let teachers kill unruly students!

[Doug Henwood]

Things are getting mighty strange on the so-called left. I just read 
this in the new Counterpunch (an item I believe that the CP editor on 
this list had nothing to do with, which is another way of saying it 
was written by Alexander Cockburn):

"One of the pleasures of talking to Larry Pratt, executive director 
of the Gun Owners of America, is hearing Charlton Heston denounced as 
a chardonnay-swilling Hollywood sellout....

   Pratt's solution to the schoolyard killings: Let the teachers bear 
arms, just like they do in South Africa, where on instructor recently 
gunned down a bellicose student...."

Me, I much prefer chardonnay to the idea of armed teachers, but, as 
the rustic Alex told me once, I'm an "urban weenie."

Doug