Missouri Governor Matt Blunt (R) suggests arming teachers,

[gordianot]

MO Governor Matt Blunt (aka Baby Blunt) (son of wingnut Roy Blunt) suggests arming teachers with guns. Apparently this was brought on by the shooting in Joplin, MO. After some consideration Baby Blunt is now backing down a momentary lapse of sanity. I have been in education 30 years, and I spend weekends at the shooting range, never even once have I ever considered the remote possibility of bringing firearms to school for any reason. Retirement looks better every day. I am really sick of Repukes.

see link: http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/10046161/detail.html

Gov. Matt Blunt is promoting an Oct. 19 Internet-based telecast to Missouri schools and emergency responders to discuss school safety. Although the telecast was announced after Monday's school shooting in Joplin, a Blunt spokesman said Tuesday that it already had been arranged in response to recent fatal school shootings in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Colorado.
Asked by a reporter Monday in Joplin whether it would be worth considering a legislative proposal to allow teachers to carry guns to school, Blunt said: "It's an interesting idea worth discussing."
But Tuesday, a Blunt spokesman stressed the governor is not proposing armed teachers. Nor has the office heard from any lawmakers supporting the idea, said Blunt spokesman Spence Jackson.
"He was in no way saying that we ought to arm teachers, and it was not his initiative, and it was not his suggestion this ought to be done," Jackson said.
Todd Fuller, a spokesman for the 43,000-member Missouri State Teachers Association in Columbia, said teachers would have concerns about such an idea, including questions about liability, training and student safety.
"Teachers don't necessarily think it's a good idea to carry weapons in the classroom," Fuller said. "They feel like their primary responsibility is teaching."

[MichiganVote]

1. In Texas I could believe it, elsewhere? No way...

[MO_Dem]

8. Oh, our baby blunt is real piece of work

He's just "having it both ways" for now. He will only endorse the idea if it turns out to be a popular idea nationwide. If not, he will never have entertained such a cockeyed plan.

[gordianot]

11. This one is not playing well, a source of ridicule, it is a major mistake.

Being from Missouri I am sure you know it is one of many.

[MO_Dem]

15. Oh, yessss

For one thing, MSTA is generally a conservative organization and stepping out in front of them is another of baby blunt's boneheaded moves.

The sooner MO is rid of him and his pappy and the horse they rode in on, the better! :toast:

[HeeBGBz]

14. He's a Bushbot suck up

That's my home state.

[gordianot]

16. Daddy and Junior are not on good terms.

Junior is still upset with Daddy over his (lobbyist) trophy wife. You are right, Baby Blunt is a Bushbot, who is overcompensating.

[MO_Dem]

20. Hi HeeBGBz!

Pleased to meet ya! And you're right! :applause:

[Sherman A1]

17. Yes, our Boy Governor Speaks with such authority

why does the term "Twit" come to mind??

[Ishoutandscream2]

10. Damn straight. Never would this happen elsewhere!

Especially Michigan! After all, there's no gun violence there or crazy, right wing militias in that state.:crazy:

[stepnw1f]

2. Republicans Trying to Place Guns in Schools

What do you know.... instead of affording to keep them out, they want them in there. These people seem to love tragedy.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Ridiculous

Schools are dangerous as it is, what would happen if guns were already in school. Knowing they could find guns every nut and their brother would be after them.

[TomInTib]

4. Hell, arm the Ministers.

Just look at all the shootings on church properties every year.

Can't you just see it?

Preacher reaches into that thing that they stand behind, pulls out a Python and just blows the bastard all the way home to Baby Jesus.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Give me a fucking break.....but then, I'm not surprised.

What has come over this country?

Teachers with guns - what's next?

[ChoralScholar]

6. >Teachers with guns - what's next?

bleeding students.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. And when a student jumps a teacher and grab his piece =

A war scene.

This idea is so sick..................

[spindrifter]

7. So they can kill our children? No way.

I went to school in one of the toughest areas in the country. We survived without armed teachers--or if they were armed, no one knew it. One of my high school friends later returned to teach in our city and got stabbed in class by a kid. No guns for teachers.

[Bucky]

22. As I teacher, I kinda like this idea. There's several children I'd shoot.

I can see this working quite will with my classroom management plan, actually...

"What's that, Jose? No homework? OK, hold out your hand, Jose. You know the consequences for not doing homework..." *BLAM!*

"Alright, kids, get out your history journals for five minutes of free writing... Wait, wait... Susan, what's with that pencil? We write in our history journals with pens, not pencils, dammit..." < teacher reaches for .45 >

[spindrifter]

23. And your principal will reward you with

"Heckuvajob, Bucky, heckuvajob."

[stillcool]

9. what about that microwave

weapon? ..or those ruber bullets that killed that girl at a Red Sox Celebration? Or tasers? These are perfectly acceptable non-lethal weapons to be used on children... in our new age of torture.

[BlooInBloo]

13. Yet another test of the idiocy of the American electorate....

... I'm not hopeful.

[woodsprite]

18. I heard the same thing from my freeper DBA co-worker.

He said we need to learn our lesson from Israel. Said that suicide bombers and attacks on schools went down when they started arming their teachers. Why would a suicide bomber care if he got shot to smithereens?

[billbuckhead]

21. Is the tide finally turning on unlimited "gun rights"?

More innocent Americans are killed and wounded every day than our soldiers in Iraq. Every year more innocent Americans are killed by guns then were killed on 9-11. Our weak and weakly enforced gun regulations are nothing less than domestic terrorism.

From the Brooking's Institute:

"Compared with other developed nations, the United States is unique in its high rates of both gun ownership and murder. Although widespread gun ownership does not have much effect on the overall crime rate, gun use does make criminal violence more lethal and has a unique capacity to terrorize the public. Gun crime accounts for most of the costs of gun violence in the United States, which are on the order of $100 billion per year."
<http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/evaluatinggunpolicy.htm>

[SmokingJacket]

19. Worst solution ever.

New problem: teachers flipping out in class and shooting students. I've had teachers with very short fuses -- I fondly remember the day when one bashed a student over the head with a textbook because he barked at her (he deserved it).

There are many, many thousands of teachers, and they're people, too. They have crack-ups and breakdowns just like anyone. NO guns in school is just a better policy.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

24. According to my hubby, he had a teacher (nun) in parochial school

who beat the snot out of the kids with a ruler almost daily. Can you imagine if she had had a gun??:scared:

[gordianot]

25. The nuns I remember would never shoot a student...............

If the student died it would have ended all the fun wih the ruler.