Mass shootings

[Belsnickel]

(02-23-2018, 07:11 PM)fredtoast Wrote: First of all "School security" and "gun control" are two totally separate issues.

It seems to me that many people are rejecting the arming of teachers because they think it is "giving in" on the issue of gun control. I agree that we should not force teachers to carry guns, but I still don't know how everyone can be against allowing teachers to carry guns to school if they want to. Teachers are supposed to be educated professionals, and I am sure they would have to be screened and trained before allowing them to carry at school.

And it has to be a secret. No one can know which teachers are armed. So it doesn't matter if none of them are armed. the threat of one of them being armed would keep schools from being such tempting "soft" targets.

Police have to train and qualify on their weapons on a regular basis. A trained shooter like a police officer has a 30% chance of hitting a moving target. I really don't expect us to include that type of firearms training into everything else a teacher has to deal with, so the idea of teachers trying to deal with one of those situations is one that concerns me. In addition to that, when law enforcement does arrive it could prove to be dangerous to have armed teachers on scene.

I got distracted while typing this and so lost my train of thought. Long story short, I can think of a number of reasons why arming teachers is not a great idea.