Gunslayer

I just want to say that while this seems like kind of a good idea, it really isn't a good idea at all. Do we really want to introduce more weapons into the school system? Isn't it actually fairly likely that allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons in schools will result in angry students trying to take those guns from the teachers? Or, even worse, that something like that would lead to a slippery slope ending eventually in all people in a school all armed all the time? As an angry armed student, you're less likely to try and shoot somebody who might also be an angry armed student, right?

When I was in high school, I wrote a short story that shared its title with that of this post that was all about Angry Armed Students. I thought it was an interesting idea to think about -- and it was, since students were still allowed to think about things like that in pre-Columbine suburbia -- but never did I imagine that some dimension of the idea might actually happen. These times are Strange indeed.