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Texas teachers get guns

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/ts_nm/texas_guns_dc

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.

The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district's superintendent, David Thweatt.

School experts backed Thweatt's claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom.

Thweatt said it is a matter of safety.

"We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, 'What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?" he said. "It's just common sense."

Teachers who wish to bring guns will have to be certified to carry a concealed handgun in Texas and get crisis training and permission from school officials, he said.

Recent school shootings in the United States have prompted some calls for school officials to allow students and teachers to carry legally concealed weapons into classrooms.

The U.S. Congress once barred guns at schools nationwide, but the U.S. Supreme Court struck the law down, although state and local communities could adopt their own laws. Texas bars guns at schools without the school's permission.

Re: Texas teachers get guns

Go TEXAS! Finally a policy that makes sense!

Re: Texas teachers get guns

In my home county the county PD puts an officer in each school, he is called the "resource officer." At first I thought it was an unnecessary and coercive idea, and then I realized the following and actually said this to the "resource officer" at my daughter's grade school:

"You know, I'm really glad you're at the school. You have the three things that are really necessary here if the crap hits the fan: training, a radio, and a gun."

He smiled.

If I lived in a rural county where I knew almost everyone and had good reason to believe that the teachers were raised in the firearms culture, I'd be advocating this in my schools as well. Otherwise, I'd want to see the certification program first, but I still think it's a good idea. The gun control crowd predicted carnage when concealed carry laws were relaxed; the carnage never happened, and crime rates fell.