Constitutional Law

Brady Campaign on TX school district allowing armed teachers

Press release here. Of course, they're opposed.

I wonder if they see the incongruity of one section of their press release, considering that they pushed "gun free school zones" on the claim they were needed to protect children:

"?It is a myth that ?gun-free schools? somehow make our children more vulnerable,? said Brady Center President Paul Helmke. ?In fact, America?s schools are some of the safest places for them to be. As Gary Kleck, a researcher frequently cited by the gun lobby, has noted, ?both gun carrying and gun violence are ? phenomena almost entirely confined to the world outside schools.? Less than 1% of school-age victims of homicide are killed on school grounds or on the way to or from school."

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).