And While We’re On the Topic of Underpaid Teachers ….
… a state senator running against Lindsey Graham says that teachers should be allowed to carry machine guns in the classroom.
Oh my gosh, finally! Someone who makes Lindsey Graham look good.
South Carolina state Sen. Lee Bright (R), who is challenging Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in the GOP primary, said on Friday that school teachers should be able to carry machine guns to protect students from gun violence.
Just what this country needs – more machine guns in classrooms.
Funny how teachers are viewed by the Republicans: criticized one minute as “union thugs” and urged to carry fully automatic weapons the next. But then, Republicans get elected by spreading irrational fear throughout the electorate rather than presenting a coherent vision of the future, so it’s hardly surprising
1Obviously has not been in a classroom since 5th grade
2no larry, this (R) graduated from the 5th grade
3RepubAnon, right on! Total nitwittery!
4What a misnomer for a name.
5Somewhere at the bottom of all this mess is an existentialist anxiety among white men in a society which is evolving where they are not. Consider Brit Hume’s tepid defense of Chris Christie: “Well, I would have to say that in this sort of feminized atmosphere in which we exist today, guys who are masculine and muscular like that in their private conduct, kind of old fashion tough guys, run some risk.”
It’s like the Right is populated solely with Ron Burgundy clones.
Consider the poor old white man. We grew up in a society where our dads were kings. They lived through Depression, then went and kicked Hitler’s and Tojo’s asses. Then they came home, built and drove cars, and invented marketing and NASA. So what if they drank to excess and took their women for granted? They had EARNED that.
Well, zeitgeist is a kaleidoscope. Society has moved on. The world doesn’t kowtow to the domineering white male because, ya know… women are people, too. And non-whites.
And so we are left with men who never heard of Rudyard Kipling lamenting the white man’s burden. And resenting “the blame of those ye better, the hate of those ye guard.”
But what none of them realize is it’s the loss of men to act not like men, but like overgrown children, with no one to tell them “no.” And so they hide behind things which keep them on top, or make them more “manly:” sexist churches; guns; states rights; beer bellies and white hoods.
Because, in the end, something is going to happen. The Rapture. A nuclear war. Global something. A Communist dirty trick. And in America, the armed white man is going to retake his rightful place of domination, guaranteed by God and the Original Constitution, before those liberals started messing with it.
So Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.
6Makes sense to me. Now the deranged student doesn’t have to worry about getting the Bushmaster past school security, it will be right there waiting for him in the classroom. Perhaps Sen. Bright’s last name should be changed to ‘Idiot’. That seems to fit him better.
7@JaneE I’m betting his middle name is “Notsovery” and it’s probably a family name – and affliction, come to think of it!
8How does he think the teacher can teach and still hold the gun and keep it away from the students? And who will pay for the guns? Teachers aren’t paid enough anyway, and to expect them to also buy a gun. Maybe teachers who already own guns should visit him and ask him these questions.
9DaChipster … you are magnificent in your speeches!
10Let’s see … a normal hour in a freshman high school class, taught by a machine gun toting teacher in front of a bunch of hormonal, prankish teenagers. He’s up at the blackboard trying to write, but he’s already paranoid about violence. He does’t dare lay his weapon down for fear that one of his youthful students might harbor violent tendencies and pick up the firearm while his back is turned. Then a wise guy in the back of the room blows up a paper bag and pops it …
11Seems to me that State Senator Bright isn’t too bright.
12I wonder when and which one of these bozos will finally just suggest that we get rid of real teachers and hire cops in their place. No one will be able to complain anymore that the teachers are underpaid because they’ll be on cop salaries and they also can’t complain that the teachers aren’t armed enough. And, in just a few short years we’ll have the least educated people among the third world; who will then be able to work for pennies a day for the American billionaires.
13Absolutely, UmptyDump! What could possibly go wrong?
14I’ll crawl out on the crazy limb and say after thinking it over it can never be made to work.
A machine gun, for the purposes of this rant, is a weapon which fires more than one bullet with just one pull on the trigger.
First, when enlisted military members patrol with their battle rifles they do should so in a pairs with one barrel pointed left and one pointed right. Armed Military patrols of which I am aware except in the most landlocked lower 48 states are always in at least pairs. Patrols in known hostile areas are mounted in the dozens. A single person with a true machine gun is near useless as an only, last, line of defense.
Police officers who patrol on foot or bike alone ARE NOT armed with true machine guns, nor are they so armed even when traveling in pairs. Occasionally if the department sees fit officers who have qualified on a course carry a semi-automatic rifle locked in the trunk of their patrol car. I do not know of a single PD in the US that allows true machine guns to be carried routinely.
I would guestimate that maybe some Federal agencies, because of how heavily armed their clientele can be, US Marshals, DEA, FBI, etc may sometimes carry machine guns.
This guy has no sense of reality, of proportion, of appropriate response to real threats.
At some point all us guys had to quit playing soldier out in the backyard and grow up. This guy too. And PDQ.
Geesh!
15Dimwits like Mr. Notsovery Bright (thanks Aggieland liz) cannot imagine a problem that cannot be solved with guns. Teachers have been asked to feed, clothe, nurse, parent and when they have time, to teach their students.
16Asking them to become armed guards crosses the line.
Why is it so many of these ideas come out of South Carolina?
17“Maybe teachers who already own guns should visit him and ask him these questions.” Susie @9
I love it!!
18With all the shootings at schools lately, it’s gonna come down to parents deciding to have their kids homeschooled just to keep them alive. Just consider that possibility!
19Good grief. And good grief to anyone who thinks that it’s so great that Chris Christie is tough and masculine. I’m going to go take a nap.
20In my 30 years of teaching, I had many situations where I was glad I was not armed. Many.
21For anyone who can just look at Christie and think muscular, I suggest you be checked out.
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