Nah... Way cooler to whip out the shiny metal phal...er...gun and start spewing hot.....lead all over the place.

OOOOOOO!!!! Here's an EVEN BETTER IDEA (TM. Courtesy of a S.C. Repub senator):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1aL0W5VoAA

 Welcome to Somalia Elementary School.

Careful RP - your source seems to be a little bit biased.  In fact, the idea was not to 'arm' students, but to offer a gun safety course.  So, you are not for teaching respect for guns and training on their proper use?  Keep letting kids glorify guns without any realistic education about them......

South Carolina Senator suggests gun course for high school students

SOUTH CAROLINA (WITI) — Math, science, social studies and guns? Senator Lee Bright, a Republican from Spartanburg, South Carolina is sponsoring a bill that would give school districts the option to create a gun course for high school students.

Bright says he got the idea from the days when students could join a rifle team or learn about shooting during a school day. 

The class, dubbed the “South Carolina Gun Safety Program” course would focus on learning how to properly use a firearm, safety techniques and the history of the second amendment and the right to bear arms.

Some parents support the plan, while others are not so sure that a gun course should take the lead over additional courses in math and English.

Bright says he’s simply offering the option. It would be up to each individual school district to add the course to the curriculum.

The class would have to be offered at an off-site shooting range, since guns are not allowed on school campuses.

http://fox6now.com/2013/01/21/...igh-school-students/

backup links, one from a CBS affiliate:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...olina_n_2533401.html

http://www2.wspa.com/news/2013...-high-sc-ar-5406574/

I guess sex ed is ok in school but heaven help us if we try to educate students on gun safety.....

OK now, if you run remember you have to throw the scissors down. Post signs all over, no running with scissors. Are they real scissors, or those plastic ones? Any limit on the size of the scissor blades? Will you have to keep the drawer with the scissors locked or can you have them on your desk in plain sight? This raises more questions than it answers.

Trouble is, you can't run with scissors, but you can with guns.

Don't depend on Homeland Security to keep you secure. 

Sex ed, huh Cap'n? 

*as I drive by the church with the sign out front that says "Pregnant? Need Help? Call XXX-XXXX."*

Apparently they've only half succeeded at sex ed down here. I can hardly wait to see how teaching gun safety goes......

Down here?  Seems like Alabama is not that far off from other places 'up there' - 

Teen Pregnancy Rate

Alabama - 73

New York - 77

Pennsylvania - 53

Ohio - 62

New Jersey - 68

Rhode Island - 62

Illinois - 67

Indiana - 62

United States - 70

So, just to clarify, Alabama doesn't seem to be so far outside of the national average.

Here is some interesting (off topic) information, though - 

• Teenage abortion rates were highest in New York (41 per 1,000), New Jersey, Nevada,
Delaware and Connecticut.

• More than half of teenage pregnancies ended in abortion in New Jersey, New York and
Connecticut.

http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/USTPtrends.pdf