I have no quarrel with arming teachers; it certainly appears necessary. I believe, however, that this entire situation will get worse before it gets better. Perhaps all schools — especially those training teachers — should have required courses in self defense and defense of others.
This ought to be good. So now we can do fundraisers for bullets instead of classroom materials because the funding ran out. Plus, now the kids won’t have to bring guns to school, they are already there! Brilliant plan!
Don’t spend money on education, hell no. Who needs that uppity knowledge anyway.
Bullets are cheaper than funerals…….
Texas, after testing and training, has some individuals permitted and carrying weapons in schools. I haven’t heard of any shootings in their system. Remember Guns don’t kill people – people kill people’ Until we figure out how to omit rage and/or instability in people we have to be able to stop violence in seconds, not by praying a police officer is just driving by the school at that very moment to stop a tragedy from turning into a horrible disaster. Until we can get a crystal ball, we need to protect our children!!
That goes for malls, theatres, offices etc, etc, etc.
Most of these killers are committing murder-suicide or are in no way deterred by the possibility of being killed. I really don’t think they care if it’s their gun that writes the check or Ms. Lippy’s. All this does is turn the lunchroom commons into the OK Corral.
Arming teachers is an awful, horrible idea, and it completely baffles me how anyone would think otherwise. My mother was a teacher, my ex-wife was a teacher, and I have friends who are teachers. None of them would be at all comfortable with a gun on their hip and the responsibility to shoot someone if necessary. They are all gentle people who enjoy nurturing young children and working with tools like blackboards and books and have told me they would rather quit teaching than be required to carry a handgun at all times….they are educators, not cops. Of course, obviously not ALL teachers have this type of personality…but every single one I know does, and I’d bet it’s the very large majority.
So are we willing to shut out the already-dwindling pool of competent teachers in favor of whatever new breed of half-teacher half-cop would apply for this job?
Can’t wait to hear the stories of potential teachers not being hired because they refuse to carry a gun and/or won’t go to training or the current teacher who lose their jobs because they are anti-gun.
I just think this is a really bad idea. Wonder what the cost would be to hire 1 armed guard or put a police officer in a school vs training teachers and then calculating the liability insurance cost that schools would have to pay who allow teachers to carry guns. Also wonder what the costs to schools would be if teachers carry guns and somebody got hurt/died when a teacher with a gun failed to do anything to stop or prevent an injury/death.
What a great state!
I have no quarrel with arming teachers; it certainly appears necessary. I believe, however, that this entire situation will get worse before it gets better. Perhaps all schools — especially those training teachers — should have required courses in self defense and defense of others.
This ought to be good. So now we can do fundraisers for bullets instead of classroom materials because the funding ran out. Plus, now the kids won’t have to bring guns to school, they are already there! Brilliant plan!
Don’t spend money on education, hell no. Who needs that uppity knowledge anyway.
Bullets are cheaper than funerals…….
Texas, after testing and training, has some individuals permitted and carrying weapons in schools. I haven’t heard of any shootings in their system. Remember Guns don’t kill people – people kill people’ Until we figure out how to omit rage and/or instability in people we have to be able to stop violence in seconds, not by praying a police officer is just driving by the school at that very moment to stop a tragedy from turning into a horrible disaster. Until we can get a crystal ball, we need to protect our children!!
That goes for malls, theatres, offices etc, etc, etc.
Let’s arm the popcorn vendor, the pimply-faced kid with too many piercings at Hot Topic, and, well, …I work in an office.
Hatchets seem to work well for homeless hitchhikers:
http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/05/smash-smash-smash-heroic-homeless-hitchhiker-with-hatchet-goes-viral-3381687/
Most of these killers are committing murder-suicide or are in no way deterred by the possibility of being killed. I really don’t think they care if it’s their gun that writes the check or Ms. Lippy’s. All this does is turn the lunchroom commons into the OK Corral.
Better they are stopped quickly rather than 5 or 10 minutes later when they are through with their slaughter.
Arming teachers is an awful, horrible idea, and it completely baffles me how anyone would think otherwise. My mother was a teacher, my ex-wife was a teacher, and I have friends who are teachers. None of them would be at all comfortable with a gun on their hip and the responsibility to shoot someone if necessary. They are all gentle people who enjoy nurturing young children and working with tools like blackboards and books and have told me they would rather quit teaching than be required to carry a handgun at all times….they are educators, not cops. Of course, obviously not ALL teachers have this type of personality…but every single one I know does, and I’d bet it’s the very large majority.
So are we willing to shut out the already-dwindling pool of competent teachers in favor of whatever new breed of half-teacher half-cop would apply for this job?
Can’t wait to hear the stories of potential teachers not being hired because they refuse to carry a gun and/or won’t go to training or the current teacher who lose their jobs because they are anti-gun.
I just think this is a really bad idea. Wonder what the cost would be to hire 1 armed guard or put a police officer in a school vs training teachers and then calculating the liability insurance cost that schools would have to pay who allow teachers to carry guns. Also wonder what the costs to schools would be if teachers carry guns and somebody got hurt/died when a teacher with a gun failed to do anything to stop or prevent an injury/death.