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Monday, December 17, 2012

It's about time.

Texas School District Will Let Teachers Carry Guns

County Police Chief Recommends Arming School Personnel

Austin Gun Store Owner Offers Teachers A Discount

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Anonymous said...: Add these two as well:

Sheriff calls for guns in schools
http://www.wlwt.com/news/local-news/butler-county/Butler-Co-deputies-up-visibility-Sheriff-calls-for-guns-in-schools/-/13601510/17802750/-/a7qm3rz/-/index.html

Sheriff: We must watch for signs of trouble:
http://www.wlwt.com/news/local-news/clermont-county/Sheriff-We-must-watch-for-signs-of-trouble-to-prevent-tragedy/-/13603144/17801372/-/7grsdnz/-/index.html

I know AJ he is as pro-gun as you can get.; December 17, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Here's what really happened in the Oregon shooting. The shooter killed himself as he was about to get shot by a guy who was carrying.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/20891/oregon-gun-owner-stops-clackamas-shooting-spree-proving-guns-save-lives; December 17, 2012 at 7:18 PM
John Otis Comeau said...: the Texas story is over 4 years old, not that it's not relevant.; December 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM
Anonymous said...: It had to be pointed out to me that this article came out back in 2008.

Strange how we haven't had an incident in that district...; December 17, 2012 at 10:19 PM
SWIFT said...: This is a great idea. I just hope that the school does not adopt a policy of:"One size fits all", when purchasing the guns. I have long advocated that people carry what they are comfortable with and to be sure the gun fits the hand. Too many times I've watched people buy whats in "vogue" and the gun was totally unsuited for them. Caliber is not near as important as a well place shot, with a gun that fits. Good on the school district.; December 18, 2012 at 4:50 AM
jon said...: texas first! i knew i chose right.; December 18, 2012 at 6:54 AM
Anonymous said...: Right now we need to be proactive, contacting our state senators and reps to make any necessary changes to state laws that will allow teachers to be armed, and to allow concealed carry in schools. After 911 congress armed airline pilots.
The program has been very successful and we need to adopt the same mindset for our schools.
If the left wants to have a discussion on guns, that discussion MUST include the option of defending our children with something other than spitballs or attempting another law that will fail spectacularly.
Kevin III; December 18, 2012 at 9:13 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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