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That Jones guy on Pierce Morgan yesterday was just out and out NUTS folks.
BUT!
After I thought about it for a while I realized there was not much difference between him, and someone who claims the world is only six thousand years old and evolution is a crock!
Both of them are fanatical, narrow minded, have tunnel vision, and have something wrong with the wiring in their heads.
In other words, they’re totally NUTS!
AND!
It seems the madness is spreading, folks!
Now there is a town in Utah that wants to legislate guns in every home and in every classroom at school.
That’s right, there are people out there who want to force you to carry a gun…………………………, and not carry a gun if you want to, but carry a gun whether you want to or NOT!
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By BRADY McCOMBS | Associated Press
But school administrators don’t think arming teachers is wise, and they are not encouraging teachers to participate in Friday’s training.
“The more guns you have in the school, the more dangerous it is,” said Leslie Keisel, superintendent of the North Sanpete School District.
The community is still reeling from the double-murder on New Year’s Eve 2011 of an elderly couple in nearby Mount Pleasant. Sorensen said what used to be a peaceful, quiet town has been sullied by increasing criminal activity.
“If criminals knew they would be fired against, I think it would cause pause,” Johnson said.
That Jones guy on Pierce Morgan yesterday was just out and out NUTS folks.
BUT!
After I thought about it for a while I realized there was not much difference between him, and someone who claims the world is only six thousand years old and evolution is a crock!
Both of them are fanatical, narrow minded, have tunnel vision, and have something wrong with the wiring in their heads.
In other words, they’re totally NUTS!
AND!
It seems the madness is spreading, folks!
Now there is a town in Utah that wants to legislate guns in every home and in every classroom at school.
That’s right, there are people out there who want to force you to carry a gun…………………………, and not carry a gun if you want to, but carry a gun whether you want to or NOT!
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By BRADY McCOMBS | Associated Press
SPRING CITY, Utah (AP) —
Officials in a small Utah town want to make sure every head of household
has a firearm and knows how to use it, and they want to give school
teachers training with guns too.
Spring City Councilman Neil
Sorensen first proposed an ordinance requiring a gun in every household
in the town of 1,000. The rest of the council scoffed at making it a
requirement, but they unanimously agreed to move forward with an
ordinance “recommending” the idea.
The
council also approved funding to offer concealed firearms training
Friday to the 20 teachers and administrators at the local elementary
school.
“It sends a statement that
criminals better think twice,” Sorensen told The Associated Press on
Tuesday. “If a teacher would have had a concealed weapon in Sandy Hook, I
think the death loss would have been fewer. If sane, trained people had
guns, they could have shot back.”
The measure, which will go before the full council in February for
further review, seems to have the support of the council’s five members
and many residents in the farming community about 90 miles south of Salt
Lake City.But school administrators don’t think arming teachers is wise, and they are not encouraging teachers to participate in Friday’s training.
“The more guns you have in the school, the more dangerous it is,” said Leslie Keisel, superintendent of the North Sanpete School District.
Councilman Noel Bertelson said
making guns in every house mandatory was too much, but he agrees the
town would be safer if everyone was armed. With only a part-time police
force, he said, response time is not like it is in a big city.
“If a person is able to take care of themselves for a while, it would probably be a good thing,” Bertelson said.The community is still reeling from the double-murder on New Year’s Eve 2011 of an elderly couple in nearby Mount Pleasant. Sorensen said what used to be a peaceful, quiet town has been sullied by increasing criminal activity.
Thefts of metal for scrap and other property also have become a problem, Councilman Boyd Mickel said.
“We are kind of tired of people breaking in and taking stuff,” said
Mickel, explaining why he voted to urge every house to have a gun.
Timm Thompson, a coal miner and father of four girls who lives in Spring City, backs the council’s measure.
“People think small towns are a good place to live,” Thompson said. “But there is more crime and drugs than you can imagine.”
Thompson, who owns 78 guns he
keeps locked in a safe, doesn’t want teachers to act as police officers.
He said some kids are “hooligans” and could overpower teachers for the
guns.
Sisters Katy Harmer and Caroline
Lott, however, say arming teachers would make them feel better about
sending their children to the Spring City Elementary School. The
co-owners of the town’s coffee shop, Das Coffee, said most Spring City
residents keep guns for hunting, leaving only a handful without weapons.
Angela Johnson, owner of the Sinclair gas station, said she doesn’t like guns but backs the council’s proposal.“If criminals knew they would be fired against, I think it would cause pause,” Johnson said.
Because the Spring City Council
is stopping short of a law requiring gun ownership, elected officials
won’t run afoul of state law, former Utah Attorney General Mark
Shurtleff told KSL.com.
Shurtleff said that when the
Washington County town of Virgin enacted a local law in 2000 requiring
households to keep guns, he warned them against trying to enforce the measure.
Spring City leaders say they got
the idea from a city in Georgia that passed a similar law. In 1982,
Kennesaw, Ga., made headlines by requiring heads of households to own a
gun and ammunition. On its website, Kennesaw boasts that its burglary
rate declined after the law took effect.
Teachers at Spring City
Elementary School won’t be required to attend Friday’s concealed weapons
training, but can if they wish, Principal Mark Thomas said.
“I don’t think there is anything wrong about being educated how to use a gun,” Thomas said.
But Thomas doesn’t believe having
more armed teachers would necessarily prevent or mitigate the damage in
mass shootings. Utah law allows teachers to have concealed weapon in
classrooms, but the district doesn’t advocate for that, Thomas said.
“By bringing weapons into school,
are we creating more problems than we are solving?” he asked. “It could
create a new problem. We don’t want to deal with that problem.”
The proposed ordinance will be discussed at the Feb. 7 City Council meeting. A public hearing will be held three weeks later.
http://news.yahoo.com/utah-town-makes-arming-households-top-priority-003957243.html
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