Posted: 7/11/2007 8:22:23 AM EDT
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I was just thinking about the my sixth grade techer for some reason. Her name was Mrs. Hildebrandt. She was fat, ugly, sometimes mean, but overall one of my favorite teachers. I was a "hyper active" kid, and one time when I was being particularly "hyper active" she got up and gave me a moderately hard, bare handed swat on the ass (it got my attention btw, and I sat down and kept quiet...mostly because I was extremely angry though). Anyways, I was remembering one lesson that we had on American history. This was about 1987/1988 BTW. We were talking about the constitution and the second amendment. I specifically remember one comment that Mrs. Hildebrandt made: 'The reason that the police don't have machine guns is because in our country we don't want the police to be armed better than the people. That's the reason for the second amendment." Now, it wasn't entirely accurate, but it wasn't bad for a public school teacher. At that time the police still didn't have a whole lot of machine guns, SWAT teams were primarily only in the big cities and even then they weren't using alot of FA weapons. Either way, you'd NEVER hear a public school teacher say anything remotely similar to that these days. Even if they thought it they'd keep their mouth shut about it. PS Don't turn this into a "Militarizaion of teh Police" thread. |
No, I wanted to discuss how education and attitudes have changed in this country to being decidedly and explicitly not only anti-gun, but anti-anything that could be determined to be a weapon. It was SteyrAUG's thread that had me thinking about these things. In less than 20 years we went from an environment where a teacher would say that the reason for the second amendment is so that the people aren't outgunned by the police to an environment where having a nail file will get you expelled. I don't care though. If you want to talk about the "militarization of teh police" then let's talk about that. Or both. Just don't get too nutty about militarization of the police. |
Wow sounds exactly like my 6th grade teacher and exactly how I tended to behave. Only it was Mrs Buttrel at Tucker elem in Norfolk, Virginia in 81/82. She said that the 2nd Amnd was to insure that the rights of the people shall not be infringed by the government. That is something that has stuck with me all these years. |