Armed teachers? Classroom insanity

Let each of them do their job independent of each other.

Though Appomattox County Sheriff Barry Letterman believes the proposal should not be entirely dismissed, he said arming teachers would prove to be impractical.

A National Center for Education Statistics survey shows that 76 percent of public school teachers are women.

In fact, arming teachers may create more danger for students. The other four or five bullets would hit something or someone else.

Why might they miss the target?

The second issue is the individuals who the guns will be administered to. American citizens have the right to bear arms and protect themselves and of course this code of protection should be extended to the classroom – but surely students would be safer if guns were taken out of the hands of potential perpetrators, not placed directly into them? They already know about weapons and the gun range. “Many lives could have been saved that were lost before the police got there”. They engaged in regular rehearsals in an attempt to address these concerns.

Instead of arming teachers with weapons, a few educators expressed their need for actual school supplies like pens and dry-erase erasers. The majority of shooters at high school and middle school incidents are current students.

“He could tell it was the teacher’s fault”, the student said. At least some of them would have psychological problems if only by the law of averages.

In an article titled “HARSH REALITY: Police Are Not Highly Trained Firearms Experts” and dated June 2, 2016, Mike McDaniel argues for better training of law enforcement officers (his article has nothing to do with arming teachers). “If you roll back time and see what happened in Florida, if that teacher or if any of the teachers or coaches would have had a gun, what might have happened would have been minimized so that 17 children wouldn’t have died”. “‘Trump wants teachers to have guns'”.

Jeffrey A. Ward: “A bad guy with a gun is always stopped by a good guy with a gun”.

I now own three handguns, and maintain a concealed carry permit.

Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Everyone victimized – directly or indirectly – by mass shootings deserve real solutions. In an Federal Bureau of Investigation study of 160 active shooter incidents that Federal Bureau of Investigation identified between 2000 and 2013, 27 – or about 17 percent – occurred at elementary, middle and high schools.

“We’re not trained professionals for that”, he said, and to become adept in the ways of handling something like a school shooting falls within another career category entirely.

Republican state Sen. Scott Martin of Martic Township is co-sponsor of Pennsylvania Senate Bill 383, which would give school boards the option of giving trained school personnel – not just teachers – access to firearms. We would see an increase in teacher suicides the moment we put the weapon in their hand. It is nothing short of a unsafe delusion to believe that the presence of a few more guns in a school will frighten away young men (it’s always a he) who enter schools with the intent to kill hordes of students and teachers. Ironically the school resource officer (deputy) stood outside and so did 3 of his fellow deputies. Many times the shooter is armed with military-grade firepower such as the AR-15, and we are asking teachers to confront them with handguns.