http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07 ... staff?lite
By Andrew DeMillio, The Associated Press
Interesting article. I'd like to see more of this in Texas. One of the institutionalized biases of journalism creeps in 3 or 4 paragraphs further down the page when the writer says: "In strongly conservative Arkansas, where gun ownership is common and gun laws are permissive....." (emphasis mine). A far more accurate statement would have been: "In strongly conservative Arkansas, where gun ownership is common and gun laws are less restrictive...." The 2nd Amendment doesn't require permission to exercise, and all laws which restrict that exercise are restrictive. Another word for "restricted" is "infringed," which the 2nd Amendment categorically prohibits.CLARKSVILLE, Ark. - As Cheyne Dougan rounded the corner at Clarksville High School, he saw three students on the floor moaning and crying. In a split-second, two more ran out of a nearby classroom.
"He's got a gun," one of them shouted as Dougan approached with his pistol drawn. Inside, he found one student holding another at gunpoint. Dougan aimed and fired three rounds at the gunman.
Preparing for such scenarios has become common for police after a school shooting in Connecticut last December left 20 children and six teachers dead. But Dougan is no policeman. He's the assistant principal of this school in Arkansas, and when classes resume in August, he will walk the halls with a 9 mm handgun.
Journalists don't seem to like that. I privately suspect that is because they want the right to piss you off without facing the kind of consequences that Andrew Jackson would have considered his manly duty.
