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Title: Texas school where teachers carry guns prepared to protect students
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Star Telegram
URL Source: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/1 ... chers-carry.html#disqus_thread
Published: Dec 14, 2012
Author: Bill Miller
Post Date: 2012-12-15 01:00:53 by Abcdefg
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Views: 5328
Comments: 15
Texas Gov. Rick Perry urged school districts to review their plans to ensure they are prepared to respond to incidents such as the horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school Friday. David Thweatt, superintendent of the tiny Harrold school district in northwest Texas, believes his staff is ready. Besides special locks and security cameras, an undisclosed number of staff members and teachers carry concealed handguns. Thweatt said the "guardian plan," which drew international attention when it was implemented in 2008, definitely enhances student safety. "Is that 100 percent? No," Thweatt said Friday in a telephone interview. "Nothing is 100 percent. But what we do know is that we've done all we can to protect our children." At the time the plan was put in place, Harrold, about 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, was the only known public school district in Texas and the U.S. that allowed staff members and teachers to carry concealed weapons. Thweat said he knows of some other districts that have since adopted similar policies, but declined to name them. Harrold school officials do not announce which teachers are "packing" and those participating must have proper concealed carry licenses. They must also be approved by the school board to carry on school grounds. Board members approved the measure because the district is at least 20 minutes from the nearest station of the Wilbarger County Sheriff's Department. The district has one school, with about 110 students and 15 teachers, according to the Texas Education Agency. "We have one entry to the school," Thweatt said, adding that special locks can be activated from his office. "We also have the cameras, but we didn't have anything to deal with an active shooter." The guardian plan was researched for more than a year before the school board considered it. Some board members didn't like it. "My board at first didn't want to be the poster child for this," he said. But Thweatt said he wanted to minimize casualties that could quickly increase while waiting for deputies. He didn't want a plan where you "lock yourself in your closet and hope that an intruder won't hurt you. So what we came up with was a policy that would protect." Still, the strategy draws criticism from people who "don't believe guns, kids and schools mix," Thweatt said. There has not been an incident on his campus, and Thweatt doesn't expect one. He said his heart was heavy after learning of Friday's shooting in Connecticut, in which 20 elementary school students were killed by a 20-year-old gunman. "It's just tearing me up," he said. "...I have children of my own. I can't stand to think of my little guys just getting slaughtered like that. My heart just bleeds for these people."
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#1. To: Abcdefg (#0)
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I kept thinking this was ... Newton Massachusetts quite the liberal reputation --- not Connecticut ! If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
Our job is to keep elephants away, and as you can plainly see, Not One elephant has made it's way in to our school.
And of course we had to say something. Cause Texas is never changing, no matter how much we have to take away from food/health/learning programs to pay for our defense. See War of 9/11 for details on how this works..... But a Marine official here raised questions about whether the children were “innocent.” Before calling for the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System mission in mid-October, Marines observed the children digging a hole in a dirt road in Nawa district, the official said, and the Taliban may have recruited the children to carry out the mission. Shockingly, the article quotes a senior officer saying that the military isn’t just out to bomb “military age males,” anymore, but kids, too: “It kind of opens our aperture,” said Army Lt. Col. Marion “Ced” Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. “In addition to looking for military-age males, it’s looking for children with potential hostile intent.”
If you allow people to have jobs and children to get Non-Leftard educations then you wouldn't have to spend all of that money on those useless programs!!
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammunition box.”
When I was in Cuba during Operation Sea Signal (the Cuban migrant event) in the early 90s they had about 25 camps set up to house all of the migrants... Along with a detention camp for adults (X-Ray) and one for juveniles (Baby X-Ray)... So having to deal with children with "possible hostile intent" is nothing new... X-Ray eventually morphed into what we have today known as Camp Delta, and I'm not sure if Baby X-Ray morphed into something else or not. I'm not sure if Delta sits on the same site as X-Ray or not because I haven't been back to Cuba since it was established!!
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammunition box.”
