Are We Surrounded by Idiots?

A couple of recent news stories gives a big resounding "Yes!"

#1 -- The Creek County Sheriff's Department did a training exercise this week wherein deputies had to be tazed so they could learn to use a Tazer properly. The logic behind this (even though there IS no logic behind it) is that if you know what it feels like to be tazed, then you'll be better able to taze others.

Uh . . . NO. What are these idiots going to suggest next? That you have to get shot before you're allowed to carry a gun?

#2 -- The Oklahoma Department of Corrections opened up a pardon and parole office in Claremore, just the other side of Tulsa, where sex offenders have to go to check in. The office is across the street from an elementary school. By law, sex offenders aren't allowed to go within 300 feet of an elementary school. This particular school is only 70 feet away.

"Idiotic" doesn't even begin to cover this. In most cases, pedophiles can't be reformed. Why in the world REQUIRE them to go to an area where their prime targets are in abundance?

#3 -- A few months back, a middle school teacher -- a man -- got into a scuffle with a 13-year-old girl. Predictably, he came out the winner. She wound up in the hospital with a skull fracture. Seeing that this was his second offense (!!), he was suspended and later fired. But now Tulsa County's illustrious district attorney, Tim Harris, (I hope you can read the sarcasm in my voice!) has decided to not bring charges against the man.

I know kids today are very different from when I was a kid. I know there's been a huge increase in violence in schools. But this jerk was bigger than the girl, older, stronger. Unless she was armed and he was in fear for his life, he had no right to lay a hand on her -- much less to do so so violently that he cracked her skull. He should have been fired and jailed after the first incident. And now the DA chooses to not charge him with a crime?

Holy crap! Rachel9:07 AM