US Teacher Wants To Take Her Gun To School
WELL, given what the nippers are packing, it will make a fair fight of it:
“English teacher Shirley Katz insists she needs to take her pistol with her to school because she fears her ex-husband could show up and try to harm her. She’s also worried about a Columbine-style attack.
“But Katz’s district has barred teachers from bringing guns to school, so she is challenging the ban as unlawful, since Oregon is among states that allow people with a permit to carry concealed weapons into public buildings.
“‘This is primarily about my Second Amendment right and Oregon law and the simple fact that I know it is my right to carry that gun,’ says Katz.
“I have that (concealed weapons) permit. I refuse to let my ex-husband bully me. And I am not going to let the school board bully me, either.”
Even if the board does have a bigger gun…
Source: Yahoo
October 9th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
someone should shoot your typist, his/her spelling is atrocious
October 9th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I don’t know about Oregon’s laws, but wow.
If this is due to her husband, I think she should express her concerns to the judge (I presume they’ve been to court and have restraining orders, etc.) as it isn’t just her own safety at risk, but that of school children. (in the event the husband did do anything rash)
I still don’t agree that a teacher should be able to carry a gun in school.
Everyone makes typos, as long as I can understand the gist of it, it’s okay by me!
October 9th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Yeah why not. Everyone should have a gun. Three even. One for both hands, and one spare in case you lose one or something. You could loan it to a depressed friend maybe.
I think this Woman shouldn’t get involved with Men or Children. guns are fine. Ban people. Including Women. Especially ones with guns.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:33 am
helsangel - she has guns for fingers
October 10th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Something I don’t understand in all of this. Everyone use Columbine as an example of why people should have a right to carry arms, etc. (adults). But wasn’t Columbine meant to be a bombing? One that failed?
I understand a lot of people did have their lives snatched away even if it was meant to be a bombing, it’s a terrible thing. But with that information, there were other ways to stop a “Columbine-like” attack (like being more involved with your kids, teachers being more involved, bullying, therapy, bomb guides online, etc.) before jumping to the “well I need to carry a gun too” solution. I’ve read about a principal or assistant principal in favor of carrying a gun he had a permit for, etc. and I can see more sense in that than letting a teacher, who interacts with the children all day (and has children in her classroom/office area all day) to carry one. The fact that this is an emotionally charged situation doesn’t helped matters either (the stuff going on with her husband and the custody battle, it says the husband called the principal and assured him he didn’t want to harm her and wasn’t going near the school). More sense in the assistant principal/principal usage, but I still don’t support it, just think the logistics would make more sense…
October 11th, 2007 at 3:18 am
What does one do to protect ones self from the ‘children’ in school today? Today another shooting at a high school, in Ohio this time. 14 year old boy brought a gun to school and shot 3 teachers. Far from the first case of a student shooting the teachers and certainly won’t be the last, as long as ‘the right to bear arms’ makes guns so easily accessible to ‘angry’ children!
Answer to stopping it maybe? Give them all A’s, no homework, let them disrupt the class when they want, let them swear at the teachers, beat up other kids in the classroom without sending them to principal’s office or suspending them. Just turn the schools over to the kids to run!