02-27-2018, 09:28 PM
I haven't met or seen any teachers interviewed who agree with the idea of training and serving as security guards along with doing their actual jobs of teaching.
But, I know there are some teachers in some locales who choose to carry on-the-job and are already permitted to do so.
I don't object to that IF there is a very strict set of safety guidelines. There is real risk. It's not just a talking point. In the last couple of years, teachers carrying on campus have shot themselves in the foot or leg in a few different states (Utah and Idaho among them, IIRC).
Fortunately, I haven't heard of any teachers losing their shit or being overpowered in order to have their guns stolen and then shooting a student. I hope that doesn't happen.
One of the concerns that I've heard repeated by several teachers, students, and education representatives who object to guns in classrooms is the reality that cops sometimes shoot the good guys/gals with guns when they arrive at the scene of an incident. It happened again on the same day as the Florida school massacre, Feb. 14th, when a man in Texas was able to get the gun away from a bad guy holding hostages in his church. Police arrived and opened fire on the good guy (who thankfully survived).
But, I know there are some teachers in some locales who choose to carry on-the-job and are already permitted to do so.
I don't object to that IF there is a very strict set of safety guidelines. There is real risk. It's not just a talking point. In the last couple of years, teachers carrying on campus have shot themselves in the foot or leg in a few different states (Utah and Idaho among them, IIRC).
Fortunately, I haven't heard of any teachers losing their shit or being overpowered in order to have their guns stolen and then shooting a student. I hope that doesn't happen.
One of the concerns that I've heard repeated by several teachers, students, and education representatives who object to guns in classrooms is the reality that cops sometimes shoot the good guys/gals with guns when they arrive at the scene of an incident. It happened again on the same day as the Florida school massacre, Feb. 14th, when a man in Texas was able to get the gun away from a bad guy holding hostages in his church. Police arrived and opened fire on the good guy (who thankfully survived).