MN legislator says yes, Gov. Dayton says no, but a Mpls. school staffer took matters into her own hands and brought a .357 Magnum to school. Should teachers bear arms?
Updated below. Should Minnesota teachers carry guns at school? One staff member at a Minneapolis public school apparently thought so—according to authorities, she brought a loaded .357 Magnum to Seward Montessori Wednesday. MN Rep. Tony Cornish (R-Vernon Center) has a bill that would let educators have firearms in classrooms, according to WCCO-TV. The idea is to prevent massacres like last week's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT that left 20 students and seven adults dead. Cornish told WCCO: “We found out that nothing else works, and I think teachers are the best people to confront this. Even an armed security or an armed cop doesn’t do a lot of good if they get by him or her. Then they’ve got all these classrooms that…
The court case against Sciota Township's Dayna Bell has renewed calls to overhaul a system which activists characterize as "broken every step of the way," while opponents in the legislature view their initiatives as an attack on the free market.
After years of activism, many bills drafted and scores of dead or harmed puppies and kittens, animal rescue groups say they were left empty-handed after the 2012 legislative session concluded—in spite of widespread public outrage prompted by the latest case of an apparent Minnesota puppy mill run by Dayna Bell in southern Dakota County. In April, Bell was charged with 16 counts of animal cruelty for allegedly killing dogs at her breeding facility just outside of Northfield. With the way the system is structured now, most cases like Bell’s never come to light, animal rescue groups say. At present, the state of Minnesota does not regulate the cat and dog breeding industry and existing animal cruelty laws are rarely enforced. “Someone has …
Cassandra Lundgren
2:43 am on Sunday, March 17, 2013
teachers please just focus on teaching our youth... leave the security..defense and protection to armed guards or trained professionals in using them and protecting .... a classroom is a handful ... and all it does is give the idea inside the one student's brain.. i can get access .. now...plan ... disarm teacher cause she/he isn't paying attention to the subtle cues or at all to the weapon, or … more ›