Armed Teachers Would Make Schools As Safe As Armed Cops

Townhall.com ^ | January 7, 2019 | Carl Jackson

[Tuketu]

USE TRAINED DOGS! No AH will come in with a gun or bomb, b/c they will be sniffed out and change their mind and underwear as soon as the dog snarled. Only thing scarier is racking a round into a shotgun, IMHO.

[caww]

Just let the farm boys carry their rifles in their trucks like they did in the years gone by...and open a class on gun safety. That would be enough to make a wannabe shooter think twice.

[Does so]

Require concealed carry permit and an annual tactical class to carry on campus.

Require concealed carry of a Glock holster.

Can be used as a purse or Glock, depending on the teacher's inclinations.

[TMN78247]

That tactic works WELL for a lot of Texas rural schools.

Otoh, MOST of our ISD in Texas have school district police, who are trained at least as well as the city/county officers.
(All peace officers here are STATE officers, who are certified by TCLOSE.)

Fwiw, I’m a Presiding Election Judge & on election days, I can carry concealed at my assigned polling place. - I don’t, as my precincts are on HS campuses that have police officers & those LEOs are always nearby & help us Election Officials to keep the peace.
(My “secret” is that I always bring coffee & have “goodies” available for the EO/LEO & our voters, too.)

Yours, TMN78247

[snoringbear]

““They believe guns are better off left in the hands of trained professionals such as cops...””

Hopefully, the gal in the pic with her thumb and forefinger up on the slide will be shown the correct method to grip a pistol....

[GingisK]

But what about students ganging up to take the weapon from a teacher? Think “inner city kids”.

[Retain Mike]

As I said, "Concealed carry means only the principal knows. Post a sign saying, “This is not a gun free zone. Members of the faculty and staff may be armed”. Uncertainty has a great deterrent effect".

The students should never know where the pistols are and who has them.

[TMN78247]

GOOD PLAN.

Yours, TMN78247

[GingisK]

Do you really think that a concealed weapon shows no tell-tale whatsoever, always? It would have to be tiny weapon indeed.

Oh, and I'm merely relating what has occurred to policymakers.

[Retain Mike]

My younger son is a federal police officer. His cousin has a company teaching defensive handling of firearms. Both regularly carry concealed pistols more substantial than the .380 you can fit in the palm of a hand. You would never suspect they are armed, because they take seriously the word “concealed”.

[GingisK]

That is pretty cool. I pack a Kimber .45 ACP inside the waist band. Most people do not notice it. Cops can usually tell someone is packing just from the body language. Apparently the drawing arm does not swing as freely as the other.

I still can't carry at school; and, I don't think they will ever allow it. We do now have six LEOs at school rather than one. They are very large men and each pack two Glocks that can be seen.