Texas schoolteachers may carry guns

[macadore]

Texas -- leads the nation in capital execution, thanks to Geo. W.

Where is your evidence?

Yeah, Carter didn't get us into a stupid war or run up the deficit into the trillions.

True. He ran up the deficit while surrendering rather than going to war.


A lot of you yelp about how sorry teachers are then applaud the fact some of them can carry firearms in schools. That seems inconsistent.

I am not sure how I feel about this. Most teachers are serious dedicated professionals trying to do an impossible job mandated by legislators who have never taught. However, some teachers are real fruitcakes.

 

[scrat]

too cool hopefully others school districts will follow suit.

 

[Intune]

Hijacked, OT, political and probably some Mod pm's going out to folks. Sorry I got sucked into it and my apologies to the OP & Mods. I've been around long enough to know better...:banghead:

Superintendent David Thweatt is scheduled to talk on Gun Talk radio, this Sunday at 1:35pm Central time.

 

[macadore]

Where's my "evidence" --

You can Google "Texas" and "Capital Punishment."

Here . . . I'll do it for you --

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Texas

For a list of executions scheduled by the State of Texas, see the website of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Scheduled Executions, at http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/sch...executions.htm

For a full list of those executed since 1982 see the list of individuals executed in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...cuted_in_Texas

Your evidence does not support your conclusion. Your evidence shows that there are executions in Texas. Where is the evidence that “Texas -- leads the nation in capital execution, thanks to Geo. W.”?

 

[Joe Demko]

bdickens,
Click the link in my post and it'll take you to the source of those statistics. Don't hesitate to ask for more help on anything else you don't understand

 

[TexasRifleman]

Texas is on the high side of the graph for every category of crime.

And on the low side compared to the other Mexico border states as I posted earlier.

You can make statistics say just about anything you want them to.

 

[Joe Demko]

That may well be WRT the other border states; but Texas is still part of the USA so the comparison to ALL states is valid. Texas' crime rates flucuate in concert with those of the other states. Which is the more logical conclusion:
1. Texas' peculiar laws do not have a great effect on Texas crime rates

2. Texas' peculiar laws effect the crime rates nationally.

 

[TexasRifleman]

1. Texas' peculiar laws do not have a great effect on Texas crime rates

Again, you cannot say that the death penalty here has no deterrent effect. Statistics simply cannot show that it wouldn't be substantially higher WITHOUT the heavy use of the death penalty. You can't prove or disprove something like that with statistics.

I can make the argument just as easily that the heavy use of the death penalty here is why our crime rate is so much lower than other border states.

I can't prove it, and you can't prove yours. Statistics can be spun to show just about anything you want them to.