Texas School District Will Let Teachers Carry Guns

A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to pass a law specifically allowing teachers and staff to pack heat when classes begin later this month.

Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting teachers follow certain requirements.

Superintendent David Thweatt told FOXNews.com the policy was initiated because of safety concerns.[i]


Article here.

God bless Texas

I liked the comment that stated basically, whenever something happens in a small town, people
say nothing like that ever happened around here before, we never had any problems.
I feel that is exactley why anyone qualified to carry a weapon should carry it.
I live in a small town and always carry, how would i feel if I could have prevented a shooting, say at the
local grocery store or any other small town area.

We just had a robbery at a local jewery store by a couple from NYC, we are 2 1/2 hours from NYC, just off
a intersate. In this case one of our local police interrupted the robbery and captured one of the criminals.
(He was alerted by a local citizen who saw the robbery going down thru the window.)

the one right on mill st??

thats the only one there i know of, i dont know the town THAT well.

wow, i never heard of that.


on that subject, a few mths ago a few illegals came up here from reading (about an hour) and robbed a few people about 200yd from my house. one was treated for brusies on his face from the illegal pushing the gun in his face. (along with 3 other robberies in the area while they were here)

i always carry. i just kept on thinking, if that fucking scum tried that with me he'd have a few 9's in his chest, while his attn was distracted.

they did catch the guys later. they had many outstanding warrants on them as well.

It was the one just down the street from the police station, there are 3 shops on mill st, they still haven't
caught the accomplish(black from Phila). The patrolman did an excellent job.

Published July 15, 2008 07:45 am - A 38-year-old Philadelphia man was arrested Monday evening after a short foot pursuit by police who caught him in the act of trying to rob Ryan's Jewelers in Danville with a female accomplice.

Armed robbery at jewelry store thwarted
Suspect arraigned, accomplice still at large

By Jaime North
The Danville News


DANVILLE -- A 38-year-old Philadelphia man was arrested Monday evening after a short foot pursuit by police who caught him in the act of trying to rob Ryan's Jewelers in Danville with a female accomplice.


Eric J. Smith was being arraigned before District Judge Marvin Shrawder, of Danville, at press time on charges of robbery, unlawful restraint, aggravated assault and theft. Authorities were still searching for the alleged accomplice, who was described as a young African-American woman with short hair and well-dressed.

According to Montour County District Attorney Robert Buehner Jr., several citizens alerted Danville police officer Gerard Zeidler Jr., who was in front of the police station on Mill Street speaking with other citizens, seconds after seeing Smith and his accomplice acting suspiciously in the jewelry store, 267 Mill St., between 5:15 to 5:30 p.m.

Zeidler then ran down the street to the store and interrupted the robbery in progress, Buehner said. Smith ran out the back door, while his accomplice fled in the other direction, according to Buehner.

Smith was stopped along Continental Boulevard minutes later by Buehner, who used his car to block Smith's path. Zeidler and Danville Sgt. William Wilt apprehended Smith in the street before taking him back to the police station for processing, Buehner said.

"Zeidler and Wilt were heroic in apprehending Smith, who was in the process of committing a serious crime here in downtown," Buehner said. "We're still in the process of working with the store owners to ascertain from the inventory what has not been recovered."

Buehner estimated that more than $100,000 worth of jewelry was involved in the robbery.

During the robbery attempt, Buehner said Smith restrained one employee while another employee and a customer were in the store. No one was seriously injured, although the three victims and Zeidler were affected by pepper spray that was used to halt the robbery, according to Buehner.

E-mail comments to jnorth@thedanvillenews.com.


here is a follow up story at this link
http://www.dailyitem.com/archivesearch/ ... 00053.html

yeah, that'll blend in good




so this big tough guy had to rough up 2 women to rob the store. hope they throw the book at this looser.


cant say im supprised this didnt make our local "rag". of course, i usually just skim it as its all just crap, but i think id have noticed that. ??

btw, my mother commutes there every day, she works in the hospital. my uncle has a chiropractic office on the back street by cole's. im not there alot, but i know my way around the town fairly well.