Lenticular_J

Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp. Damn posting rules, now I'm on to: Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana.

My brother's birthday, though it was a bit of a combo celebration for mine and his, since I have orientation my birthday (sucks inorite?). My sister and brother-in-law got me a pimpin' fedora, and my brother got me an amazing Hohner Harmonica set and tip book.

And those guidelines would be, for some reason, ignored if a gun is involved? (Added something to it, most teachers could handle a student trying to get into a fistfight without pulling out a weapon)

I get a lot of my jeans at Old Navy. Kohl's might be good, too, although I only get dress clothes there. Also, I don't get people who wear tight clothes. I just wear fitting clothes, with a belt. Hate tight clothes and baggy ones.

You should love it. To the DS connections, supposedly it will connect even with GameCube games on memory cards, updating them for this. So certainly WW will be connectable somehow. EDIT: Ratchet, there have been two games in the entire series (not counting the ones in Japan). :?

I hope that's a joke. Working at a place like that is just asking to go crazy.

There are only thousands of schools in America I believe, and there's one school shooting where at least one person is killed per month of the school year. There's at least one threat of a shooting/bombing to a school per day, although obviously most aren't followed up on, and many are "jokes" like things you'd find on 4Chan. On feeling uncomfortable, I would only feel uncomfortable with a teacher who I knew was unstable or unqualified to be trained for it. Teachers have kept unloaded rifles (many whose trigger mechanisms were taken apart as well) in classrooms all my life. I doubt the students would be notified which teachers are doing the program; that's idiotic. Plus, concealed weapon argument. Also, I could ask the principle to take away the right of any teacher to have a gun in the classroom. He/She may not allow it with only me asking, but a petition gets almost anyone's attention. Tazers kill. And they hurt. I'd much prefer a quick death via bullet to the head than being tazed to death. All the same, like Barihawk, I doubt many teachers would even sign up for it. It's an optional program, and even in the most gun-friendly county in the nation, no more than a few teachers at a school would sign up or even be qualified for it. EDIT: Fixed the quote.

OOC: Okay, that works for me. I thought it would be better being a big city and all, but this works out for the best since we're going to Mexico. Also, the freeze ray sort of stops time - you know what I mean if you've seen the Dr. Horrible webisodes. Raw Wonderflonium has an incredibly low temperature, though. "That sounds good to me," Horrible said, firing just high enough that the bullets would fly harmlessly into the near jungle canopy. "You need pilot's training for a degree in Horribleness, so I may be able to co-pilot. Plus, the scientist I was talking to at the compound told me of ways to use Wonderflonium for the opposite effect of the freeze ray." "You mean make us go faster?" Asked Aquarius. "Or blow us all up." The group rode the rest of the way in silence. The airport was a ways away from the town, and they encountered no resistance when they passed through the gate. Wisp stopped the vehicle, and everyone but Horrible and Hotsaucia went to examine a hangar for any planes or helicopters large enough to carry them all to safety. Horrible and Hotsaucia were making smalltalk when bullets rained onto them from the jungle. Hit in the shoulder, Horrible rotated the turret and fired back. A young boy fell out of a tree high in the jungle canopy. The rifle was larger than him. Horrible was about to leap out of the seat when Hotsaucia held him down. "Could be a trap." He then burnt much of that section of jungle. Horrible pulled a a bandage and a knife out of his coat and dug out the bullet, grimacing in pain. He then wrapped the shoulder with gauze as tight as he and Hotsaucia could muster, trying to stem the bleeding. The others yelled for them to reverse the tank, and a massive Boeing passenger jet began to taxi out of the hangar. Horrible and Hotsaucia were dumbfounded, but eventually they all loaded their gear and what food they could find in the control tower into the massive airliner. Just as they were about to start the taxi down the runway, Horrible realized they'd forgotten Plow. He rushed back down to the tank, finding the bundle of sacks and rope holding him down. Plow was dead. He'd swallowed some sort of poison, probably cyanide. Rummaging in his pockets, Horrible found some likely-looking papers and a lighter. The man deserves a burial. Horrible thought, and went to the tank's gas tank. He then lit it on fire and ran for the airplane. OOC: Think that's good enough for South America?

We got tired of people unableable to spell "discussion" participating in them. (Yes, irony.)

"Well, as you can see, raw Wonderflonium can create very sturdy ice," Horrible said. "Perhaps this there's a swift current in the Atlantic?"

World of Warcraft is so confusing. I understand the Horde-Alliance differences, but what's a durid? Someone kept going on about that in a public place (pronounced DERR-IDD).

If the two of you don't share a room, trap him in his while he sleeps with plastic wrap. :

Barihawk's a teacher, and, assuming from his location, in my town. I'd hope he knew more about our education system then us :lol:

I agree whole-heartedly. Even though they aren't always the locations of shootings, it's obvious that's where they bring weapons in the first place.

Haha, wow.

