A quick thought on Frank Lasee’s idea of arming teachers and the rabid reaction to it.

While I have my own reservations about Frank Lasee‘s proposal to to allow trained school personnel to carry concealed weapons, viagra sale case I’m beginning to get annoyed by the overwrought reaction of most of his critics.

Every time I hear someone say that the idea is just crazy, ampoule I imagine a classroom full of children with a teacher standing at the front of the class.

An intruder with a weapon comes into the room.

Luckily, the teacher is armed.

Just as she is about to defend the lives of her students, a well-meaning person steps into the room and confiscates her gun.

“I’m sorry,” the person says, “it’s just not reasonable for us to let teachers have guns.”

The person then leaves the teacher and the students alone with the armed intruder.

This IS what people who deny the rest of us the opportunity to defend ourselves with a concealed weapon do every single day. They leave us helpless at the hands of people who don’t mind violating every gun law ever passed.

Bottom line?

I think the politicians and voters who deny us our right to self-defense are nearly as culpable for our victimization as the criminals who rape, rob and murder us.

UPDATE: A respected “law blogger” also thinks the idea isn’t that crazy.

EDIT: I changed “just as culpable” to “nearly as culpable.” On reflection, I decided I should ratchet the rhetoric down a notch.

3 comments October 6th, 2006


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