Should Arming Teachers Have Guns

Teachers should not be allowed to carry a concealed weapon in school even if it is registered and the teacher has had training with firearms. However, with a recent jump in school shootings many officials are debating implementing armed teachers. If educators carry firearms, schools will no longer be a safe trusted place to learn, firearms and their liabilities would be a great cost to the school, and it would be easy access for someone, namely the students, to steal the weapons.

There are three main advantages for allowing teachers to carry a concealed weapon. The three advantages are casualties will be reduced if you could take down the shooter quickly before the shooter kills any more people,

There are many reasons that teachers should not carry firearms. One reason is that children like to get their hands on absolutely everything, especially children who are younger. Many children love to allow their imaginations to run wild. They like to search for

There are two main opinions on equipping teachers with firearms. The problem is not with the polarization of these views, but the lack of willingness to compromise. Polarization of two ideas creates an inability to solve the problem. The National Rifle Association’s National School Shield is an uncompromising policy requiring a teacher to carry or possess a firearm (Pérez, 2017). The other side though is

But as in every argument there are very few reason to not be armed, but as in this situation the why’s weight out the why not’s. The way teachers, right now, are acting when a shooter comes in, is cowardly. The students are more willing to risk their lives to save their friends, that is true courage. But the student is unarmed, literally bringing a fist to a gun fight, if the teacher was armed that could change the game of how the shooting could play out. Either the teacher wins fighting hard, or the teacher dies cowardly. Teachers should be armed for the sake of themselves, piers, and students. Would you rather die fighting hard, or die coward

The first reason teachers and administrators should be able to carry guns is because they are the first responder, “Southland sits about 15 miles from the nearest law-enforcement agencies, and the first response time for any emergency can be 25 minutes, superintendent Miller said” (Shah, 2013, para.16). With protection miles away, it heightens the children's risk for injury or death. If an adult in the building can act faster, they can provide protection. Allow the school staff to have a gun will increase students safety.

So yes, legally teachers have the right to be armed if their school board agrees with it and certifies. But why would they want to arm them? Yes, to protect our students but there is just so much that would cause issues. Law enforcement only has an 18% accuracy rating when the opposite opponent is firing back according to the RAND Corporation’s evaluation of the New York Police department. It shows that even a highly trained professional law enforcement officer has trouble shooting a suspect in highly stressful

Should teachers with concealed carry weapons permits be allowed to carry a firearm on school grounds? How would a teacher help to stop or prevent a school shooting? Teachers carrying a weapon would not only increase their safety and their sense of security. It would also increase the safety of students.

Do you want your kids in school with guns? The debate over arming teachers has been above and beyond what everyone thought how big it would be. Many believe that arming teachers is one of the best things to do about the school shooting situations. But why? That’s just adding another armed person into the situation. And that is why i’m here, to help you understand why this is the wrong decision for this country.

Is arming teachers a productive solution against future school shootings? Teachers carrying guns in school is currently a controversial issue in America, especially after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed seventeen people on February 14th, 2018. Many people firmly encourage the idea that teachers should be allowed to bring guns to school because teachers can protect students if a shooting happens on-campus. Nevertheless, a lot of people wrestle with the idea of armed educators. Specifically, a strong disagreement from many teachers is because teachers’ duty is to educate students, and teachers are not police officers. Another opposition from students is they believe that “arming teachers

Teachers should not carry concealed weapons because of the dangers that it can cause to the school’s safety. First of all, it would be extremely dangerous for teachers to be firing weapons in the classroom. These are risky, costly, knee-jerky

“The answer to gun violence is not to arm teachers but rather to reduce accessibility to guns, particularly large capacity, semi-automatic weapons such as the AR-15. We cannot aim simply to “harden” schools and weaponize faculty. Bulletproof windows, metal detectors, and teachers with concealed weapons are illusions of safety.” (Source 3). Instead of focusing on how we should be protecting and defending schools, we need to think about why we are having to make all of these additions in the first

To begin, I am a student. I am a student that feels this should be an extra safety precaution at ours schools to help parents and other students feel safer. How would you feel to get a call from your child’s school telling you that your child has been shot in a school shooting? How would you feel as a student to know that one of your, innocent, fellow peers might die at the hands of someone that they didn’t know? I can tell you now I know I would be very upset and feel very unsafe. As a high school student life is very stressful. From exams, to friends, to people you don’t particularly get along with, life is very stressful, we don’t need to be worried about someone coming to hurt us or our peers. This is why I believe all teachers should be armed at school.

Imagine a shoot shooter coming into your school and your teacher wasn't able to protect you. Teachers should be armed because teacher safety and student safety. Between 2013-15 , everytown identified 160 school shootings across 38 states. 53 percent of the identified shootings took place at k-12 schools , and 47 percent at colleges or universities. In just 2018 , there has been 18 school shootings , and we are only into the second month. And through all this , the teachers weren't able to protect themselves.

All teachers should not be armed with hand guns at school. It increases violence and guns will not improve our safety. When you take your child to school, do you want them to be surrounded by dangerous weapons? Of course not, that why teachers shouldn’t be armed with handguns. Recently, a man escaped form prison and shot up a series of students and teachers.