Yeah, And Them Ole Ta-Tas Get In The Way Of Clear Thinking and Good Aim.
Well, crap on a cracker, it’s Aladamnbama. What the fool tarnation did you expect?
Wondering if arming teachers is a dandy idea, Alabama Republican State Representative Harry Shiver (no kidding, that’s his name) had this to say:
… guns should not be placed in the hands of “our ladies” — meaning female teachers — many of whom he believes are “scared” of firearms.
“I’m not saying all [women], but in most schools, women are [the majority] of the teachers,” Shiver, a lawmaker representing a district northeast of Mobile, told AL.com in an interview published Thursday.
We can’t arm teachers because they are mostly girls and girls get all creeped out about guns.
Hey Harry, you bet your sweet misogynistic butt we do. If it takes misogynistic crapola to stop this bad idea of arming teachers, I’m gonna let it slide this time. And I hope some woman doesn’t get real pissed off at you and hit you upside the head with our weapon of choice – a frying pan. Or strangle you with our apron strings. Or give birth right in front of you and make you faint and hit your head on a rock.
Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.
I assume he’s never seen any of the hundreds of videos of women firing at tin cans or targets with politicians of their choice.
1And will conservative female voters take umbrage?
Crickets…
2It takes a good ole southern boy like Harry to remind us how much further we have to go to eddykate men about womens’ rights. Take the case of the male teacher who tried to teach his class about gun safety. He shot 3 of them.
3Women who are trained in safe gun handling and shooting could shoot Harry under the table, but teachers (both men and women) are trained in something else: targeting the strengths and weakness of students’ learning styles and abilities in order to further their intellectual growth.
Harry, sit down and shut up.
I wonder if he would have dared to say that to Annie Oakley.
4Or seeing a women breast feeding can send men into turmoil!
5You omitted my weapon of choice: a razor sharp boning knife.
6As a professional gun toter with a badge in a southern state (Jimmy Carter was my governor) in my younger years, I’d think those old boys in Alabama would be surprised to find out just how many women not only know about guns but how to use them properly, because 1 in 3 of us will be the victim of sexual assault in our lifetimes….so those men who believe using their spouse as a punching bag is biblically-sanctioned can have fun sleeping with one eye open for the rest of their miserable lives.
I’m all for women getting firearms training, even the squeamish, especially if someone in the house owns a gun, and hope they never have to use it.
But arming teachers in schools thinking that will stop a mass shooting is horribly misguided. When bullets start whizzing past your head, the natural instinct is to run and hide, not become a target by running to get a gun out of a purse locked in the bottom drawer of a desk located at the focal point of the room. “There’s a hero in all of us” sounds good and we believe it because we’re ‘mericans and exceptional, but it’s just as much magical thinking as suggesting a civilian teacher can react like a special ops officer to take out a shooter with an assault rifle.
Not that it couldn’t happen, but it’s highly unlikely, in my opinion.
7@Mike: Mike, he wouldn’t have dared to say that to my grandmother, if he knew what was good for him. She was an excellent shot, and she wouldn’t have minded demonstrating for him now good she was at hitting a moving target, should he have happened to start running.
8If old Harry would donate his coconut to the occasion, Jane and/or any number of the ladies from around here would happily demonstrate the art of shooting a coconut off of a coconut. They’d even allow Harry to choose the distance.
9When I saw those remarks, I thought, “Damn, time travel is real! This ignorant b*s***d from the 18th century just showed up!”
10“Or give birth right in front of you and make you faint and hit your head on a rock.”
Okay, I am in a public place and when I read this line I snorted loudly, snot came out my nose and people stared. If that’s not taking umbrage, I don’t know what is.
11“I can turn you from a rooster to a hen in a single shot!” Dolly Parton
12And, Donna Jo, given the frustrations of dealing with the nimrods in most school administrations and the under-socialized little darlings in their classrooms, too many teachers I know might be tempted to take said firearm out of said purse in said locked drawer at particularly stressful points in their day and proceed to create a smaller class size…..though perhaps a more likely scenario is that an overly-curious, hyperactive little one will find a way to get into that drawer and accidentally shoot him/herself, the teacher trying to get the gun back, or a classmate. Witness today’s story about a 9-year-old killing his 13 year old sister when she didn’t give up the console controller.
But the other thing I wonder about is…..how did Harry get his hair and eyebrows to match his sports coat?
13As a graduate of a Catholic grammar school (almost six decades ago) I keep imagining armed nuns. I particularly remember Sister Dominic (called “Sister Dynamite” but only if you were sure she was out of earshot). She always taught 1st or 2nd Grade — because it was the only way there would be no students taller than her. But she was fierce in protecting her little ones against any real or imagined sleight. She couldn’t have dealt with an assault weapon, but even unarmed she would have been an even match against most lesser threats.
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Then there was Fr. X from HS, who had to be removed because his alcoholism was keeping him from even showing up to class, or keeping on the subject — Latin. We all liked him and didn’t mind having to learn a whole year’s work in one month after the Principal took over the class. Fr. X was no threat, but I doubt if he was the only one with problems with alcohol, which I doubt would have come out during firearms training. with expected results…
In these dark times, I’ll endorse stupidity, too, if it prevents something worse. John Bolton would probably be Secretary of State, but Trump’s afraid of his mustache. Fine. Whatever.
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