In Texas
In the tiny Texas town of Harrold, children and their parents do not give much thought to their safety at the community’s only school, because they know that some of the teachers are carrying concealed weapons.
In the remote town, the nearest law enforcement office is 30 minutes away and the residents know each other and trust each other, so the school board made the momentous decision to allow teachers to arm themselves at their work around children.
December 3rd, 2014 at 10:08 pm
You can almost hear the Brit hyperventilate as he typed this.
December 4th, 2014 at 1:47 am
“‘Momentous’ decision” now describes what was once plain ole common sense.
December 4th, 2014 at 4:17 am
Throttle back Limey; it’s a pistol, not plutonium.
December 4th, 2014 at 10:23 am
Considering that if the teachers had decided to remain unarmed, there would likely be students keeping their own shotguns and rifles in their car trunks at school “just in case,” with their parents’ full support, and likely an armed parent or two quietly sitting in their cars in the parking lot every day, all day, until the crisis atmosphere subsided, I think the school took a sensible action.
December 4th, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Great! So like the children of the elite ruling class, they have armed protection while they’re in school.
December 4th, 2014 at 8:32 pm
I doubt the odds makers in Vegas would ever give odds that a school massacre would likely happen in the Harrold Independent School District.
Even cowardly and mentally deranged kids prefer to avoid armed resistance.
December 5th, 2014 at 1:17 am
The article gives the impression that the reporter visited Harrold. One wonders how many fresh sets of underwear he went through during his visit.