A Jackson County Circuit judge ruled Friday that the Medford teacher who sued to be allowed to carry a pistol on her at work (the school), as she has a concealed carry permit, is not allowed to carry.
English teacher Shirley Katz, for those who don't remember, has a valid concealed carry permit and a violent ex-husband. She fears for her life as he is a very bad and violent man. She has restraining orders against him, but if someone is willing to commit murder, an Administrative piece of paperwork won't matter.
Circuit Judge G. Philip Arnold wrote "The issue before this Court is whether or not the state statute prohibits the district from having its policy which prohibits the carrying of weapons by those persons mentioned in the policy."
Translation: Guns are bad because they kill people and we'd rather have this teacher live in fear and die than to allow legal responsible gun owners to keep and bear firearms as the Constitution allows.
Keep in mind, Monday through Friday, from when she leaves for work in the morning until she returns home in the evening, her ex-husband has the ability to find and attack her, killing her. She isn't allowed to keep her legal and permitted firearm with her, as she is allowed to by the Constitution and the Concealed Carry permit she's received. As she works at a school, she is forcibly disarmed (Your car is generally viewed as private and a warrant is needed to search it, as though it were your home. On a school campus, it doesn't matter. You can't have a firearm in your car either.)
This irrational fear, being exploited by the anti-gun crowd and taught by schools, is growing far out of hand. In this recent ruling, the judge placed irrational fear of firearms and an overbearing and unconstitutionally intrusive (Not to mention wholly failed) policy of "Gun Free Schools" ahead of the life of a teacher.
I hope she is able to appeal this decision. It is WRONG to not allow a teacher to defend herself from an abusive and deranged ex-husband. Gun Free Schools have led to nothing but a series of school shootings. Read that again: Gun Free Schools have led to nothing but a series of school shootings!
Our kids are NOT safe at a school in which students who wish to shoot up the place and kill people are getting guns in, but a woman who seeks to defend herself from an abusive ex-husband (to the point where she believes he wants to kill her) cannot have her legal and permitted firearm on her for her protection.
If anything happens to this woman, on her way to school, at school, on her way home.... even AT home from the car to her firearm... The school should be held responsible and the Judge that made this ruling should be held responsible.
They have chosen the failed policy of 'gun free zones' over the right to life and the constitution.
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Rah rah rah... abolish gun free zones, not guns! You know the drill...
Any word on whether she is planning on appealing?
Another great article, Lance. Actually, I think this is one of your best.
I don't know yet. It took a bit of digging to find this underpublished article.
I feel bad for this teacher. She certainly seems to have a valid reason to carry a weapon and in some cases, rules should be bent to protect lives.
What would happen, I wonder, if this teachers IS harmed because she didn't have her gun with her?
The husband will be charged and no one will listen to calls for the school system to be held responsible, nor for the government or this judge to be held responsible.
If you can't carry on you and, by nature of being on school grounds, can't keep your firearm in your car while you teach, then yo are effectively disarmed from when you walk to your car in the morning until you open your gun safe and get your firearm out in the evening.
If she is hurt or killed while she is forcibly disarmed, then blame should be cast not only on the one who hurt her (the ex-husband) but also on those that forcibly disarmed her.
I know for students, the school is responsible from the time they leave their property (home) in the morning to the time they return to their property in the evening. I don't know how that works for faculty, though.
-- quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Should be doubly so for faculty, since they have the legal ability to apply for and received concealed carry permits everywhere but Wisconsin and IL (and DC as well)
unfortunately, common sense isn't common when you're dealing with the anti-grun crowd, or the scores of sheep that those wolves have educated.
While the story as a whole is rather sickening, the first comment at the bottom bothers me the most.
This teacher has no right carrying a firearm into school. If her life is so endangered that she needs to carry a firearm at all times, what is she going to do while teaching? Carry it to the blackboard, always keeping her eyes open for her ex-husband? Take it to the playground? A handgun is only good for defense if the carrier can actually shoot someone with it. Perhaps she should have a designated student to "watch out" for her husband at all times. The student could yell "fire!" if he saw her husband, and the teacher could whip out the gun and fire in the husband's general direction.
First of all, "no right"? She technically has every right, since every law regarding gun control is actually unconstitutional, especially the ones that outright prohibit a legal, authorized gun owner to carry.
Carry it to the blackboard, always keeping her eyes open for her ex-husband?
Um...duh... that's what it means to have a concealed carry permit...
A handgun is only good for defense if the carrier can actually shoot someone with it.
....That's the whole point....
The guy's the epitome of ignorance of the Constitution and perhaps even a serious lack of logic...
-- quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
a whole crop of idiots, who don't understand what happens, given every time it is done historically, what happens when you ban weapons.
Darfur, Nazi Germany, Pol Pot's regime, etc. etc. etc.
Oppression and corruption SOARS once you remove weapons from the common person.
I think what scares me the most is that he's a perfect example of how many people in the general public think.... o.o
-- quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
people never understand until it is too late.
some days I feel like just riding the runaway train off the cliff, other days I want to try to stop it.
people like that tend to make the days into "just ride it off the cliff" days.