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TexasTowelie

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Fri Mar 16, 2018, 03:56 AM Mar 2018

Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women

Alabama lawmakers need to protect "our ladies" and to do that, they should not arm teachers because most are women, argued State Rep. Harry Shiver, R-Stockton, this morning.

Most women, and women teachers in particular, "are scared of guns," and should not be expected to carry them in classrooms, he said.

Shiver, in comments to AL.com, echoed the statements he made during this morning's Public Safety Committee hearing in which he said he wanted to protect women teachers.

"I'm not saying all (women), but in most schools, women are (the majority) of the teachers," Shiver told AL.com. "Some of them just don't want to (be trained to possess firearms). If they want to, then that's good. But most of them don't want to learn how to shoot like that and carry a gun."

Read more: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/women_scare_of_guns.html#incart_river_index

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Alabama lawmaker: We shouldn't arm teachers because most are women (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP
That's an awful lot of parentheses. nt cbreezen Mar 2018 #1
Right. Women can't shoot . . . . no_hypocrisy Mar 2018 #2
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