knob, and saw smoke coming under the door...
A jacket was put down on the floor "up-under" the door, desks scooted to windows, and we got a window up and helped each other out.
A few years ago I am in a college building, in the hallway, and a college student is dialing 911, to find out how long to set the microwave to bake a potato.
I have been on campus, more than once when shots were fired, when a bomb threat was going down, and some other emergencies.
I suggested to Chair of Sociology, to have his students do a study on ages , and how they responded.
The last shooting, I was visiting a campus, and I kid you not, you could tell whom was born in what decade, and whom was raised right, as to how they reacted.
Yes, some folks are parenting and mentoring youth as they should be. Still many would be shocked to really know what is "taught" in school.
Joe Demko is a "teacher", not a puppet of the State
There is a difference, a huge one.
