I think LuvtheU.S. has a point though probably for a different reason than he does. Even in Texas, a large number of teachers, if not the majority, are liberals. Liberals, as we know, project their lack of self-control on those of us who carry guns, and are afraid, knowing how they'd react to challenging situations (especially ideologically challenging situations), that everyone else would react in the same way. They don't trust themselves with guns so they don't think anyone else can be trusted either. They know if they had a gun and some family member started spouting off about liberal vacuity they might go ballistic, because inside every liberal is an authoritarian waiting to get out. With some rare exceptions (I know some members here like to call themselves liberals even though, really, they're not true modern liberals), I don't think lib/progs can be trusted with firearms either.clarionite wrote:LuvtheU.S. wrote:Mr.Jmra I guess you missed my other posts, but there are many reasons why I think that carrying on campus is a bad idea and being sued is just one. I will just chalk it up to a difference of opinion that you believe the districts that don't allow carry do not care as much about human life as you and the districts that do. Sincerely
I'm not sure why you believe teaching at a school is so emotionally daunting that it negates a persons ability to control their base instincts. It's not more stressful than dealing with accidents involving children (EMT's, Nurses, Doctors, Social Workers). And it's not more stressful than going through divorce or the loss of anything else you hold dear in your life. But the state doesn't restrict our rights due to those factors. We're given a great deal of trust. I stress this to my students. We're trusted to do the right thing. We're not automatically doubted and treated like children that can't control themselves. It's up to us to live up to the trust that's placed in us. And for the most part, every day hundreds of thousands of us in Texas do. Millions across the USA do. I have faith in most teachers. If I didn't, I wouldn't want them working around my children. I have more fear that they'll impart a socialist agenda (I know of openly socialist teachers) to my children than that they'll physically injure them.
OTOH, the modern lib/progs are extremely unlikely to have CHLs, so in reality, it's a fear based on a generalized perception rather than a practical reality.