Teacher and guns

I would think that the school would have school security officers or something. They usually do carry guns. I remember my elementary school had about 3 or 4. I don’t remember anything about my middle or junior high school. But my high school had 6 to maybe 8 school securities. They basically looked like cops. They had guns, handcuffs, radios, badge, ticket book thing, and everything else a cop had. Well except their shirt says school security.

So in your case, the solution would not be to give teachers guns, but to get school securities. I’m sure if you rally up the parents, they would pressure the principle into getting securities.

This sort of makes the Troops to Teachers program a tad more appealing (for the other teachers). Some punks or gang-bangers come into the classroom holding their weapons all sideways like they’re cool before Sergeant/Captain-America-War-Hero blows them away like terrorist trash whereupon they turn back to the chalkboard and resume teaching.

A complete over-exaggeration, of course, but one of these individuals would likely (out-of-the-box) be able to handle the stress, the weapon and the tactics required to keep their classroom safe.

As a teacher, I’m not sure what you would gain from carrying a gun…especially with impressionable youth who observe everything. And where would you keep your firearm? God forbid a student gets a hold of your weapon. I would think for the above case you would want the firearm reachable, so how would it be secured? All American’s have a right to defend themselves, but some defense is inherently left up to professionals, to which teachers are not trained police. Do you think the same question was asked after the Va Tech massacre? How about in India….do you think Hotel workers should carry weapons to protect their guests? Since 9-11 do our airlines still have marshalls? They’re marshalls that carry weapons….not the pilots.