DU: Guns in Schools 'TITs sighting'.

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Xipe Totec  (1000+ posts)       Fri Aug-15-08 05:00 PM
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Texas school district to let teachers carry guns 
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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.


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of course,

slackmaster  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-15-08 05:02 PM
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1. I think that's two threads in LBN, three in GD, and one in the Gungeon on this story
 How many do we need?

I don't know...how many do you want?

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-15-08 05:04 PM
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3. My Great-Grandmother's sister carried a rifle to school.
 A Winchester, lever-action .22 rifle with an octagonal barrel.

She taught in a one-room school in N Texas and actually had to use the thing a few times.

Ah, TiTs...always good for a story.

[Texacon]

We all carried guns to school when I was growing up.  There were in the rifle rack, proudly displayed.  They were for hunting after school.

KC

[Chris_]

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-15-08 05:04 PM
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3. My Great-Grandmother's sister carried a rifle to school.
 A Winchester, lever-action .22 rifle with an octagonal barrel.

She taught in a one-room school in N Texas and actually had to use the thing a few times.

Uh, TiTTY?  I thought that was an "...official Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time..."

[franksolich]

Okay, given that the lying titty primitive is the biggest consumer of elastic on Skins's island:

(a) the lying titty primitive is circa 58 years old, meaning his great-grandmother's sister would have been born, one reasonably assumes, circa 1870-1890.  That's just a guess, but I'm guessing it's a pretty good guess.

Did they have Winchester lever-action .22 rifles with an octagonal barrel back then, near the end of the 19th century?

And then one wonders why the lying titty primitive would have such a clear-cut idea what it was, rather than just simply "a rifle."

I have a photograph of a maternal ancestor, dated 1916, in which he is astride the biggest motorcycle I'm aware of.  But I never paid much attention to it; I assumed it was a Honda or Harley-Davison or something.

It took a long time, but eventually it was identified as a "Chief," or somesuch.  A really big motorcycle.

I'll bet even if the lying titty primitive had an ancient photograph of his great-grandmother's sister sitting on a chair in front of a sod schoolhouse, a rifle across her bosom, the lying titty primitive wouldn't know what it was.

[Carl]

Okay, given that the lying titty primitive is the biggest consumer of elastic on Skins's island:

(a) the lying titty primitive is circa 58 years old, meaning his great-grandmother's sister would have been born, one reasonably assumes, circa 1870-1890.  That's just a guess, but I'm guessing it's a pretty good guess.

Did they have Winchester lever-action .22 rifles with an octagonal barrel back then, near the end of the 19th century?

And then one wonders why the lying titty primitive would have such a clear-cut idea what it was, rather than just simply "a rifle."

I have a photograph of a maternal ancestor, dated 1916, in which he is astride the biggest motorcycle I'm aware of.  But I never paid much attention to it; I assumed it was a Honda or Harley-Davison or something.

It took a long time, but eventually it was identified as a "Chief," or somesuch.  A really big motorcycle.

I'll bet even if the lying titty primitive had an ancient photograph of his great-grandmother's sister sitting on a chair in front of a sod schoolhouse, a rifle across her bosom, the lying titty primitive wouldn't know what it was.

I did a google search wondering the same and yes they did have one so it is a possibility.

On edit I should also have added that it would have been about useless except for shooting a rat or other varmit that entered the class room.
He is trying to give the impression it was for protection of the students but if anyone really wanted to do that against dangerous predators animal or human they would pick something other then a .22.

[thundley4]

We all carried guns to school when I was growing up.  There were in the rifle rack, proudly displayed.  They were for hunting after school.

KC

They offered  a hunter/gun safety course during my junior and senior years in high school. Some students carried their shotguns on the bus.

Now kids  get in trouble for a butter knife left in their car.

[jinxmchue]

Okay, given that the lying titty primitive is the biggest consumer of elastic on Skins's island:

(a) the lying titty primitive is circa 58 years old, meaning his great-grandmother's sister would have been born, one reasonably assumes, circa 1870-1890.  That's just a guess, but I'm guessing it's a pretty good guess.

Did they have Winchester lever-action .22 rifles with an octagonal barrel back then, near the end of the 19th century?

And then one wonders why the lying titty primitive would have such a clear-cut idea what it was, rather than just simply "a rifle."

I have a photograph of a maternal ancestor, dated 1916, in which he is astride the biggest motorcycle I'm aware of.  But I never paid much attention to it; I assumed it was a Honda or Harley-Davison or something.

It took a long time, but eventually it was identified as a "Chief," or somesuch.  A really big motorcycle.

I'll bet even if the lying titty primitive had an ancient photograph of his great-grandmother's sister sitting on a chair in front of a sod schoolhouse, a rifle across her bosom, the lying titty primitive wouldn't know what it was.

Feh.  All you need to do to tell if TiT is lying is ask, "Is he posting/talking?"

[Airwolf]

I find it hard to believe that Tit even had a great grandmother or any other person that would lay claim to him.