From: Edgar W Swank (edgarswank@juno.com)
Date: Thu Sep 16 1999 - 03:33:44 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@www.aeiveos.com> wrote
>On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>
>> ... which is why the schools are all gun free zones these days (they
>> didn't used to be),
>
>Ah yes, lets give the teachers guns so they can defend themselves
>from the students.
Absolutely! Why aren't teachers entitled to defend themselves
against violent students?
>Or were you suggesting that the students have
>them so they can take out their aggressions with lethal weapons
>instead of the more common fists?
For a start, lets have a firearms safety course as part of the
curriculum, and a (supervised) rifle & pistol marksmanship club
as an after-school activity.
On from there, lets have a civics class that teaches when use of
deadly force in self-defense is permissible and when it's not.
Next step: Anyone of 16 years who has passed all the
gun-education courses and demonstrates good enough marksmanship
that he isn't a danger to innocent bystanders (and doesn't have a
violent criminal history, mental illness, etc.) gets a concealed
carry permit, good inside and outside school property.
>I'll suggest a compromise --
>Rules of engagement of the royalty -- if you feel insulted you
>slap the other persons face with a glove and then cross foils
>after class....
If both parties are willing, I have no objection. But the
concealed carry permit is for the non-violent student who needs
to defend himself against an aggressive and violent troublemaker
(or more than one), when no "authority figures" are around to
protect him (or her).
Edgar W. Swank <EdgarSwank@Juno.com>
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