Texas School System Violates State Law
Gun Loons want to arm teachers:
The 110-student district, 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth near Wichita Falls, made international news last week with a new policy that allows teachers to carry handguns if they have a state permit and permission from the district. The move appears to be unprecedented.
Not so fast:
“You cannot bring a gun onto school property whether you’re staff, a teacher or administrator regardless of whether you have a conceal-carry license,” said Clint Bond, a spokesman for the Fort Worth district. “The only people who are authorized to carry weapons on our campuses, in school district facilities, are police.”
Jadegold,
Once again you only post part of the law.
Here is the applicable law
§ 46.03. PLACES WEAPONS PROHIBITED.
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly possesses or goes with a firearm, illegal knife, club, or prohibited weapon listed in Section 46.05(a):
(1) on the physical premises of a school or educational institution, any grounds or building on which an activity sponsored by a school or educational institution is being conducted, or a passenger transportation vehicle of a school or educational institution, whether the school or educational institution is public or private, unless pursuant to written regulations or written authorization of the institution;
Notice that each district is allowed to decide whether or not concealed carry is allowed.
In all the times that the gun fearing banners have cried “blood in the streets”, “wild west shootouts”, etc, Can you show an actual increase in the crime stats? Or is it just more hot air?
Comment by Bob S. — August 24, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
You omit the part that reads: “If a board of trustees authorizes a person employed as security personnel to carry a weapon, the person must be a commissioned peace officer.”
Comment by Administrator — August 24, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
I don’t omit it because it is not germane. The people authorized to carry concealed are not being employed as security personnel. All the school district has done is all those employed as — wait for it– teachers to carry their legally authorized concealed weapons on campus. As a condition of that authorization, the teachers have had additional training but that does not make them security guards.
Nice try but it really isn’t applicable.
Comment by Bob S. — August 24, 2008 @ 7:49 pm
And you omit the fact that none of the teachers are being hired as “security personnel”, thus negating the part that refers to them being required to be commissioned peace officers.
Comment by J — August 24, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
I don’t omit it because it is not germane.
It’s not germane if you can’t read English; otherwise, it’s quite clear–you need to be a commissioned peace officer.
Comment by Administrator — August 25, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Jadegold,
It is not us that is having problem with the English language. In this case the teachers are not being employed, legal definition of the word, as security guards, sorry but it is that simple. They are being employed as teachers. Nothing more, nothing less.
Should teachers be allowed to carry pepper spray, tasers or mace?
This is no different. A teacher carrying mace isn’t a security guard even though security guards carry mace. Neither is a teacher carrying a concealed weapon a security guard, they are not receiving any additional money.
Comment by Bob S. — August 25, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
Jadegold,
Cat got your tongue or are you not willing to admit you are wrong?
Comment by Bob S. — August 28, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
Also, you say “gun loons want to arm teachers.” You’re dead wrong. We aren’t arming anyone. All this does is allows teachers who are already licensed to carry by the State of Texas to carry on the job, with the approval of the school board.
NO ONE is being armed. They’re just getting rid of what was a “gun-free zone.” You know, the ones that work so well at preventing school shootings….
Comment by mike w — September 3, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
Jadegold,
School has been in session for 12 days at Harrold ISD. Any word on shoot outs in the hallways?
Teachers loosing control of their firearms?
Students disarming teachers?
Blood in the hallways because some teacher didn’t like a student talking back?
Answer to all of the questions, is no.
Care to comment on the lack of shootings in the district?
Comment by Bob S. — September 11, 2008 @ 11:47 am