Arming teachers

I would think it would be restricted to an active shooter situation only.

Highly trained police officers have been known to shoot and kill unarmed innocent people before. There is a HUGE risk that relatively untrained teachers could shoot and kill a student. Can you imagine the uproar?! If I were a teacher there is no way I would want to open myself up to possible litigation by having a gun in my possession. Not to mention that I, as a 5'2" woman, could easily be overpowered if anyone wanted to take the gun from me.

PS. I am horrified at what you have had to endure as a teacher. 

What do teachers feel about possibly having a stun gun or mace instead of a gun? I know it’s something a couple of teachers I personally know would be comfortable with. They would never want the responsibility of having a gun and being in the position of needing to shoot someone, but they both say they wouldn’t be adverse to stunning someone or spraying someone to give enough time to possibly get the “shooter” subdued. They both felt that even if they missed, at least it might distract the shooter and if they accidentally hit an innocent bystander it wouldn’t be deadly. They would recover. Our schools have an armed resource officer and it might give them time to get to the shooter since you never know where a shooter will be in the school. If the resource officer is on the first floor and the shooter is on the 2nd, it could take a minute or two to even be in the same vicinity.

It’s just a thought that we talked about that hadn’t been brought up. It’s crappy we have to even think about it.

Today at work we had a representative from the school that had a shooter in last Sept come in and get information on security film for the windows in the doors at the school. It won’t stop a bullet, but the film will hold the broken glass together. They are hoping it will give a few more seconds for everyone to get to a safe space. This is the 3rd school we’ve had inquiries from. We’ve had churches inquire recently also.

I also agree.

Schools can barely buy paper. Now their FM going to have to budget for guns, gun safes, training, not to mention night guards, as now there are several fire arms on school grounds that we don't want stolen by stupid teenagers.

Where are we getting this money?

Such expensive ridiculousness to want to turn our schools into war zones when we could just stop selling guns to people who cannot show they are fit to own one.

It's not a difficult concept, unless you're bought and paid for by the NRA and the gun lobby. There is no good reason why an unstable person in our country can walk into Academy and walk out 5 minutes later with a gun and enough ammunition to kill hundreds. This person could walk in ranting and foaming at the mouth, and under current law, the salesperson could not refuse him the gun. How does this make sense?

If the government has some extra money lying around to pay security guards, or to buy guns and ongoing training for teachers, I'd like them to send some of that our way so we don't have 20% staff reductions here next year.  Classes of 50+ at the high school level are not safe, but that's what we're facing.  Guess our government is only concerned about student safety when they have the opportunity to buy guns for teachers.

We are already asked to do TOO MUCH. We are teachers, surrogate mothers, nurses, counselors, referees, data analysts...

It is ALREADY emotionally draining. Now because you are unwilling to pass meaningful gun control or spend the money to put TRAINED armed security guards in schools, you want us to take on that role, as well. It’s too much.

A couple of days ago, my son was joking about buying a gun. I told him that yes, he could buy one and it would be entirely legal since he's an adult. He thought that it was a ridiculous thing because who would want someone like him walking around with a weapon? And yet...he could get one. He's legally blind. There are no restrictions on blind people buying guns, which seems kind of crazy as well.

Only in America is the obvious solution - don't sell guns to people who really shouldn't have guns - seen as crazy talk.

I find it odd that felons who want to regain their voting rights after completing their sentences have to jump through hoops (Why? Because it's 'too dangerous' to let them vote?) but we just made it easier for the mentally ill to purchase weapons. Why is someone voting considered dangerous enough to warrant taking action to stop it, but buying a weapon is considered perfectly reasonable?

I trust teachers to teach. I do not trust them to act appropriately with a gun in a crisis situation. As a parent, I am completely against it. Police officers train and train and train again to deal with these situations. Teachers do not.
I do not want guns in my schools, with the exception of law enforcement.

Bravo! 

It’s both absurd and disastrous on its face. I can’t take anyone defending it seriously.

But what teacher, all of whom have spent years learning how to best teach and nurture children, would want to put themselves in the middle of that situation? Not a single teacher that I personally know would ever be willing to do that. Not one, and I know a LOT of teachers all the way from pre-k through professor. I’m thinking it would be a pretty tough sell.

I suspect if this becomes some kind of mandatory thing, that teachers will leave in droves. I do not have a single teacher friend who is in favor of this.

imho, it's a ludicrous suggestion. 

more guns is schools in not the answer.