There is no perfect solution to this but I think we should have armed security at schools. Enough armed security to be effective in repelling attacks like this. A big part of that is going to be making sure doors are locked once school starts so people can't just waltz onto a school campus and start spraying people. If teachers want to carry and they are trained and able to carry safely then fine. I don't think relying on teachers is the answer though. Their job is hard enough already and most of them just aren't the type. They aren't fighters. Pay the fighters to fight. Hire armed security. We do it everywhere else that has valuable things in it.
These nut jobs are looking for soft targets where they will face little to no opposition. Usually when someone starts shooting back at them they stop, flee, or shoot themselves in the head right there. They want soft targets, period. We can't continue to allow schools to be soft targets. When the loonies see that we are going to stand and fight they will go somewhere else. They are cowards.
I am usually leaning toward ensuring 2nd Amendment rights but this whole “arming the teachers” angle is riling me up. Stupid is the word:
1. It seems like just a way to avoid talking about the other aspects of the problem.
2. Above comment is correct, “teachers are just not the type”, Remember the old fashioned expression, “old maid school teacher.” Well, I know that’s not applicable any more but it’s still kind of applicable
3. If you give a financial incentive for the teacher to carry a gun, it’s going to do exactly what you don’t want it to do, give people who may have no aptitude but want extra income (many teachers) an incentive to get armed.
4. Dangerous to keep a firearm in your desk in a disorganized inner city type classroom. Students could get to it.
5. Impractical if the gun is locked up. Do you get to it in time? Some classrooms will have a gun but most won’t? The gun packing teacher will abandon his or her students and run down the hallway like a vigilante cop?
Individual school districts should have the right to do whatever they want. Maybe in Northern Michigan where everybody hunts it could work. But the President should shut up about it. He does not know what he’s talking about. And the federal government should definitely NOT fund incentives for teachers to be armed. SHEEESH!
Armed security guards are fine if the school district wants to invest in it. That’s their training and their job.
