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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Teachers are not being paid to shoot intruders. It's not their job. If you want them to serve as bodyguards to their students then you need to pay them accordingly. Your taxes will go up, also accordingly. Maybe even enough that the state will need to impose a state income tax. Which of course will mean janitors and nurses and other non-teacher employees in those schools will also need a raise, because now some of their income is being sucked into taxes.
Giving teachers guns and requiring that they teach less, protect more, is not the answer.
The answer is not simple. But the solution would be to reduce the risk. To reduce the risk of a teacher ever having to decide whether or not to draw their gun on someone. A teacher shouldn't ever be held responsible for that. So how about reducing the risk that they would be.
The police, trained to do their jobs and protect the public, weren't able to prevent these shootings. Teachers should not be responsible to do what the police weren't able to do.
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That last sentence was very good at summing up the probably, majority opinion on teachers carrying GUNS in the classroom. I agree, but ONLY in an IDEAL world. I am sure that in Australia and other G-7 countries that there is no NEED for teachers to have GUNS. Unfortunately, the US is an OUTLIER in this respect (and NOT in a good way).
.........The US is saturated with too many GUNS. It IS a desperate situation that requires a DESPERATE answer. So, until US society changes to be more like the other 1st world countries, perhaps it will be necessary for the Principal and other volunteer teachers to ARM themselves. Schools should perhaps exaggerate how many teachers have volunteered to carry. Not the greatest solution, but maybe one that is necessary until people in the US evolve to a point where they refuse to try to solve their problems with GUNS.