God Bless Texas Options

[Psykopath]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/ts_nm/texas_guns_dc

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.

The board of the small rural Harrold Independent School District unanimously approved the plan and parents have not objected, said the district's superintendent, David Thweatt.

School experts backed Thweatt's claim that Harrold, a system of about 110 students 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth, may be the first to let teachers bring guns to the classroom.

Thweatt said it is a matter of safety.

"We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, 'What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?" he said. "It's just common sense."

Teachers who wish to bring guns will have to be certified to carry a concealed handgun in Texas and get crisis training and permission from school officials, he said.

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I've been discussing this fun little topic in a thread on Yelp. I think I'm the only one on there who thinks it's an ok idea. Everyone else is like "omfg, guns around our kids!!!!1one11!!!"

But I'm actually having a nice, reasoned discussion about it on there. Kinda cool.