TX bill - Teachers can kill students to protect property

[AJL]

What the ever-loving fuck is wrong with my state?

From DailyKos - www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/29/1360958/-Texas-bill-will-allow-teachers-to-kill-students-to-protect-school-property?detail=facebook#

"This may be the most Texas thing I have ever heard.

The Lone Star State already permits teachers to have firearms in the classroom, but H.B. 868, also known as the Teacher’s Protection Act, would authorize instructors to use “force or deadly force on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored event in defense of the educator’s person or in defense of students of the school that employs the educator.” Instructors would also have the right to use deadly force “in defense of property of the school that employs the educator.” Moreover, civil immunity would be granted to those who use deadly force, meaning they would not be liable for the injury or death of student.

Having a teacher whip out his or her trusty sidearm to protect one's students from encroaching bears or Muslims or one of Texas's many, many other proud gun toters who may have momentarily lost one's mind is one thing, but instructing teachers that they are to use deadly force in defense of school property and that they don't have to worry about getting sued afterwards, now that adds a whole new layer o' Texas. Presumably this new law is needed because on occasion teachers have come across students defacing school lockers and have been previously unclear on whether or not that is sufficient grounds to shoot them in the head (answer: yes!) or because little Timmy (oh, who am I kidding, little Miguel) is preparing to carve his initials into a desk and only a teacher's well-placed bullet can stop the destruction of school property that is about to occur. (This also stands to make turn-in-your-textbooks day considerably more exciting. Better hope I don't see any penned-in mustaches in your history book, you little snots.)

I'm honestly trying to come up with a scenario in which having a teacher execute someone on campus "in defense of" school "property" does not sound like the dumbest thing anyone has ever proposed, and I'm drawing a blank. Perhaps the bill's author, State Rep. Dan Flynn (R-BecauseDuh), has this sketched out in his own mind, but the rest of us may need a bit more explanation. Then again, summary execution for property crimes has been high on the Texas list of must-have laws for some time now, so expanding it to every teacher at your kid's school must no doubt be considered a perfectly logical extension."

[orangeblossom]

[iammalcolmx]

They are gonna kill Black kids like it's going out of style.

[charminglife]

This is fucking gross. Why are people PROUD to write laws that make shit like iPads more important that a person's life? I'm really feeling ragey about this.

[zoegirltx]

i now denounce all this!

and pledge allegiance to humanity and civility and common sense....

Wow...I think we're regressing back in time where property is more valuable than lives...

[cattledogkisses]

Why is property more valuable than someone's life? Are these nutters even hearing themselves?

[pixy0stix]

Sounds reasonable.

[awick14]

Yikes! TX has some very weird laws.

[penguingrrl]

That's really disturbing. And seems to leave a lot of room for "that black kid in the hoodie was holding the textbook, I assumed he was stealing it."

[pixy0stix]

I'm guessing the idiot who wrote this meant "property" to be the school grounds. Such as an intruder entering a house would be the homeowner defending their property.

[btdt]

Ah, let one of those little motherfuckers try to steal the batteries out of my class set of graphing calculators. They won't live to regret it!

[NewOrleans]

So when the kids leave the caps off teachers' markers or fuck up their school-issued iPads, teachers can blow them away?