A teacher in Oregon is taking on city hall in an attempt to change the laws so she can legally carry a concealed weapon on her campus.
MEDFORD, Ore—English teacher Shirley Katz insists she needs to take her pistol with her to school because she fears her ex-husband could show up and try to harm her. She’s also worried about a Columbine-style attack.But Katz’s district has barred teachers from bringing guns to school, so she is challenging the ban as unlawful, since Oregon is among states that allow people with a permit to carry concealed weapons into public buildings.
“This is primarily about my Second Amendment right and Oregon law and the simple fact that I know it is my right to carry that gun,” said Katz, 44, sitting at the kitchen table of her home outside this city of 74,000.“I have that (concealed weapons) permit. I refuse to let my ex-husband bully me. And I am not going to let the school board bully me, either.”
Read the whole thing here.
I wish her luck—-this one is going to be a tough fight. If we had more teachers carrying conealed weapons we might actually have a better chance of preventing school shootings and other acts of random violence that plague our schools.Â
Plus, the ban needs to be struck down on constitutional grounds anyway…Â it sort of flies in the face of the “shall not be infringed” part of the RKBA.
(H/T Free Republic)
Marcus
Yeah, what part of RKBASNBI do these idiots not understand? Only a government with right to fear its people need fear its people having guns.
Utah allows it…and we don’t have school shootings.
We also allow it in malls.
On another gun control though, good thing they don’t let people under 21 get handguns…unless they’re cops. Not that it matters, they give 20 year old cops AR-15s (you know, evil assault weapons only designed to spray from the hip and indiscriminantly hose down people…people in Wisconsin).
Morons. I wonder what the Brady clowns are going to say about THIS one.
Hmm, here’s their last bit of Wisconsin news < < http://www.bradycampaign.org/legislation/state/news.php#395 >>
Just out of curiosity, how many police-owned “assault weapons” have been put to good use? I can name MANY that have been put to bad use, including a GREAT many stolen that have simply stayed disappeared.