Yes and Yes!
Why can’t my 16 yr old son take my Ruger 45 semi auto hand gun to school? He is trained to shot it and my other guns and is quite a good marksman. He attends a private Christian school. I asked the headmaster to allow the teachers that want to to be armed. The headmaster said it was against North Carolina state law for guns in school zones. I replied that AII states in part that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. He had no reply.
I don't think many teachers would want the responsibility, they are way overloaded already with all the social engineering that is supposed to be accomplished in the home. Maybe some parental accountability is more in order than armed teachers in our schools.
” and we’re going to expect teachers to protect our children with what?”
The answer is simple and obvious. Through our educational system, we’ve already empowered our children to defend themselves, using the skills they’ve been taught in sensitivity, tolerance and the unquestioned embracing of alternative lifestyles. What more do they need?
Looking at the big picture, education in the US is about changing society, forget the three R’s. If a lone lunatic happens to get a firearm into a school undetected, and manages to eliminate a few students, that is just one school out of thousands and they are, after all only a few students. Compared to the numbers of useful citizens being created through public education, these few students are just a small sacrifice society can certainly afford to accept in the quest for the larger goal.
And, the loss of these students through the immoral proliferation of firearms use can be exploited for the larger good. The grieving parents can turn to the many fine government support programs to help cope with the situation. And, as far as their loss of a tax-deduction, the new practice of unlimited economic stimuli for every season will help them recover financially.
So, it’s all win-win.