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Title: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: Suppressed on March 16, 2018, 02:51:10 am: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Updated 3:39 PM; Posted 2:27 PM
By Anna Claire Vollers & John Sharp
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/women_scare_of_guns.html (http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/women_scare_of_guns.html)

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State Rep. Harry Shiver R-Stockton

Alabama lawmakers need to protect "our ladies" and to do that, they should not arm teachers because most are women, argued State Rep. Harry Shiver, R-Stockton, this morning.

Most women, and women teachers in particular, "are scared of guns," and should not be expected to carry them in classrooms, he said.

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Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: Suppressed on March 16, 2018, 02:53:49 am: ! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j53VIoBNaI#)
Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 16, 2018, 03:01:31 am: Advocating traditional gender roles? Gasp! /sarc
Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: Frank Cannon on March 16, 2018, 03:09:58 am: Harry followed up by saying he thought a good solution was getting a "colored" to stand guard at the school entrances because they were "imposing".
Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: RoosGirl on March 16, 2018, 03:11:47 am: Quote from: jmyrlefuller on March 16, 2018, 03:01:31 am
Advocating traditional gender roles? Gasp! /sarc

If he were doing that, wouldn't he be advocating for men to be teachers and not women?
Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: anubias on March 16, 2018, 03:12:59 am: I agree with him. I donâ€™t trust the majority of them to teach my children. I canâ€™t imagine giving the fruitcakes a gun!
Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: Frank Cannon on March 16, 2018, 03:48:45 am: Quote from: RoosGirl on March 16, 2018, 03:11:47 am
If he were doing that, wouldn't he be advocating for men to be teachers and not women?

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Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: 240B on March 16, 2018, 03:49:14 am: I don't think women are able to buy guns on their own. Don't they need their husband, brother, or father to buy it for them?

I really don't know.
Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: RoosGirl on March 16, 2018, 03:57:20 am: Quote from: Frank Cannon on March 16, 2018, 03:48:45 am
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Yeah, I always suspected you were the type that would touche a sir.
Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: Frank Cannon on March 16, 2018, 04:07:32 am: Quote from: RoosGirl on March 16, 2018, 03:57:20 am
Yeah, I always suspected you were the type that would touche a sir.

Well if they are hot, why not.
Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: GtHawk on March 17, 2018, 07:59:05 pm: Quote from: Frank Cannon on March 16, 2018, 04:07:32 am
Well if they are hot, why not.
Here ya go!
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Title: Re: Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women
Post by: Elderberry on March 17, 2018, 08:08:00 pm: Who says women can't handle a gun?

Top 50 Women in Competitive Shooting

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