EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES... CROSSFIRE!

Another bright idea from our friends at the NRA in the aftermath of the recent school shooting in Minnesota:

All options should be considered to prevent rampages like the Minnesota school shooting that took 10 lives — including making guns available to teachers, a top National Rifle Association leader said Friday.

"I'm not saying that that means every teacher should have a gun or not, but what I am saying is we need to look at all the options at what will truly protect the students," the NRA's first vice president, Sandra S. Froman, told The Associated Press.

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Froman said if it is the responsibility of teachers to protect students in a school, "then we as a society, we as a community have to provide a way for the teachers to do that."

Froman cited the 1997 school shooting incident in Pearl, Miss., where a teacher retrieved a gun from his car when a student opened fire, then held the student at bay until police arrived.

Coming up next, guns for librarians? Lunch ladies? Student council? I'll tell ya, as a former appointed member of my high school's government in 1998-1999, I sure wouldn't have minded having a piece of my own to enforce my position on what the prom theme should have been. ("Damnit, we're going with 'A Tron Christmas', and Mr 9-millimeter agrees!")

Of course, I'm sure Mary Rosh thinks it's a good idea.