No One Messes with Texas

The board of the Harrold Independent School District, having received credible threats from Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold from beyond the grave, decided that teachers working in the 150-student school system may now come to class packing heat. Yes. Concealed, loaded guns. With which to shoot students.

My favorite part of the Reuters report — which, by the way, you can read here — is the maniacal, ranting explanation provided by David Thweatt, the district superintendent. Mind you, district superintendents usually have Ph.Ds.

We have a lock-down situation, we have cameras, but the question we had to answer is, “What if somebody gets in? What are we going to do?” It’s just common sense.

I humbly submit, David, that arming teachers against hyper-exaggerated threats and thereby creating paranoia, mistrust, a hostile climate and the potential for really hideous accidents are not what pass in most of the country as common sense.

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