Care to re phrase this? No, I did not think so. If you allow people to have jobs and children, you wouldn't have to spend all of that money on those useless programs!! Try again. And thinking that I left out: 'to get Non-Leftard educations' makes your 'sentence' complete, means that you wre staring out the window when teacher was explaining Sentence Diagrams....;}
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Anyone want to smoke some pot?....;} Right before the massacre today, the movie Zero Dark Thirty was getting all the publicity it could wring out of the media... radio, tv, print. The pure propaganda of Hollywood then transitioned into the pure terror of another homeland murder spree but with much the same message...security is of the essence. They Shoot Children, Don’t They? Sandy Hook Massacre: Sympathy from the Devil Sandy Hook Shooting: Autistic Gunman Killed 26 in 2 minutes? Mother Killed At Home? Father in Financial Services? Bloomberg: Calling for 'meaningful action' is not enough. We need immediate action.
No, I did not think so. If you allow people to have jobs and children, you wouldn't have to spend all of that money on those useless programs!! Try again. And thinking that I left out: 'to get Non-Leftard educations' Should I have said "let their parents get jobs and the children not be forced into getting a useless Leftard Education"??
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammunition box.”
You have mail.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Thank you, next time I go to the U.P. I will have to stop and visit that place, it sounds like it's as beautiful as Pictured Rocks...
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammunition box.”
Yeah. That makes more sense, but also Shows your position. Which is what you were trying to avoid in your first Sentence Fragment. SO. Accordingly, we need free contraceptives, readily available, and ready access to Planned Parenthood Clinics. Then, jobs that pay a living wage so that One parent can stay home or a Working Fed Funded Day Care. 'the useless Leftard Education' I have no idea what you're talking about.
Well let's just go check it out for a minute and see if it jogs your memory... 1). It teaches a version of history of the USA that is false and portrays the founding fathers as a form of terrorist or slave traders... And that we go running around the world killing everybody that doesn't agree with the policies of our country... 2). The 10 Commandments--- what are those??? And then they substitute a religion that promotes immorality and the killing of non-believers for the Commandments... 3). Pledge of Allegiance--- what's that!! 4). It teaches that the economic system that allowed their parents to earn a decent living that put a roof over the childs head, clothes on the childs back and food on the childs plate is unfair, unjust and immoral... Instead it portrays the system (Socialism) that is about the worst in the world as something to be admired... (Working hard and being an individual is a bad thing, being a parasite and voting for handouts is a good thing)... 5). The Constitution--- what's that!! 6). It teaches that being a real man or a real woman is a bad thing, being gay, a Metrosexual or a Feminazi is much better...
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammunition box.”
As EVERY Gov't Ever in existence does this, I'll need a certain example. Mossad/cheney/SS/NORAD/CIA/FBI did 9/11. Wait for that one to show up in school class.....;} But Good News! ← EXCLUSIVE: Drug Traffickers Own Jenni Rivera Death Plane FINALLY! Rudi Dekkers Behind Bars for Drug Trafficking Posted on December 14, 2012 by Daniel Hopsicker Share via emailShare via email The long run of Rudi Dekkers, 56, the Dutch national who first passed out bunks to Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi when they arrived in the United States to enroll at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, ended last week when he was arrested for drug trafficking in Houston.(read the criminal complaint .pdf)
crickets..... The fundamentally unjustified and highly selective focus -- on feel-good stories on one hand, and on only narrowly delimited evils on the other -- always seeks to achieve a whitewash of this kind: it attempts to obliterate the reality of the obviously related, but unacknowledged greater evils in the broader system. In this sense, all such efforts are cover-ups, they are intellectually dishonest, and they are always lies.
#2. To: Abcdefg (#0)
#3. To: BorisY (#1)
#4. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
Cause Texas is never changing, no matter how much we have to take away from food/health/learning programs to pay for our defense.
#5. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
In addition to looking for military-age males, it’s looking for children with potential hostile intent.”
#6. To: CZ82 (#4)
If you allow people to have jobs and children
#7. To: All (#6)
#8. To: All (#7)
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#9. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
Care to re phrase this?
#10. To: CZ82 (#9)
#11. To: sneakypete (#10)
#12. To: CZ82 (#9)
let their parents get jobs and the children not be forced into getting a useless Leftard Education
#13. To: mcgowanjm (#12)
'the useless Leftard Education' I have no idea what you're talking about.
#14. To: CZ82 (#13)
1). It teaches a version of history of the USA that is false
#15. To: All (#14)
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