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You can't teach with a gun in your truck

Posted on February 13, 2008 5:16 PM
Scratch one popular myth about Florida. There are places you can't carry a gun, even though there's probably enough guns in Miami alone to make South Beach the third most heavily armed nation on the planet.

In Polk County, the school board decided they were so horrified by Phillip Bradley having a nine in his truck that he had to be fired...
A hearing officer had recommended just a 90-day suspension, but school board members said that would have set a bad example for students.

Bradley said he was sorry for his students. He also said he felt as if the board was making an example of him in an election year.
If they really wanted to make an example for the kiddies, the teachers should haul out the 2006 crime report for Polk County and explain how tossing the truck mechanics teacher made the school safer. Three thousand violent crimes, population of a little over half a million? You'd be stupid not to get a gun permit.
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