Dave's Verse

I'm not surprised in the least that someone from our crazy legislature is considering this : School resource officers are paid jointly by the local sheriff’s department and the school district. Niceley’s bill would allow schools to pay for background checks and firearms training for teachers that woud allow them to be armed as well. Asked if the guns for the trained teachers would also be part of the taxpayer expense, Niceley laughed. “Well, that’s a minor detail in Tennessee,” he said. “We hoped the teachers would have them already.” The teachers that would be trained would be volunteers, he said, and would likely carry their own firearms to school. This is a ridiculous overreaction to recent events. I understand wanting to keep kids safe. But all this really does is introduce more risk into the classroom. While terrible, events like Newton and Columbine are very rare. So what this policy would really do is subject people to an increased likelihood of an accident from teach...