Get ready for the Yahoo! hate...

[CaptainAmerica]

abolishing "gun free zones" makes more sense

[erowe1]

Notice that the article never provides a quote of what Rand actually said.

[Traditional Conservative]

Idiotic statement by Paul. Most teachers should not be armed simply because they don't have the temperment or training. I would not send my kid to a school with armed teachers. A couple armed security guards in a school makes sense, arming teachers does not.

Anyone who has a concealed carry permit has been trained and should have the right to carry a concealed weapon anywhere they want to, including public schools.

[matt0611]

Notice that the article never provides a quote of what Rand actually said.

Of course not.

[J_White]

typical media twist to whatever he actually said.

[RickyJ]

oh dear, just saw this pop up on Yahoo!

Rand Paul: Teachers should be armed

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/r...-election.html

nearly 2,000 comments in an hour... not sure if I can stomach looking through the hate and bile.

Yeah he messed up saying "should be armed" when he should have said "be allowed to be armed."

No one should be forced to buy or carry anything they don't want to. It is a minor point, but Rand is going to have to be careful what he says from now on because the media will use quotes like this to bury him if he runs for president in 2016.

[Expatriate]

Idiotic statement by Paul. Most teachers should not be armed simply because they don't have the temperment or training. I would not send my kid to a school with armed teachers. A couple armed security guards in a school makes sense, arming teachers does not.

Come on Brandon, you've been here since '07, should know by now to take anything the media says with a grain of salt. Rand was speaking out against the "Gun Free Zone" idiocy. He did not advocate arming teachers. Here's what he said:

"If my kids were at that school, I would have preferred that the teacher had concealed-carry and had a gun in her desk. Is it perfect? No. Would they always get the killer? No. Would an accident sometimes happen in a melee? Maybe. But nobody (at the Connecticut school) had any defense, and he just kept shooting until he was tired and he decided to shoot himself."

video of the statement, still with the misleading title: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...chers/1843003/

Media - ZOMG Rand Paul says ARM all teachers with ASSAULT WEAPONS!!!!!!!1!!!1!!!!!

If not wanting to stop someone from having a weapon constitutes arming them, then I am currently responsible for arming all of you because I do not write laws and show up at your door to take your guns.

By this logic, anyone who doesn't support gun confiscation and "gun free zones" is some kind of arms dealer who wants to "arm" everyone.

[Expatriate]

Yeah he messed up saying "should be armed" when he should have said "be allowed to be armed."

No one should be forced to buy or carry anything they don't want to. It is a minor point, but Rand is going to have to be careful what he says from now on because the media will use quotes like this to bury him if he runs for president in 2016.

He didn't say "should be armed". The media said that and then acted outraged at their own statement. How odd, eh?

Watch the video in my last post, it has everything he said in it. Note that even though the title is Sen. Rand Paul: Let's arm teachers, he never says those words. That's why they did not put quotation marks around it.

[Expatriate]

double post

[GunnyFreedom]

Notice that the article never provides a quote of what Rand actually said.

Of course not.

This place looks awful familiar.