If they want to and are not stupid.
Some teachers may be too irresponsible to have a weapon.
We even have FBI personnel who ‘lose’ or otherwise misplace their weapons, right?
As long as students are doped up on SSRIs.
They need to do a psych eval on every teacher that wants to carry a gun, to make sure they are stable. Many teachers are not.
No. Public education should be ended.
Dumbly-stated question. Instead: should some qualified, interested and trained teachers be allowed access to a gun in school?
Answer: absolutely.
The reason for the question being stated stupidly is to cause controversy. Some will answer “never,” while others will reply “absolutely.”
Certain ones that are trained and responsible is a no brainer. YES
How about an eval on the police officers who will respond and will almost certainly shoot a teacher or two by mistake?
Should radical lefties in general be carrying weapons while brainwashing captive kids?
Should teachers carry guns? No. That’s a foolish idea. If you doubt that, consider a school hallway during change of classes. It’s elbow-to-elbow. It would be way too easy for some nutty kid (or group of kids) to strip a teacher of his gun.
Should carefully chosen and trained teachers have access to guns? Sure. Just store those guns in safes bolted to the wall.
The question needs to be rephrased as a statement:
Schools should not interfere with qualified and vetted teachers and school staff who choose to carry firearms to protect their children.
BECAUSE WE ALREADY KNOW THE POLICE HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO PROTECT CHILDREN OR ANYONE ELSE!!!!!
Don’t expect the police to come to confront a gunman.
On the other hand, they will show up promptly if there’s a room full of dogs to put down.
If the kids carry so should the teachers
I am of the opinion that schools should require ALL teachers and staff to pass the same NCIS background check as they want citizens to pass in order to own a firearm.
Seeing as teachers are already poisoning the minds of children with destructive indoctrination and the vast majority of them would sooner abort their own kids than nurture them, the clear answer is ‘not on your life’.
PERMIT the teachers and designated staff to carry concealed weapons as a defensive measure in the event of a school being invaded and active shooter situation arises. The permit would be conditioned on, first, the WILLINGNESS to become an accomplished and knowledgeable defender against active shooters, and secondly on the necessary training to become an effective deterrent to such invasions.
This is a backup plan for when the local law enforcement officer, who may or may not be on campus, is unable to respond in a timely manner, and absolutely a stopgap measure until competent civil authority arrives.
As a further measure, the teaching of ALL school children, in an age-appropriate way, about the care, identification, purposes, and effects of gun usage, beginning in the primary grades, and proceeding to more and better defined instruction, so that by the eighth grade or so, there are students who are actually capable of correctly handling, maintaining, storing and using guns, ranging from pistols up to light caliber rifles and/or shotguns, with drills and training continued into the graduation from high school, when proficiency with firearms, or a suitable equivalent program, is a prerequisite for a diploma. Certain exceptions may have to be made to accommodate those who are unable to participate in this program.
Now of course, there are some few who, by inclination or simply ineptness and total lack of aptitude for handling of guns, should be, must be, excused from this course of training, and as an alternative, be given a comprehensive course in means to evade, avoid, escape, or confront an active shooter, should the situation arise, and stand some fair chance of surviving the encounter. These students would have to have a passing grade on this course, offered as an alternative to the firearms training described above.
At the very least, potential troublemakers will be identified and possibly weeded out before they reach a critical point, and the others will not be totally defenseless.
Yes. Next question.
JoMa
The 2nd Amendment was intended to give citizens the right to carry a gun - whether they are at home, out shopping, at the movies, in a restaurant, or at work.
So yes, if teachers wish to exercise their 2nd amendment rights, the school should not be allowed to stop them - in fact, they should pay them extra for doing so.
Regarding all the caveats about training, psychological evaluations, and locking the guns in safes - that is BS.
Citizens who choose to exercise their 2nd amendment right to legally carry a firearm tend to be well above average in responsibility and psychological stability.
Despite the Leftist propaganda to the contrary, all the legal gun owners I know are highly responsible individuals - not careless wackos. They are hunters, farmers, collectors, target shooters, ex military, ex LE - they tend to take their responsibility as gun owners very seriously.
Some of these legal gun owners happen to be teachers, and carrying a firearm on the job would only make the schools safer. The idea that a citizen gun owner would need to be specially vetted in order to carry at a school is preposterous, and locking up their guns in wall safes would just be stupid.
The reality is that there would likely only be a few teachers in each school who wished to carry. Most likely, nobody would even know which teachers had a weapon. But the mere knowledge that some teachers may be carrying would be a huge deterrent to school shootings.
Perpetrators of mass shootings at schools, movie theaters, concert halls and night clubs are typically cowards who know they are walking into a gun free zone where they can slaughter unarmed innocents unapposed - that has to change.
Anybody who wants to should carry.