{"id":365,"date":"2008-08-15T23:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T04:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=365"},"modified":"2010-07-19T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:22:19","slug":"a-welcome-outbreak-of-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"A welcome outbreak of sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instapundit links to  this interesting news story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/804\/story\/834022.html\">Texas school district lets teachers, staff pack pistols.<\/a>  While this is a step in the right direction, I think it does not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>I think all teachers, day-care staff, and other adults in loco parentis for groups of children should be <em>required<\/em>  to carry firearms on the job.  Maintaining continued proficiency at rapid-reaction tactical shooting should be a condition of their continued employment.  Their job is to protect children; if they are not physically, mentally, and morally competent to do that job, they don&#8217;t belong in it.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt any explanation of the threat model is needed.  But I will point out that the Israelis require schoolteachers to be armed &#8211; and the <em>only<\/em> successful terrorist attack in memory on a group of Israeli schoolkids happened after the teachers, on a field trip, allowed themselves to be disarmed at a Jordanian border post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instapundit links to this interesting news story: Texas school district lets teachers, staff pack pistols. While this is a step in the right direction, I think it does not go far enough. I think all teachers, day-care staff, and other adults in loco parentis for groups of children should be required to carry firearms on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=365\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A welcome outbreak of sanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}