Want To Do Something In Wake of Sandy Creek? Arm our Nation’s Teachers.
“Gun Free Zones” are so incandescently stupid that only college-educated liberals could take the idea seriously. Review any recent mass shooting and you’ll not find one person who was saved by a “No Guns Allowed” sign. Bringing a placard to a gunfight is an idea that richly deserves unfettered ridicule by every man woman and child who gives a damn about public safety in a world where monsters live.
Teachers should be armed. Any teacher who is an otherwise law-abiding citizen and has a mind to should be permitted to carry a firearm. Personally, I would like to see teachers carry a firearm on their hip as a public warning to any who might menace their charges. Continue Reading
I have many grandchildren, so many in fact that in moments of confusion I refer to them by number, especially the string of boys all of whom have a name starting with the hard “c” sound. Number six and I were enjoying “Just Grandpa And Me” dinner at Panera bread and the subject of money came up.
Ronald Reagan referred to Congress, the news media and special interest groups as an “Iron Triangle” that hampered his efforts to get the federal budget under control. In the decades since, I think we are learning that Reagan’s iron triangle is a symptom, not a cause.
The city of St. Louis is a great place to live as an adult. The housing stock is sturdy and generally well maintained. Prices are reasonable. We have an infrastructure for a million with 400,000 residents. We have a vibrant civic life, lots of churches and while corruption is never a laughing matter, the drama we see in our city government is laughably inept compared to Chicago.