Armed Teachers in Schools

[mmckee1952]

I heard Mark Walters on Armed American radio last month and he got me to thinking, what if we were to arm the teachers who would like to be armed to protect the children they have enroled there.
The past few years we've seen a increase in the amount of killings at schools were there is no protection at all. How meny of you take your children to school and go to there school to collect them during schools hours and there is no protection, after you sign in at the office and get your hall pass, you can rome about the school unmolested. This I feel leaves a really big area this any possibilty to do anything you want. The metal dectors can be bypassed, a back door can be opened to allow someone with in without anyone knowing about it.
I know a lot of you think "this wouldn't happen at my childs school" but I bet a lot of the parents of the schools of the past few months would have said the very same thing.
Train the teachers and admistrative staff who want to protect there students just like a policeman is trained, you eather take the course and pass or you don't pass the course and don't carry a gun.
Do you fell a little bit safer when flying knowing there's an armed pilot and a US Air Marshal on the flight with you, or would you prefer to go back to Sept 11?
I had to think about this a lot before I sent this and after awhile I thought of my grandchildren and I sure wouldn't want to go to there funerals
if there was solution to the problem.
I plan to go to the next metting of the school board and submit this proposal and see how it's recieved.
Think about this idea and if there's some like thinking out there, think about going to your school board and ask them about this idea.

 

[eagleeyes]

i think any law abiding adult should carry even teachers at schools and universities

 

[AppliedPerspective]

Thinking back to my own schooling, I can think of maybe 3 teachers I had, tops, who would have ever even consider carrying a gun (outside of a deer stand). The vast majority of them would throw a hissy fit if you even tried to get them to touch one. Where do you think all these young people became brainwashed liberals in the first place?

 

[kelcarry]

i think any law abiding adult should carry even teachers at schools and universities

I agree with eagle. This is not a "teacher" thing, this is a 2A thing. You start with teachers--am I suppose to pay for the firearm and training? Am I suppose to give teachers some more "time off" for initial training and twice a month target shooting? Single out one group and in this asylum we call the US something will get screwed up royally.

 

[Rocketgeezer]

If a teacher wants to be armed, they should allowed to, but it should not be a reqiurerment, and the teach should cover training and gun cost's

 

[wolf_fire]

I am a veteran, I am a teacher, and I am a sheriff's reserve deputy. The most unsafe place I am in any given day is at the school. In my 13 years of being a teacher I've been privy to four school shootings and five student deaths as a result of them. As a sheriff's deputy I've been involved in no shootings. As a veteran I was involved in no shootings.

However, I'm stricken from being able to defend the children in my charge and myself in the most hostile area I've worked in.

I would wholeheartedly sign up for any and all training to be able to conceal carry in school, even though I shouldn't have to.

 

[the dark]

i think any law abiding adult should carry even teachers at schools and universities

I agree with eagle. This is not a "teacher" thing, this is a 2A thing. You start with teachers--am I suppose to pay for the firearm and training? Am I suppose to give teachers some more "time off" for initial training and twice a month target shooting? Single out one group and in this asylum we call the US something will get screwed up royally.

So melodramatic. Of course it's not a teacher thing, but in this case it is those of us who are teachers who are being denied our right to self-protection. No, keep your money and your precious time...I'm a veteran, gun owner, and well-trained...just let me carry the damned thing on campus.

 

[wolf_fire]

I agree with eagle. This is not a "teacher" thing, this is a 2A thing. You start with teachers--am I suppose to pay for the firearm and training? Am I suppose to give teachers some more "time off" for initial training and twice a month target shooting? Single out one group and in this asylum we call the US something will get screwed up royally.

Wow, you came up with a whole lot of assumptions there. Who said anything about giving the teachers time off or paying for their training? I teach and I go to the range every couple of weeks or so now on my own dime. So sign me up for whatever training would be necessary, let me do it (even if its on my own dime) and let me protect myself and the children I am charged with.

The problem is that the teachers have already been singled out and are NOT allowed to defend themselves. Get rid of the restriction that is unconstitutional.

 

[PestControl02]

I think the entire 6th or 7th grade school year should be nothing but firearm & Constitution training, 100% mandatory for all American children..at age 21, all non-criminals should be required to carry a firearm.
so yeah, I think it would be a great idea for teachers to carry

 

[BC1]

This will never be allowed. The bulk of teachers are liberal leaning. In most states it's not up to the school district, it would require a change to state law.

