Bill Maher: The Guns of Homeroom (HuffPost)

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Bill Maher


05.25.2007
The Guns of Homeroom (75 comments )

Everyone complains about school shootings, but only the South Carolina state house is doing anything about it. Their plan (approved by a subcommittee last Wednesday)? Allow concealed weapons on public school campuses, starting in elementary school.

Okay, I know that sounds a little... what's the word I'm looking for?... INSANE, but Republican state Sep. Jeff Duncan explains:

"We're not talking about kids. We're talking about responsible adults."

Phew. Well, then go ahead. If it's just teachers, parents, janitors and lunch ladies, lock and load. You stupid fuck. I hope you die.

Ernest Ellis, the law enforcement director at the University of South Carolina is against the bill:

"Today, if we respond, we know the person with the weapon is the bad guy."

But what does he know?

In South Carolina you need to be 21 to get a concealed weapon permit. So the undergrads wouldn't be armed. Just the teachers and grad students. So it wouldn't actually stop anyone like the Virginia Tech shooter, until he worked his way up from the sophomores and stopped to re-load, but here I am applying practical logic to an argument made by guys who come in their pants when they hear the words "muzzle velocity."

How is their sexual kink our problem? Should gun nuts be allowed to marry?

The bill won't be ready for South Carolina's governor to sign this year. The governor, Mark Sanford, a Republican, said he hadn't thought about it yet.

"Gun to my head, I don't know what I'll do," he didn't say.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/the-guns-of-homeroom_b_49355.html

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1. I really have no opinion one way or another about this...

but, if it's enough to send the anti-gun hand-wringers into an arm-flapping fit of histrionics, then I'm in favor of it.

[villager]

2. There's no situation your basic gun nut doesn't view as having the happy potential

...for drawing down on someone and blasting away...

[alarimer]

3. Maher is right

This is an insane bill. If the police are against it, that is good enough for me.

It will likely only result in more dead people. It will not prevent anything. Many states have concealed carry laws and not one single shooting has ever been prevented by someone carrying a concealed weapon. Not one. You would think that eventually, given all the guns around, that someone would have done just that.