The powerful lobby claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut has been the catalyst for the massive interest, but Carol Lear, a chief lawyer for the Utah Office of Education said that the move was a ‘terrible idea.’Arguing that teachers could be overpowered for their guns or misfire causing an accidental shooting, Lear said: ‘It’s a horrible, terrible, no-good, rotten idea.’
Via Daily Mail UK.
I wonder if by now Ms. Lear has been informed that Utah does not have Gun Free Zones in schools and a decent percentage of teachers do carry in school grounds. And if the gun misfires, it means the pointy thingy at the end of the cartridge called bullet, failed to come out of the gun and hitting anything at all.
Thank God Ms. Lear’s blunder did not get picked up by an international media organization and her ignorance plastered across the globe….wait…never mind.
And Ms. Lear’s explanation as to why this works in Israel and Jewish schools in the US?
Not p.c. 🙁
teachers could be overpowered for their guns
yeah, ’cause it’s so much better to just sit there and get shot than try to defend yourself.
“….people facing deadly threats should announce they have a gun and retreat…” after engaging and the neutralization of said threat(s)? YES ! 🙂
Actually I bet a lot of folks in the UK who read that article thought she was exactly right.
“Blimey, he’s got a butter knife!”
Not for long, if the gun banners over there have their way.
I live in Utah, and when I took my CCW class of about twenty people, two of them that I know of were school teachers; there may have been others. And who know how many teachers out there are carrying?
I know why the Left hates being told that Israeli schools have armed guards. It’s because the only thing that the Left hates more than guns is Jews not getting murdered.