Georgia State Representative (Republican) Mitchell Kaye recently dared to announce plans to introduce legislation authorizing teachers to be rmed. Later, he claimed that Georgia law already allows teachers to carry weapons. It is no surprise that such a ludicrous law would exist in such an insanely flagrant police state.

Only a dimwit in Dixie could propose such violent and dangerously ignorant legislation. No one would deny that there are too many guns in America’s schools. Yet, very few fools like Kaye would suggest that more guns are the answer to this problem.

Just as moronic slavemasters sought to make kidnapped Africans docile and productive via torture and robbery, controlling firearms in schools by arming teachers is an exercise in idiocy. Might the NRA be advising Kaye? If such a bill passes, will gun manufacturers extend special discounts to teachers, to boost gun sales? Will department stores stock guns, as they do notebooks, during their annual “Back to School” sales? More importantly, can teachers ever be certain that their weapons will be secured from the curious and volatile hands of their intended targets?

Why should we expect disturbed boys to behave sanely when grown men who are elected officials also behave insanely? Why should we expect young persons, who are bombarded by violence in EVERY arena (including sports, music, television, etc....) to behave peacefully? How can we expect classrooms to exist unaffected by the lessons learned beyond their walls?

It is an ancient and universal truth: Violence begets violence. It is contagious. It spreads from radios to televisions, from minds to hearts, from visions to actions, and, eventually, from students’ lockers to teachers’ desks.

America was founded upon violence against Native Americans. It was built upon violence against Africans. It thrives upon economic violence against those who are poor. It prides itself upon military violence against countries which are weak. It amuses itself with violence for entertainment. Yet, it dares to hypocritically lament the violence that it breeds in its children.

The only thing uglier than hypocrisy is ignorance. The only thing more deadly than students with guns are teachers, instructed to shoot first. The state of Georgia may be thanked for another legendary failure akin to their loss of the Civil War. Let us hope that this vigilante legislation will not prompt schools to become any bloodier battlefields than they are already.

Fatal violence in schools clearly warrants greatly increased security. Perhaps armed police officers should be stationed at all times. Certainly, trained security staffers would be superior to an untrained staff of nervous teachers with guns.

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