Mass shootings

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(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.

I think the issue is that many buy into the hyperbole. A suggestion that allowing trained educators that desire to discretely carry a weapon quickly morphs into every teacher is forced to walk around looking like Rambo.