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It's a tough line to toe. I have a special needs student in my class this year that has benefitted greatly from being in a regular classroom. That being said, in some instances, the extra time and effort spent on that one child has taken away what I can do with my other 16 students. It's a tough balancing act.

​Really? People are careless with guns sometimes. It's a matter of numbers, and if you arm that many people, someone is going to end up doing something stupid or careless. Cops have far more extensive training, and they still occasionally screw up and shoot the wrong people or have mishaps with their guns. Awhile back a woman was killed when she came up and hugged a cop from behind and somehow pulled the trigger on the gun he had in a shoulder rig. If you have enough guns involved, these things will happen. I'm all for arming teachers, as I've stated several times, but if you were to arm them, it's not a matter of IF one of these incidents happens, but When. Personally, I'm fine with the trade off. But you know the media will have a field day every time it happens.

i'll say this: if you were to arm 2 teachers at every school in the US, it would amount to well over 200,000 armed teachers. with that many teachers, you'd have a handful of incidents a year that could possibly put kids in danger. perhaps a careless teacher leaves a gun out on her desk and a child gets ahold of it, or one goes off while she's digging around in her drawer. perhaps a teacher with a gun overreacts to some sort of fight or intruder at school and shoots someone she maybe shouldn't shoot. those instances would start to happen (albeit not very often), and we would hear about them in the media. never mind if arming teachers all but ends the era of mass school shootings, you better believe that the media would seize onto any mistake that a teacher made. and that being said, the rare instance where a teacher in that situation did make a mistake would be a big deal, and is not an unreasonable argument against having them in school. still, I'd feel better if a teacher or two at my (hypothetical) child's school was armed (after sufficient training).

Not really. He just kind of blew me off. A lot of folks aren't entirely comfortable with the idea of guns in a school, and I can see that side of the argument as well.

nice!

agree. it's not practical or affordable for every school to have a fulltime police officer, but it's not impractical to think that every school has at least a teacher or two that is capable of handling a firearm. on top of that, many teachers would be willing to run towards danger to protect their students. I emailed our (ex) superintendent a couple of years ago after Sandy Hook asking about the possibility of our district sending a teacher or two from every campus to training to become qualified to carry on campus, but I was politely shot down.

​Can't a guy be historically bad just for the sake of being historically bad anymore?

Yup. Figured this one was over. Him out is their only chance.

I told y'all the series was over when the rockets lost game 1...

I'm wondering why you're so familiar with me!

[Hidden Content] a list of the things Calcasieu Parish is trying to apply for from the government through this program... One CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives) detection kit, and 27 bulletproof vests. Glad that we're trying to put a stop to police receiving all of these unnecessary items.

really? I'd rather have a big penis than a dead hog... ;)

we were supposed to get some industrial strength military spotlights to help, but Obama put the ixnay on that.

this was definitely a country boy's joke. and people that are outraged about the animal itself being killed have never had one destroy a deer feeder, yard, or garden. we shoot every single one we see, whether we plan on eating it or not.

What a finish!

I thought it was funny. If the pig was still alive, that would be cruel. If they stole someone's livestock, that would be wrong. But a dead wild pig? That's a good wild pig.

Heck of a comeback!

Nothing wrong with pocket knives, but if you use them in a brawl...

I gotta stop reading the comment sections on some of these websites. there are a lot of stupid people out there. Not talking about this site: I mean the comment sections below news articles and whatnot. by the way, the count is up to 118 pistols recovered, along with nearly 150 knives, plus chains and miscellaneous stuff.

I'm not sure exactly how it all went down... but if you have two separate groups fighting and shooting at one another, and a 3rd group, with better training and far superior firepower jumps into the fray while the other two are distracted, then that very well could account for it. not sure exactly what happened, but this would be a very viable explanation.

so this guy clearly hates the police. both articles are an effort to drag them through the mud. I have one major problem with them, though. Both articles are written in a way to cast serious doubt on police accounts of the shooting, and basically tries to pin the blame on them. Anyone reading the article can clearly see that. It gives the impression that a couple of guys are fighting, and then the cops just declare open season, indiscriminately killing anyone they see, even though it was just a minor dustup. But THEN, in another effort to again make the police look as badly as possible, the article gives the description of the scenario that one biker allegedly found himself in before being arrested (in order to criticize the police further): Among those arrested was Theron Rhoten, who had just pulled into the parking lot on his vintage Harley chopper when the bullets started flying. Rhoten showed up at the Twin Peaks restaurant for a regional motorcycle club meeting. But, according to his wife, he soon found himself in the middle of a deadly shootout involving scores of other bikers. Katie Rhoten said her husband ran for cover and was later arrested, along with motorcycle-riding friends and other “nonviolent, noncriminal people.” That doesn't really jive with the narrative the author of the "news piece" is selling, as he's suggested that the majority of the bikers were inside, not wielding weapons, and that it was generally a small fight that police just started blasting into.

Sweet!

I understand the law on that, but this is far from clear cut, right? let's say there's 300 people in there. a few start fighting. shots ring out. it spills out into the parking lot. more people start fighting. people get killed. all 300 are not responsible for that, though. I understand that there were a LOT of people fighting, but just because I'm with a group and some of them get in a fight does not make me responsible. now, if I'm with a group that's involved in a home invasion, sure, I'm held responsible for all acts that occur while committing that crime. but if I'm with a large group eating dinner and hanging out, not committing any criminal act, and it goes to crap and a bunch of folks around me start fighting, you mean to tell me that I'm going to be charged with first degree felonies for simply being there? I don't see that working out. A lot of these charges will be dropped completely, and many more will be reduced or pled down. in order to make these charges stick, they're going to have to find a way to prove that they were actually involved in the melee, and not simply in the vicinity. PS: Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not trying to lecture you. I just didn't feel like writing that whole paragraph as a question.

I think so.

Hardly. I'm a mavs fan. I'll pull for the rockets if the mavs are out because they're a texas team (although i do not extend that to the spurs :) ) but I also enjoy watching GS a lot. A bandwagon fan is the guy who hasn't watched the rockets in years and is now tuning in because they're finding some success again.