Man, so many times I wished I could've just blown away my students. I guess I'm just too much of a wimp. Closest I ever came, and it wasn't even that close, was my second year of teaching at this ridiculous magnet school on the east coast; I told one of my students to shut the fuck up. I expected to find out some time in the next few days that I'd be out of a job, but incredibly, nothing ever came of it. Seriously? A teacher can say that to a student and get away with it?
My sixth and final year, I was back in a regular program in the crappiest school in the district, teaching math to kids who somehow got to 11th or 12th grade and couldn't add fractions. Shit. I could've blown away half of those ungrateful assholes and felt fine about it. Didn't own any firearms, though.