Guns, teachers, and self-defense(ma)

Boston Globe ^ | 28 December, 2009 | DOUG VAN GORDER

[marktwain]

I AM a math teacher at Brockton High School, the site of a school shooting earlier this month. --------------------cut---------------------------- An alternative to lockdown is immediate exodus via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages and makes it nearly impossible for the shooter to acquire preselected targets, it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety off-site more shrewdly and efficiently than others.

Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful. A level barrel is fair to all fish. -------------------------------cut------------------------ But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.

[BorisTheBulletDodger]

My child is about to be murdered in front of me by some psycho. I am holding a loaded gun in my hand. Gee, what do I do next?

This is what you do next:

http://feeds.radioamerica.org/podcast/GGL/audio/000003_006097.mp3

(from the G. Gordon Liddy radio show)

[yoe]

This is why progressives are not good for combat or anything else for that matter that takes courage and cool thinking. I wonder how good his math is.......

[Teacher317]

Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful.

Unreal. So communities that FREELY choose to accept higher taxes for better schools should simply have those funds confiscated and used for others' benefit? Or should we all be forced to pay exactly the same, and have all schools be exactly the same size to avoid those pesky economies-of-scale advantages? What a buffoon.

[marktwain]

There is no question that the author, DOUG VAN GORDER, is a satirist of the first order. The amazing thing is that it is so close to believable!

I posted this, but after a little research, it became clear that Doug Van Gorder is not only a talented satirist, but also a recently published author. I will probably buy his book: Hitchhiking Across America. Here is the Amazon link:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=DOUG+VAN+GORDER++++amazon&aq=f&aqi=&oq=DOUG+VAN+GORDER++++amazon&fp=cbc2f75bf9d43a8f

[Darkwolf377]

I've worked with Boston teachers in my current and my last job.

This letter is a perfect encapsulation of their mindset. Their PC coma is never sullied by the loud noises from "reality" as human beings with working brains know it.

I fought such people daily for nearly four years. Their ignorance astonished me repeatedly, because I kept waiting for them to "get" it. Then I'd go out into the parking lot so I could walk home, past the beautiful, shiny cars and SUVs their parents bought for them, and stopped fighting off reality myself.