[dhuffman@awod.com]

Bad guys can't ever be trusted and the cops aren't doing so well in (Philly) schools at the moment. Have Moms or Dads screwed up recently?

As to "educators" being stunned, considering the sorry state of education in SC, "Well, duuuh!"

The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.

[DWSUWF]

"..."Parents will be outraged to learn the General Assembly would consider making it public policy to have concealed weapons in places where we believe school children are the safest," said Robert Scarborough, executive director of the S.C. Association of School Administrators..."

What a moron...

American public schools are UNSAFE, on multiple levels, both for the bodies and the minds of those children unfortunate enough to find themselves attending them.

[Twodees]

South Carolina legislators are doing what legislators in every state should be doing; going on the attack. The yankee liberal owners of the State newspaper were obviously stunned, rather than any "educators" as suggested by the title.

[lavaroise]

"The bills' supporters are playing on macho fantasies,"

As opposed to hysterical fantasies of flying guns shooting people?

[AAABEST]

This is a terrible idea.

Everyone knows the only people who should have guns on school property are insane killers and over-medicated children.

Arming responsible adults is a step in the wrong direction.

[shekkian]

This is the sort of thing that could have prevented Columbine.

[aomagrat]

"These people have demonstrated they are responsible. They are not the kind of people we have to worry about," said Bauer.

Bingo!

It's not the permit holders that you need to worry about. A criminal isn't going to go to the expense and trouble of getting a permit. They're just going to get a gun, go to school and start shooting. When that happens, I want someone there who's able to shoot back.

[LibertyGirl77]

Sen. Darrell Jackson, D-Richland, was aghast at the idea of armed citizens staging gun battles in state schools.

Well, of course. It's much more orderly if bullets are only flying in one direction. < /sarcasm >

[Free the USA]

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[ez]

Jim Foster, spokesman for the S.C. Department of Education, said the state's 1,100 public schools are "gun-free zones" with "zero tolerance" for weapons.

"It's difficult to see how softening that position would make our schools safer," Foster said.

Because all the best shootings take place in gun-free zones...

[prambo]

"...educators..." - the lowest of the low.

"...hidden..." "...outraged..." - more libero-Nazi buzz words

"...aghast at the idea of armed citizens staging gun battles in STATE schools." Where did the moron come up with this scenario; gun battles in private schools would be OK, I suppose.

"...bill requires a church's leadership to give written permission before a person can carry a hidden gun in church." - What about the vaunted, and totally non-existent, Constitutional separation of church and state?

prambo