The commies banned that from high school history many years ago. I say we ban commies and go back to our old history books and put prayer back in school, take out sex ed, put in civics class, and take out gayism, and put in citizenship classes, and take out socialism, and put in capitalism. You know, like education used to be. It was so much better before corrupt vil labor unions took over.

Commies? Please tell me you aren’t actually serious about the idea that some group of communists somewhere were able to dictate what went into American high school textbooks.

Civics classes are part of the general curriculum in most grade school systems. You don’t teach “capitalism” as a class in grade school. You can mention it in history class, or in an economics class where it belongs. I don’t think any “commies” have banned its discussion completely from any schools.

Yes, I’m calling you out on your research and content. I couldn’t care less about your obvious lack of education or your religious fundamentalism.

@Gunny – I also live in a country were the general populace don’t have a paranoid fear of the government, so we don’t worry about firearms being tightly controlled. The best defence against a tyrannical govt is a strong democracy (something we have in NZ, but seems to be lacking in the USA), not a gun.

Famous last words of many an elephant hunter. Don’t get me started on giant squid.

Forgotten about Amy Bishop, have we? She definitely preferred unarmed colleagues!

Cops are routinely unarmed in my country, and armed security guards are a rarity (visiting heads of state, perhaps, may bring their own security teams).

Perhaps surprisingly, homicides of our police are a great rarity. Typically in Great Britain in any one year just one or two police are killed on duty due to criminal acts.

How true. Cho at VA Tech and Kazmierczak at Northern Illinois definitely preferred an unarmed student body.

But why would you want to be crass enough to put that fact on a bumper sticker. Sure wouldn’t play well in DeKalb or Blacksburg.