bluebyu wrote on 12/13/12 at 8:48am:

If you get 2-3 rounds per "squeeze"....you are going to prison.

formercrewguy wrote on 12/13/12 at 9:33am:


Or to the mall apparently .....

They are going to be coming out of the woodworks is probably and understatement, did you see the look on Obama's face when he said we need to do something about this, stand by because I feel it is going to get real nasty real soon, on getting all guns out of the hands of folks.  I think it is going to be more than just assult guns, it is going to include hand guns semi-auto with large add on clips with 30 rounds, like used today...JMOO..

I support GUN CONTROL!

Blasticus wrote on 12/17/12 at 7:56am:



You give them that and thats all the leg they'll need.  Sad but true.

Have you ever saw our government stop "anything"?

About only wanting to eliminate assault rifles.
Why shouldn't a law abiding citizen be able to own one. If for no other reason then that they want to. If they can pass the background check who is to say they shouldn't have one. If a person wants to kill people they will regardless if they have a assault rifle or any other gun for that matter.

One report today said the guy in Conn. never used anything but the pistols.  I don't know cause there are to many stories out there.

Tim McVeigh didn't use a gun and kill 130 something including 18 or 19 kids.  It isn't the guns!!!!!!

Former crew guy, you are absolutely right!!! Crazy thing though, with Obummers re-elction and the timing of this sensless massacre, watch out for the U N resolution for gun control. The combined efforts of our room temperature IQ politicians and the Third World delegates and our Questionable motives/birthright leader..... our 2nd ammendment rights are at serious risk. We are heading into a huge fight. Renew your NRA membership. All this mayhem has taken place because of mentally ill/unstable individuals.... deal with the mental illness issues/identification and care before you start playing with and restricting our Consitutional rights!!

The one ACE in the hole we have is the second amendment,  The UN cannot supersede our constitution. Thats is why it is all important to keep the second amendment standing

another great idea by TEXAS,,, I firmly agree that they should be allowed, as long as they have proper training and must meet a minimum time spent in shooting ranges regularly,,,Love the last paragragh, sums it up pretty good,
crazy shooters never go to gun ranges to kill mass people do they...



Lawmakers and educators in Texas say the way to guard against school shootings like last Friday's at a Connecticut elementary school is to make sure teachers can shoot back.

While the rampage that left 20 young children and six adults dead in a small Northeastern community has sparked a national debate on gun control, assault weapons and a culture of violence, David Thweatt, superintendent of the 103-student Harrold Independent School District in Wilbarger County, said his teachers are armed and ready to protect their young charges.


"As educators, we don’t have to be police officers and learn about Miranda Rights and related procedures. We just have to be accurate.”
- David Thweatt, superintendent of Harrold Independent School District in Texas


“We give our ‘Guardians’ training in addition to the regular Texas conceal-and-carry training,” Thweatt, whose school is about three hours northwest of Dallas, told FoxNews.com.  “It mainly entails improving accuracy…You know, as educators, we don’t have to be police officers and learn about Miranda Rights and related procedures. We just have to be accurate.”

Thweatt is the architect of “The Guardian Plan,” a blueprint for arming school staff, including teachers, that may be catching on, at least in the Lone Star state. Teachers there are allowed to have weapons in the classroom, as Thweatt's faculty members do, but State Attorney General Greg Abbott suggested Monday that lawmakers may consider ways to encourage the practice statewide.

"Bearing arms whether by teachers and guards and things like that will be all a part of more comprehensive policy issues for the legislature to take up in the coming weeks," Abbott said. "And you can be assured in the aftermath of what happened in Connecticut that these legislators care dearly about the lives of students at their schools and they will evaluate all possible measures that are necessary to protect those lives," he said.

More momentum for the idea is evidenced by Austin gun shop dealer Crocket Keller, who announced his store will now extend the same discount on firearm purchases to teachers as it does to veterans.

Thweatt said there have been no incidents since October 2007, when his district adopted the plan giving an unspecified number of teachers and school staff -- dubbed "Guardians" -- authority to carry concealed weapons on school premises. Participating staff are anonymous and known only to Thweatt and the school board, which must approve each application for an employee to become a Guardian. They receive a small stipend annually.

“We’re 18 miles and 30 minutes from the nearest police station," Thweatt said. "So we are our first responders. If something happened here, we would have to protect our children. You know, police officers are true, everyday heroes in my book, but one of them once told me something very revealing. He said, ‘Ninety-five percent of the time, we get to the scene late.’ I can’t afford to let that happen.”

Each Guardian must obtain a Texas conceal-and-carry permit, and must lock-and-load their weapons with “frangible” bullets that break apart when colliding with a target. “They go through people,” assured Thweatt.

“They’re very similar to what the air marshals use. The bullets are glued together with polymers, and we insist upon them because we don’t want the bullet to ricochet off a wall after it’s fired and hit a child.”

Thweatt says parents have embraced The Guardian Plan, a fact evidenced by the transfer rate into his school district. “We’re a high-transfer district,” he told FoxNews.com, “which means only 18 percent of students come to the school because they live in the district. The rest transfer in or choose to come here from other districts.”

There’s a simple thread, Thweatt says, that binds together many of the mass shootings that have recently rocked the U.S.:  They happened in places where the shooter knew there was going to be little resistance.

“These shooters, even though they are evil and have mental problems, they inevitably know where they are going,” explained Thweatt. “They are going where they won’t get any resistance. Let’s put it this way, would you put a sign in front of your house that says, ‘I am against guns. You will find no resistance here?’ That would be a stupid thing to do. You’re going to invite people who like to take advantage of helpless individuals.

“Would my policy have stopped this?” Thweatt asked. “Nobody knows for sure or for 100 percent, but what we do know is that active shooters go where there is no one there to resist. The Guardian Plan addresses that fact.”