With the shooting events at Columbine School and Virginia Tech on their minds, the small school district of Harrold in North Texas has passed a new rule, and it’s causing debate around Texas and the country. Starting this term, teachers in the district can carry concealed firearms as long as they are licensed and trained in use of guns. In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations and have to use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls.
Governor Rick Perry of Texas has backed the policy, and suggested that he would fully support other districts doing the same thing with similar safeguards. So the argument starts. Are schools better off gun-free with no one having the ability to fight back, or responsible teachers being armed and trained to defend against those who would attack without regard for life.
Sounds easy to me. The school has authority called In Loco Parentis which gives them authority over the child in place of the parents during the time they are in school. If I am a parent, I will trust the responsible teacher packing before leaving the school open to savage attacks by the irresponsible who know they are attacking the vulnerable and defenseless.
Society is tired of being victimized, and this is yet another example that they’re not taking it anymore. I’m Gary Sutton.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Who do you trust when it comes to guns?
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Tuesday's Tech Tip: DIY cranial protectection
Ahhh. Finally, a practical Tuesday's Tech Tip. Part Two in a series.
New poll: Who will be Obama's VP?
Well, "running mate" really, but I needed to abbreviate to fit it in the poll title.
Anyway, who will it be? Who should it be?
I'm voting for "other." I like Sen. Jim Webb and would like to see him as the running mate for either party. Maybe he's too principled to survive the process.
John Conyers and ICE enforcement
I am absolutely puzzled! I recently read that immigration reform advocates, including Democrats like Chairman John Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee are calling for an end to Immigration and Customs raids at businesses that knowingly hire large numbers of illegal aliens. See why I’m puzzled? It doesn’t make any sense, does it?
What if law enforcement was watching a business which ended up illegally making drugs that were hurting people in our country? Would we claim that law enforcement should not raid that kind of place?
So now that I’ve posed some questions, try some of these facts that are actually happening. There was a report out of the Center for Immigration Studies last week showing that raids along with other enforcement methods are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing; reducing the number of foreigners illegally working and residing in the United States.
The illegal population has decreased by over one million persons in the past year. In fact, with the deportations, and self-deportations going on, the report states clearly that if this decline is sustained, it will reduce the illegal population by half in the next five years.
So why, then do people like Congressman John Conyers call these raids part of a “brutal, payback, gotcha” agenda being pursued by the United States government? No, Congressman. It would only be that if this were being done to law-abiding citizens who were living law-abiding lives. To equate them with those who are not is a lie. There is no brutality here, or payback, but there is gotcha.
In the end, lawful citizens are not puzzled so much as they are getting just outraged by your kind of pick and choose attitude on what to enforce in this land. The only “gotcha” that is involved is the fact that people are starting to see what hypocritical charlatans people like you actually are. I’m Gary Sutton.
Poll results: Anheuser-Busch sale to foreign company
Results: Meh. Four people cared. Everyone else drinks beer and couldn't care less.
Thomas Paine's Common Sense (and a second American Revolution)
Guest: Theresa Burke of Rachel's Vineyard
Yesterday, we had a wonderful discussion about the American Psychological Association's recent assertion that
"having an abortion in the first trimester and bringing a baby to full term has the same psychological effect on the woman."We had a number of women who have had abortions and children calling in with stories about the misery they have endured because of abortions, and the stories they are telling would-be abortion victims today.
In the course of the discussion, Theresa Burke's Rachel's Vineyard came up. She and this group are helping post abortion women with coping, and she will be on our show today at 10:10 to tell her story and take questions.
