Posted on 08/15/2008 2:58:52 PM PDT by groanup
Texas school district OKs pistols for staff
HARROLD, Texas — A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported.
Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting teachers follow certain requirements.
In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations and have to use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
This was just published on AJC. If a dupe please dump. Thanks.
Just pistols...eh?
What if they only own revolvers?
Another “well” written story about guns by someone who has never touched a gun in their life.
saw this on the MPLS Star Tribune site. the libtards are beside themselves with grief.
Here's a free clue: Revolvers are pistols too.
pis·tol
-noun
1. a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
Open mouth, insert foot.
hand·gun
: a firearm (as a revolver or pistol) designed to be held and fired with one hand
pis·tol
: a handgun whose chamber is integral with the barrel
That definition was when many carried derringers where the chamber was a part of the barrel. In this day and age a pistol is virtualy most any handgun.
This is a good start. The students (at least those over 18 years old) should also be allowed to carry a gun to school.
A revolver is a pistol. If you want to look like a damned fool, keep arguing the point.
The teachers may be armed to shoot coyotes that run through the area and druggies coming up from Dallas or Messicans that come from the South, but if they are arming themselves to protect themselves from the locals they'd better put some KY Jelly on their guns because they will be inserted easier when it happens.
Having distinct words to mean "handheld single-chamber firearm" (typically semi-auto), "handheld multi-barrel firearm", "handheld revolving-cylinder firearm", and "handheld firearm of any description" would be useful. Nonetheless, in common usage, the terms "pistol" and "revolver" are often freely interchanged (more often using the term "pistol" to describe revolving-cylinder handguns, but sometimes using the term "revolver" in reference to single-chamber automatics).
Of course, since it doesn't seem like people are going to stop calling mags "clips" any time soon either, I guess the pendants will just have to keep fuming (though on the latter point, why is the Garand's "clip" not called a "magazine", given that it encloses the rounds that are in the weapon ready for chambering? It is true that the Garand's "clip" doesn't include a follower mechanism, but gravity-feed magazines don't have followers either.
FINALLY!!! Well, I can tell you one school district that will NOT be on any criminals’ short-list of places to make a statement!
A failed attempt on my part to point out the continuing anti-gun bias that always sneaks its way into good news stories like this one.....
Oh, well. Sucks to be me.
You tried. Thanks for the effort.
I got it. :-)
I concur with this move. You don’t see cowards attacking gun ranges or police stations. Cowards only attack ‘gun free zones’.
Texas Ping
smartest public school district in the nation.
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