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A welcome outbreak of sanity
<p>Instapundit links to this interesting news story: <a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/834022.html">Texas school district lets teachers, staff pack pistols.</a> While this is a step in the right direction, I think it does not go far enough.</p>
<p>I think all teachers, day-care staff, and other adults in loco parentis for groups of children should be <em>required</em> to carry firearms on the job. Maintaining continued proficiency at rapid-reaction tactical shooting should be a condition of their continued employment. Their job is to protect children; if they are not physically, mentally, and morally competent to do that job, they don&#8217;t belong in it.</p>
<p>I doubt any explanation of the threat model is needed. But I will point out that the Israelis require schoolteachers to be armed &#8211; and the <em>only</em> successful terrorist attack in memory on a group of Israeli schoolkids happened after the teachers, on a field trip, allowed themselves to be disarmed at a Jordanian border post.</p>