GOP Rep Suggests Teachers Should Be Armed With Assault Rifles

[Ichingcarpenter]

A Republican Congressman suggested that had the teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary been armed with assault rifles, they could have prevented Friday’s massacre and saved lives.

Appearing on a special Fox News Sunday dedicated to the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that an armed teacher or principal could have taken the killer’s “head off before he can kill those precious kids”:

GOHMERT
: Having been a judge and reviewed photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have these defensive wounds, gun shots through their arms and hands as they try to protect themselves, and, hearing the heroic stories of the principal, lunging, trying to protect, Chris, I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids. [...]
Watch it: at link

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/16/1342281/gop-rep-suggests-teachers-should-be-armed-with-assault-rifles/


The stupid burns as does my disgust

[Brickbat]

1. He trusts a union thug with a gun?

Interesting.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Leave it to Gohmert...

He is, bar none, the DUMBEST member of congress. And, he relishes that fact. I hope he dies before I do, so I can piss and crap on his grave. He's a piece-of-shit of the highest order.

[COLGATE4]

18. He gives just plain old dumbfuckery

a bad name. Vile, nasty and as bright as a box of hammers. But his 'constituents' love him. Makes you wonder who the assholes who keep sending him back to Congress term after term must be like.

[coalition_unwilling]

3. Kick for more exposure. Thanks for posting - n/t

[Angry Dragon]

4. Police at every classroom door

makes as much sense

[SummerSnow]

15. Or...

Build bullet proof doors on each classroom door that auto lock when there is these kind of threats looming.Also do it to the windows.May have to make classrooms like 'panic rooms '.Just saying.

[BeyondGeography]

5. I'm thinking that would attract a new kind of person to the teaching profession

[Igel]

22. The coteacher where I student taught was ex-military.

Fresh out of the service in Iraq he went into an ACP and was doing his internship year.

You want to talk classroom management skills?

He knew his subject. Cold.

He had street cred--he'd survived for a couple of rotations in S. Afghanistan, so the kids could look up to him with no problem. And he had interesting stories to tell. (Probably wouldn't have worked out quite so good in a school with a large Muslim population.)

And now, the ability to quickly break down, clean, and reassemble an M-4 under stressful conditions ... He's got something else to add to his resume!

[DanTex]

6. I wonder what screen name he uses to post in the gungeon...

[jsr]

7. This is what a good teacher should look like, according to the NRA:

[RomneyLies]

8. Gohmert is the biggest idiot in the Congress. n/t

[Lizzie Poppet]

9. Wow...that's just industrial-strength stupid.

The kind of idiot that sometimes manages to get themselves elected to public office never ceases to amaze me...

[JoePhilly]

10. Why stop there ... arm the 6 and 7 year olds too.

[BeyondGeography]

14. The problem with that is they're underaged

Either no school until your 18th birthday or lift the age requirement for firearms.

[JoePhilly]

19. Drop the age requirement ... then maybe we could arm fetuses.

[Jennicut]

11. I work with kids as a sub.

You cannot logically have a gun around children that age. The children that died were first graders. They may reach for the gun, they hang on you. They easily distract you. A teacher has way too much to do and cannot worry about whipping out a gun at the last moment. Against someone that may have body armor. Please. People that suggest this have obviously never worked in classrooms with little kids.

[ElbarDee]

12. "Israel does it."

[gag]



(do I need to put sarcasm here? Really?)

[etherealtruth]

13. The stupid, it burns

[charmay]

16. Where should they keep these assault rifles?

On their desks or strapped to their backs? Stupid, stupid stupid!!!

[Skidmore]

17. Why did I know it was Gohmert before I clicked to enter the thread?

[TwilightGardener]

20. More guns will solve gun violence. And kindergarteners with

kevlar helmets and bulletproof vests. What a wonderful world it will be.

[jberryhill]

21. Why are guns banned in the Capitol, Louis?