Article Image

IPFS News Link • Gun Rights

2008 Texas School Story (And I still remember the outcries!)

• http://www.dailypaul.com, by jimwill
 By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. | NY Times
Published: August 28, 2008

HARROLD, Tex. — Students in this tiny town of grain silos and ranch-style houses spent much of the first couple of days in school this week trying to guess which of their teachers were carrying pistols under their clothes."

“We made fun of them,” said Eric Howard, a 16-year-old high school junior. “Everybody knows everybody here. We will find out.”

The school board in this impoverished rural hamlet in North Texas has drawn national attention with its decision to let some teachers carry concealed weapons, a track no other school in the country has followed. The idea is to ward off a massacre along the lines of what happened at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.