The home of Ernest T. Bass, ESQ -- the place that has alternated between trying to ban "Sharia Law" while burning down mosques -- the home of the Scopes Trial -- is the place with
this BRILLIANT idea:
Tennessee has emerged this week as a center of the “the answer is more guns in schools” sentiment following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting.
A member of the Republican-controlled legislature plans during its upcoming session to introduce a bill that would allow the state to pay for secretly armed teachers in classrooms so, the sponsor told TPM, potential shooters don’t know who has a gun and who doesn’t.
Rising Hegemon
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Tennessee is in a death race with Texas to become the nation's laboratory for bad government.
There are so many problems with this, one doesn't know where to begin. If the "secret" gun is locked up, can the teacher (or whomever) get to it quickly enough? Probably not, if it's secure enough to keep kids away from it. If it's more at the ready, what's to stop kids from grabbing it and playing around with it (or worse)?
And woe be to the teacher who doesn't manage to stop an attack by an intruder in time. It's automatically his or her fault. I'd almost think that was the underlying intent of the legislation, except that the guy proposing it is a real balloon brain and wouldn't have nearly that much imagination.
Sounds like a plan!!
Just ask them for the tax increase to pay for this stupidity.
Even better -- the teachers will be able to retaliate for any spitballs.
Funny how the wingnuts now demand that teachers be armed -- the same teachers they routinely (and unfairly) denounce (lazy, union stooges, etc.)...
Funny that they expect teachers to be more stable then wingnuts. Having been in a class where a teacher was driven insane by students I think it'd be more likely that some teachers would enforce discipline at the end of a .44. That probably be OK in the wingnut states: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment
Shirt
pretty state, but another planet.
Holy Mother of doG... I used to teach in Tennessee and I wouldn't want some of my former colleagues armed. But as anonymous said, all you have to do is threaten a tax increase. Voila! Problem solved. I haven't lived there in 20 years, though, so maybe things have changed.
Yeah, this hare-brained scheme can be scotched (which, coincidentally was my first thought as the drink of choice to spawn such a pickled idea) simply by rolling around the idea of the tax increase needed to fund it.
Alternatively, tell the nitwit who came up with this that you're fine with the idea, as long as teachers get the same pay, pension and retirement benefits of front-line police officers.
Ah, I see. So the plan for the next Rethug death lord is kill everyone you encounter in a school.
As a born and bred Tennessean who continues to live and work in the state, please do not lump us all in together with these cretins. I was educated here, own my own business, and voted for Obama twice. There is an underground of liberals all over the state. Trust me on this.
Are they going to give teachers hazardous duty pay now? Will they let them join the police unions? How are they going to pay for this? So many questions and so little time before the next hideous attack.
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