Giving kids guns? No, that's generally a bad idea. It'd get stolen in a cinch. Considering the extremely narrow likelihood of a shooting happening in any given public or private school (1 in 100,000?), kids bringing guns would probably cause shootings to happen where they otherwise wouldn't, and we'd have a much bigger problem on our hands

If we're talking about arming them with pepper spray, I can understand that. My county code of conduct (and I believe the entire district) allows students to carry a 2 oz container of pepper spray. Nothing stops sexual harassment like a good bottle of mace. It's also a decent repellent against kidnapping, although I would not call it surefire.

They are not mature enough to handle the responsibility, and don't fully understand the repercussions of using the weapon.

I am all for guns rights for adults, but minors should not be able to use guns because they dont understand responsibility yet.

I believe in teaching a kid how to use and respect a gun at an early age... but carrying it... come on.

Nothing needs to be said.

If every child handle a gun then there will be more murder cases specially in schools.

I would say that every kid is not responsible enough to be trusted with guns in school. How would we ever know which kid comes from a bad home. We have many bad parents who would teach their kids to hate others for merely being Christians, etc. such as is going on in Arab nations.

I believe teachers & principles should most definitely have the right's to protect our children with guns.

Not wise at all. Children will be tempted to use a gun on a bully at school.