Posted on 12/29/2012 4:45:54 PM PST by native texan
While the federal government and other states ponder more rigorous gun control laws following the shootings at a Connecticut elementary school, some legislators in Texas have taken the opposite approach. They have emphasized the need to make firearms more available, and their discussions have included increasing access for teachers and other school personnel.
Ahead of the 83rd legislative session, bills have been proposed with that mission in mind. The efforts have drawn the praise of statewide elected officials including Gov. Rick Perry.
(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...
1) What are the long term consequences for the child of being treated like a criminal for 13 years by government school functionaries?
2) What will the consequences be in a generation or two in the voting booth if the citizens are trained to be comfortable prisoners of the state? , ( if this nation still has voting that means anything.)
Two You Tube videos:
" Prison vs School: The Tour
"School or Prison ( a very funny game)
Have you been to a maternity ward recently? Whew. Prison resembling conditions start at birth in publicly funded and privately funded hospitals. You have to be buzzed in and out and have your bracelet checked and sometimes scanned before you can hold your own baby. I guess the same is true in pediatric wings of hospitals.
I was telling hubby earlier about how much fun we used to have in school when we would sneak out the windows while the teacher was away. You can’t do that anymore in most schools because there are no distracting windows. I blame air conditioning. We did not have a/c in our classrooms in Mississippi. We had windows and fans to blow the hot air around.
Have you been to a maternity ward recently? Whew.
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This is a good point.
Done
When I was in high school, guys left their hunting rifles in the gun holder mounted across the back window of their pickups, with the pickup unlocked in the parking lot of the school. We didn’t feel like that made us like inmates in a prison.
My brother in the 1950s used to walk to school with his .22 rife hung across his back. He locked in his school locker and used it for his sharp shooting club. No one thought a thing about it.
Now kids walk through metal detectors, have pat downs and lockdowns, bag and locker searches, drug sniffing dogs walk the hallways, and solitary confinement rooms.
My brother in the 1950s used to walk to school with his .22 rife hung across his back. He locked in his school locker and used it for his sharp shooting club. No one thought a thing about it.
Now kids walk through metal detectors, have pat downs and lockdowns, bag and locker searches, drug sniffing dogs walk the hallways, and solitary confinement rooms.
That should be rifle with an “L”. :-)
Californians and east coasters can do whatever they want in their states ... as long as they leave the rest of us in the sane part of the country alone.
Since harridans like Feinstein have made it clear that they will not, I see no happy ending for this lefty-generated crisis. Bring it on, lefty pukes.
“There’s things that gnaw on a man worse than dying.”
Charley, `Open Range’
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