Texan School Where Teachers Carry Guns

In most of America, people do not worry about being armed around children.  The movement to stigmatize firearms in school only took off in the middle 90's and has always been about indoctrination rather than safety.  From the Daily Mail in the UK:

In the tiny Texas town of Harrold, children and their parents do not give much thought to their safety at the community's only school, because they know that some of the teachers are carrying concealed weapons.

In the remote town, the nearest law enforcement office is 30 minutes away and the residents know each other and trust each other, so the school board made the momentous decision to allow teachers to arm themselves at their work around children.

Desperate to avoid the deadly consequences of their own school shooting incident, Harrold Independent School District has utlized armed teachers since 2007 and in the light of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre became convinced it was the correct decision.

'Virginia Tech was a wake up call. We evisioned that happening at our school, we envisioned having no protection,' said Harrold Schools Superintendant David Thweatt to CNN.

'Casualties mount up very quickly and the only thing as we know that has stopped any of the shooters in any of the schools has been the first responders showing up.'

Texas law bans guns in schools unless the school has given written authorization. Arizona and six other states have similar laws with exceptions for people who have licenses to carry concealed weapons.

Harrold's school board voted unanimously in 2007 to allow employees to carry weapons. After obtaining a state concealed-weapons permit, each employee who wants to carry a weapon must be approved by the board based on his or her personality and reaction to a crisis, Thweatt said.

More Here at The Daily Mail