well, it would all have to depend.

1. is it secure where only the teacher can get to it?

2. has the teacher been checked (psych, crimes, etc.)

3. what kind of school is it?

with things like Columbine and VT, it's obvious that a gun in the right hands can save many lives from a gun in the wrong hands, but we have to make sure it doesn't lead to something worse.

I beleave this is a great idea. Think of the VA Tech Shooting, I was their, i know that if the professor i was with had gun, i would have felt a whole lot safer and the room would have been calmer. However, i do beleave that every teacher carrying a gun must have a concealed weapons permit (obvious). Compare it to this, If a police man is to walk into a school he isn't required to disarm himself. In police training you take classes equivalent to those of a Concealed weapons permit. And just becouse the police man is employed by the state means nothing. In essence the teacher is equivalent to the police man.

I think that providing teachers with a mechanism to defend themselves is a good idea, as long as they are properly trained and the weapon is properly secured. Given the right precautions are taken, this could help prevent or mitigate a lot of the tragedies that have taken place on school campuses in the past several years.

Teachers need protection. Except for that Hitler teacher.

There could be additional courses and training required for teachers on top of the normal permit process. They are in a situational setting that would require different awareness. Any argument against it is moot, anyway, as the Second Ammendment should prevent any sniveling from cowards. Just think how low the death tolls could have been from any school incident that's happened in that last 20 years. Carrying a gun and being trained to properly and safely use it would make a teacher more respected and a better person as well.

get teachers armed ??????

just imagine a massmurderer attack in a school with armed teachers. Within seconds the murderer is in the classroom doing his evil work. No time for the teacher to get the weapon from a save and locked place.

Or the teacher has to wear the weapon at his body. He needs free and immideate access within seconds. But that means permanent unsafety to the students and the teacher. For example, because the teacher is in a terrible bad mood or is getting psychotic or is in rage ororor

From a european point of view it is an absurd and obscene debate to arm teachers.

How much anxiety must be in the american society that so many people are in such a desperately need for deadly weapons? How is it possible that people declare the campus of a school or a university to a battlezone? Thats just pervert.

The easier the access to weapons the higher is the chance that wrong people get one.

The more widespread weapons are the higher the chance that normal conflicts between ordinary people are not solved by words or fists but by deadly bulls.

Its just that we as europeans don´t understand why the americans doesn´t see what´s obvious: With weapons life is more dangerous, without weapons life is less dangereous. Without weapons the children of newton and their teachers would be alive celebrating christmas with ther families and so on.

In my view Safety und Security are very important values. For my neighbourhood, for the city where i live and for the country too.

But my expierence is that Safety and Security are not based on weapons but on social stability, access to basic human needs (food, water, housing, health insurance) and moral values.

Just look to europe. In many european countries its not allowed to own a weapon. With a few exceptions. The numbers of shootings and massmurderings are very very low. And the europeans are NOT better than the americans. There is just one reason why our shooting-rates are lower: For average people it is very very difficult to get in possession of a weapon. There is no legal market, there a high restrictions which make it nearly impossible for a private person to buy a weapon, except hunters and some sportsmen.

And therefore the probability for a person with actual mental health problems or low intelligence or without empathy oder with too much testosteron is very low.

Sorry for the mistakes.

alex