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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to put guns in our teachers’ hands.<\/p>\n

He thinks a well-armed teacher could have stopped the shooter from slaughtering those 10 victims in Santa Fe, Texas, the other day.<\/p>\n

Sure thing, Mr. Patrick. Or … a heat-packing educator could have missed the shooter and wounded — or killed!<\/em> — other students or fellow educators.<\/p>\n

Patrick told ABC News’s “This Week”<\/a> that teachers “are part of that well-run militia” spelled out in the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

Sigh …<\/em><\/p>\n

In truth, the amendment refers to a “well-regulated militia.” My own view is that teachers are tasked exclusively to educate children; they are not<\/em> asked to provide armed response to violence in the classroom or in the halls, or the cafeteria or the gymnasium or the school yard.<\/p>\n

This notion of arming teachers keeps getting revived every time a gunman opens fire in our public schools. There has been so much of it these days we have become numb — or so it seems — to the news that keeps erupting.<\/p>\n

Patrick did say something that rings true while he was on TV this morning: \u201cWe have devalued life, whether it\u2019s through abortion, whether it\u2019s the breakup of families, through violent movies, and particularly violent video games which now outsell movies and music.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, this is a societal issue that needs careful examination. However, none of that will be solved merely by putting more guns<\/em> into our public schools.<\/p>\n\n

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to put guns in our teachers’ hands. He thinks a well-armed teacher could have stopped the shooter from slaughtering those 10 victims in Santa Fe, Texas, the other day. Sure thing, Mr. Patrick. Or … a heat-packing educator could have missed the shooter and wounded — or killed! — … Continue reading ‘Our teachers are part of that well-run militia’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7769,1255,2037,7768,4169,5043],"class_list":["post-29862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-arming-teachers","tag-dan-patrick","tag-gun-violence","tag-santa-fe-shooting","tag-second-amendment","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29863,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29862\/revisions\/29863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}