Because it's easy; conveinient. I'm not even saying actually shooting the gun, but threatening a student with it is just as wrong in my eyes. A teacher could say "The student was threatening me and I felt it necessary to use my gun to calm him or her down." Teacher's word against student's. Whose are your going to take? All your other rebuttle please see my part about schools being "sanctuary". It's not that I don't want a person having a gun, rather the fact that guns in a classroom is absolutely ridiculous. It's a place of learning, not a place of fear. It would be just as easy for a teacher to pick up a stool and threaten you with it the next time you're at school (Oh, wait, you're out of school. Nevermind that.). But they don't. As I was talking to...Lionhart? (I think, sorry :?) The world is ruled by fear of what has or could happen anyways. The security guards and metal detectors are a result of fear. This is just more fear.

I do believe they should do something if they whine enough to bug me, but people will complain about anything, and a lot of it is good-naturedly enough. Plus we really can't do that. The military is on the government's side. Unless something happens where the entire government starts to [bleep] up the country, anyone who tries to storm the white house will be shot on the spot. And we can't impeach. I believe we can ask our Congressman to start up an impeachment, but unless the President did something, nothing'll come from it. We can't storm the castle and make King John sign the Magna Carta anymore.

I can understand why you would want a conceal and carry in public locations, but to have any type of gun in a classroom is honestly where I draw the line. The only guns should be at the entrance where a trained security guard or policeman is. Most of those trained security guards and policemen only visit a school at times when something is more probable to happen, while they do nothing, even leaving during the rest of the day. It's how a kid got stabbed last year. My teacher stopped it with his hands. It would be a trained teacher obviously, and as has been said, it would be concealed. Plus, many school policemen here don't even carry anything aside from a police baton. That won't stop a gunman (gunstudent?) 40 feet down the hall. Teachers have given their lives at shootings like Columbine trying to protect their students with their bodies, now they can fight back instead of simply be a shield. Do you honestly think an adult would do that? More specifically, do you think the school board would allow a teacher that has been known to have a temper carry the weapon? Teachers are adults, and for the most part, in their thirties to fifties. They've lived a lot longer than the teenager bringing a knife to school to stab someone, they do have self-control. They can think about it, I can think about dancing on a cloud. Does that mean I'm going to do it? Well, in my case yes, but in the teacher's case, no. They aren't wildcard students that don't give a [bleep] about their life. They're teachers. Pretty sure they aren't doing this for the amazing pay. I'm sure they'd be fired on the spot if they even pulled out their weapon without a reason, if they weren't arrested. Why is that? Concealed weapon, they won't be able to see it. There's a gun at the entrance if there's a security guard with one, and that certainly won't stop their learning. I dunno about you, but I believe that teachers are (for the most part) smarter and have a helluva lot more self-control than me. I'd feel safer if my teacher was trained to shoot and had a gun. Here's a question. When your teachers "flipped" on you, did they take a chair and beat you with it? Did they threaten to? Because they could have done that easily. If they didn't, why would they pull out a gun and shoot a child?

We ain't gonna go to the White House and kick the President out. It's impeachment. If they tried to invade the White House, they'd be shot.

I remember that right before I paid for the last upgrade of my house, I discovered the codes you could give to Nook for like 10,000 bells every time, 3 times an hour. Boy oh boy, I had fun with that.

"Did you get any samples out of the lab?" Horrible asked Plow. "Yes..." Plow mumbled. He was losing consciousness. And they could hear the rumble of some sort of heavy vehicle coming up the road. They had to choose what to do. OOC: I don't wanna choose.

Haha, Jon Stewart's [bleep]ing hilarious.

Kriegs, I think you would enjoy the games that go on between Tech and UT, Tech and A&M, or UT and A&M. You don't even have to like either team, they're great games.

You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC. :thumbup:

Power hungry adults. It's not even about mental capacity, it's about human nature. I have seen perfectly normal teachers get mad suddenly and throw stuff around the room or scream, or threaten (not violent but close enough to screwing up students future lives) when they are mad. Teachers are human, and teachers can get mad too. Give them a gun, a source of power, and see how thats goes... Plus with the added gun, what happens with the students? Do you respect a teacher because they are a good person, or out of fear because they have a gun? As I said, the day a gun is needed in the classroom out of fear of another columbine, is the day that we bow down to fear. People bow down to fear every day. And it isn't a bad thing. We have traffic signals due to fear. We have seat belts due to fear. We have pedestrian walkways due to fear. We build fences due to fear. Nearly everything in modern life is motivated - or began being motivated by - fear. There is a difference between fear and safety. Traffic signals are there to keep us safe. Seat belts are there for safety reasons. Gun's are there to enforce fear in people to stop them from doing something. Sure it's a safety reason, but in the end you want to strike fear into people so that they will be under your control. Nowadays there's a difference. But all safety was inspired by the fear of what could go wrong. Or, in this case, what has gone wrong.