[JTHomes]

I think what I meant was teachers would get more respect if they could threaten punks with their gun. Whoa, totally just kidding, don't have a cow. Really though, if teachers were viewed as protectors as well as educators, with a serious job to do, they would deserve and command the respect of their students. It should be like that anyway, but many kids don't learn respect or feel protected at home so school is the last resort for instilling these lessons. Anyway, I greatly respect and support good teachers for all they do and put up with. The bad ones can go - clean erasers.

[twigs]

I think there was time when I would have agreed with you. I'm sure that my ancestors in rural areas did carry guns when they took their kids to school and taught them. That's when we knew our neighbors. We're just too big and heterogeneous today. I wouldn't send my child to a school where teachers carried guns. Now, if all the teachers and students came from the neighborhood where we had all grown up together and I knew their families, I would feel quite differently. I'm very pro-second amendment. But I just don't know these people we're advocating arming around the children and I do have a problem with that. It's not the gun that's the problem. It's the people I don't know who possesses them!