Texas teachers pack guns at school

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

HARROLD, Texas (AFP) — Teachers at a tiny Texas country school packed a gun along with their lesson plans when classes started this week.

The isolated, 110-student school near the border with Oklahoma is thought to be the first in the United States to allow guns in the classroom.

School officials say arming teachers is the only way to protect the old brick schoolhouse, which sits 30 minutes from the nearest police station.

"How do you stop the angry person without enough sense?" said Superintendent David Thweatt of the Harrold Independent School District.

"It's not going to take very long for it to be a total massacre."

But critics say the risks of having guns around children far outweigh the potential threat of a crazed gunman.

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