Mastrogiacomo,
Sorry if my "liberal" point of view pisses people off
Nothing to do with liberalism. Just statism.
and you think teachers have a right to blow anyone away if they feel "threatened."
Teachers have no greater right to "blow anyone away if they feel 'threatened'" than you or I do. No one has claimed otherwise. Strawman argument.
The bottom line is no one has the right to bring a weapon into a school and sorry if that pisses you off too.
So ... what is a weapon? Does a pocketknife count? How about sports equipment? I know quite a few deadly devices in shop class ... do they count? Or are you just concerned with firearms?
Schools should be more wise to security and I don't care about their arguements about money -- they have it and just like the government, they like to lie about it but they have it.
Sorry, but you are absolutely wrong. Maybe
your school had plenty of money, but I know for a fact that my highschool did not (despite being in an upper-middle class area).
There's plenty of teachers I would have loved to blown away -- students included for the torment they put me through as a kid -- but my misery in school isn't an excuse for bringing a weapon in class.
And here is the true base of your fear.
You feel that you - or the great unwashed masses - would not have been, or are not currently capable of being responsible with a firearm in certain locations, thus and therefore there should be a law against it. You echo the cry of statists everywhere.
Bringing a weapon into a class (as a teacher or a student, though I'm rather certain this article referred to a teacher) is an absolutely morally neutral event. No one is harmed by it. How that weapon is used is a completely different manner.
Teachers, many of whom aren't much brighter than people that post here, or those that pump gas, wait on tables, work at a gym, work at CVS, whatever -- are not some high and mighty few that should be allowed to bring whatever they want to class, whenever they feel like it.
Er ... I was with you right up to the "high and mighty few" bit. The difference is I don't believe you have to be a part of a "high and mighty few" to be allowed to carry a firearm. But that's jut me.
By the way, what makes the cop who barely passed high school and can barely remember which end of his gun the bullet comes out of part of your "high and mighty few"?
You want to bring a gun to work people? Open your own firing range.
I'd love to open a firing range, but right now I work in technology. Flying bullets and server racks don't mix well (or rather, they mix too well). Still bring a couple guns to work. So does my boss, so I think it's okay.
Incidently, in case you're wondering, no I don't bring a gun to the theatre: Tango, Ballet or even to Chinatown at night-- but then I guess this "dude" likes to live dangerously.
That is your choice and I respect it.
Can you have the same respect for my choice?