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It is a shocking indictment on any society if someone who has chosen a career helping students acquire knowledge has to carry a gun to protect themselves and their pupils.
I think it's a not so good idea to give teacher a gun without psychological test, because some teachers are not very mental healthy (in very rare cases) and they can abuse the gun.
I think it would be better to actually defend yourself incase the school shooter comes into the classroom, than just sitting there while your students get shot.
yes. I agree that if teachers have guns they can stop the school shootings. I feel this way for 2 reasons.
First, since teachers are educators they are considered to be learners too therefore they can be properly trained on how to responsibly use a firearm to protect themselves and their students. For instance, my Math teacher when I was in high school suffered the trauma of being attacked on the streets. So instead of letting the fear take her down, she learned how to responsibly use a firearm, trained for months at a firearm handling school. As a result, she is now confident that she can protect herself and put up a good fight if an instance she experiences being attacked on the streets again.
Secondly, teachers are valuable citizens of our society therefore they have the right to protect themselves and their lives because at the end of the day they have a family that loves them. Teachers' lives are precious, and losing them to a criminal is an incident that is totally devastating. In this situation, teachers cannot simply protect themselves that is why we lose them. After all, people with ill motives always choose to attack the vulnerable. Thus, the existence of educators that knows how to use a firearm responsibly will definitely deter people with bad and harmful intentions to others and will ultimately help to stop school shootings.
if teachers have guns they can stop the school shootings
You're so stupid I don't even know where or how to begin explaining it to you.
since teachers are educators they are considered to be learners too therefore they can be properly trained on how to responsibly use a firearm to protect themselves and their students.
If training people stopped them getting shot then obviously nobody would get shot, would they? It isn't rocket science.
teachers are valuable citizens of our society therefore they have the right to protect themselves and their lives because at the end of the day they have a family that loves them
Oh God I'm not even going to bother because you're just so stupid. There are millions of teachers and not all of them are good people. I watched plenty of my own teachers bully and hurt people.
I don’t think teachers should have a gun because it can be many accidents with a gun in a classroom. A weapon shouldn’t be in a room with many kids because kids play together in a classroom and the weapon could accidentally shoot and harm a child .
If teachers had guns, they could stop school shootings!?
Hello M:
Nahhh... If the COP who was assigned to patrol the halls of Oxford high school in Michigan couldn't stop the shooter, why do you think a teacher could have???
However, they can shoot at you anyways. Some maniacs just want to kill people and for those guns carried by teachers could stop them. The question is: aren't there other ways to achieve safety in schools!?
Firstly we must appreciate that many teachers would not wish to carry a firearm and of those who did there would be a significant number who would be paralysed with fear and not be able to use their personal protection weapon.
Then we must consider the strong probability that if there was an exchange of fire the stressed and nervous teacher would shoot members his/her class.
What must be recognized here is that the underlying social flaws which exist within our society must be addressed, and hopefully redressed.
But at least the teacher could protect all students in his class by having a gun. And maybe the teacher with a gun can stop the shooter from going on his journey
They maybe kill Kids on inadvertently when they trie to shout the amo runner. So i think it's a bad idea to give teachers a gun. It's can be god but maybe it is bad.