South Dakota to allow teachers to have guns

I'm a little surprised none of you have posted any comments here yet.
I wonder how can anyone in their right mind can see this as a good idea. There is absolutely no way I would ever send my child to a school where the teachers carry around loaded guns.

Wouldn't really want to live in a society or a country that seems to require that everybody be heavily armed all of the time either. Not needing to be armed seems to me to be the hallmark of a civilized society.

Wow a gun thread, but not by Bart!

Hyack, feelin an itch? Start a thread in order to eventually lock it?

You have to be born American I guess.

All they need now is for an armed teacher to go a bit crazy and then the headline will be, "South Dakota to allow students to have guns".



Because we all know, the solution to the gun problem is more guns.

Up until the 1970's it was perfectly fine for kids to have guns at school. Many high schools in the USA had their own firing ranges and the Boy Scouts had a marksmanship merit badge. It was also not unusual for high school kids to have shotguns and rifles in their trucks so they could go hunting before or after school.

My father-in-law recalled that in Woodland in the 1930's there were a number of kids who brought firearms to elementary school for shooting classes.

With all of that hardware at the schools there were no massacres, no kids killing each other, and no one wet themselves at the thought of kids with guns at school.

It's somewhat hypocritical, then, that some people do not want kids to be taught firearms safety like they used to be but then they'll insist that five year olds need to be taught sex education because ignorance is dangerous.

We have firearms in the world. Deal with it. Teaching the kids about these things and showing them examples of responsible people, such as teachers, who are trained to use their firearms properly is not irresponsible.

Probably because this one has been beaten--or dare I say "shot"?--to death in fifty similar threads.

We were allowed to smoke in class too... might as well teach kids how to smoke responsibly when they're young. I wouldn't have minded having a cold beer too.

Teaching a child responsibility means nothing. Also who is to say what is proper training? I'm hearing that lots lately and since there is actually no standard training across the nation it really means nothing. Knowing how to load a gun and hitting the dirt pile at a gun range seems to qualify as trained these days. Are crossed pistol badges going to be a requirement for teaching now?

You were allowed to smoke? I always remembered high school where we had a smoking area for the kids while the teachers could smoke anywhere they wanted to.

The same can be said for sex education in the public schools.

The world has changed since the 70s, Bart, in case you hadn't noticed.
Back then, in South Dakota, they actually taught creationism in high school.



Damn it!!! I think I've just painted myself into a corner.

You were allowed to smoke? I always remembered high school where we had a smoking area for the kids while the teachers could smoke anywhere they wanted to.
I don't think so in high school, but I didn't smoke back then so I can't be sure.
We were allowed to smoke in university classes, though.

I have. Back then they taught firearms safety in the schools and we didn't have kids shooting each other at school.

Now we don't teach firearms safety and the kids shoot each other.

Seems to me the old way worked better.