 

[mrstoelke]

As a teacher, I have been thinking the same thing for years. Criminals are going to bring guns wherever they please, so why are law abiding citizens restricted? It seems like they should at least allow those with concealed carry permits carry in schools. That way there is no burden on taxpayers, and the liberal teachers don't even have to know you're carrying. Imagine how many lives might have been preserved if there was even one teacher carrying in those schools where shootings have occurred. It seems like it would make people think twice about attempting a shooting at a school in the first place if they knew there was a possibility that teachers were packing.

 

[sdgw]

My o my, how the times have changed. Back in 78-79 i had a teacher that cleaned his .357 every time we had a test. He was also a deputy sheriff in that small Kansas town

 

[Rhino]

Thinking back to my own schooling, I can think of maybe 3 teachers I had, tops, who would have ever even consider carrying a gun (outside of a deer stand). The vast majority of them would throw a hissy fit if you even tried to get them to touch one.....

Don't be so sure. My wife taught for years and nobody even remotely suspected she was a firearm owner until she corrected someone on a fact about Glocks one day and they asked her how she knew. It was because she owned one. Jaws hit the floor. So don't assume you know which teachers would or would not have supported the carrying of guns. Realistically it shouldn't have been such a shock to them because they knew she's retired military, but I guess they just didn't consider her 'the type' in their eyes, and they're too naive to know that there is no type. They still don't know she has a concealed carry license.

 

[DLeeHarley]

I think the entire 6th or 7th grade school year should be nothing but firearm & Constitution training, 100% mandatory for all American children..at age 21, all non-criminals should be required to carry a firearm.
so yeah, I think it would be a great idea for teachers to carry

Now I agree with most of the posters here but to require ALL non-criminals to carry? I don't know about you but look around you sometime as your out among the people, a hell of a lot of them shouldn't be allowed to look at a weapon much less than carry one.

 

[kelcarry]

Wow, you came up with a whole lot of assumptions there. Who said anything about giving the teachers time off or paying for their training? I teach and I go to the range every couple of weeks or so now on my own dime. So sign me up for whatever training would be necessary, let me do it (even if its on my own dime) and let me protect myself and the children I am charged with.

The problem is that the teachers have already been singled out and are NOT allowed to defend themselves. Get rid of the restriction that is unconstitutional.

If you are teacher than try and read and comprehend what I wrote. I am all for 2A and what you say. Trouble is that when you start to single out, particularly teachers and their goddamn union, I can see abuse up the kazoo. Your comment is exactly what I expected---you take it personal and an attack. I agree with you for heavens sake. Protect yourself and your students and do it like the rest of us have to--on your dime and your time.

 

[kelcarry]

So melodramatic. Of course it's not a teacher thing, but in this case it is those of us who are teachers who are being denied our right to self-protection. No, keep your money and your precious time...I'm a veteran, gun owner, and well-trained...just let me carry the damned thing on campus.

Another reply from a teacher who cannot even read what I wrote. I agree with you--just get your 2A---just don't have your union etal make this into another cause-celeb with hours and dollars from my tax money and special exceptions to allow you walk around in a school when I cannot. I can already see the need for all that "special training" etal because of your "special circumstances" in the school.

 

[mmckee1952]

I just Googled the topic "Armed Teachers in Schools". There are quite a few items there to view and there is some schools that allow just that. All I know is, if there were armed teachers in the schools during the past few years, a whole lot of children world still alive to show for it.You don't carry to be a man you carry because you are a man, insert woman where needed.

 

[The_Outlaw]

i think any law abiding adult should carry even teachers at schools and universities

Exactly right on!
Every 'law abiding' adult should be allowed to conceal carry in these places i.m.h.o.

 

[PestControl02]

Now I agree with most of the posters here but to require ALL non-criminals to carry? I don't know about you but look around you sometime as your out among the people, a hell of a lot of them shouldn't be allowed to look at a weapon much less than carry one.

Maybe most of the uneducated people of today shouldn't be allowed to carry..but, consider if they had spent the entire 7th grade learning about proper handling, cleaning & safe use of firearms (pistol & rifle)...and learned about their Constitutional right/duty to be armed for defense of themselves and others..and these lessons were supported and encouraged by their parents.
Now we're talking about a completely different society, one that respects firearms instead of fearing them. Maybe it's not such a radical idea.

 

[Chief1297]

God bless our teachers as it is something I couldnt do. If I was one, I would insist on being armed. Probably good I am not one.