The teacher who wants to carry a gun is an idiot. I believe any teacher that totes a gun promotes it as well..

Question

It is a teachers duty to conduct themselves in a manner that is respectable at all times. If you decide to tote a gun to school how could you possibly promote positivity when you go to work everyday thinking this is the day that you might have to use your pistol. You are coming to work in combat mode not ready to teach. It's time for you to find another job because this is not the job for you anymore. In the process of your irrational thinking you are endangering our childrens lives because what if your pant's or skirt isn't tight enough to hold your pistol and it drops to the floor and go off and shoot someones child in the chest, what if you leave it in your desk and forget to lock it one day. Guns are not a place for school, school is the second safetest place to be in the world with your home considered the most safe. Get yourself another job, school is not a battle ground so you should not be preparing for one. What's your take on this issue?

Coy,

I'm certainly not a waste of time in fact this is an issue that needs to be debated. I respect all point of views but I personally don't think a teacher should have to tote a gun. In making your points also consider that gun rages happen in grocery stores, and all places of employment, were not trying to take this thing back to the wild, wild west.

Answer 1

So what happens when the student KNOWS the teacher has the gun? Guess who the first person I'D shoot is. Yeah the TEACHER. THE ARMED PERSON, THAT I KNOW IS ARMED. What we need to do is make sure we keep ALL-GUNS out of school. I agree with the bumper sticker I used to see about If they were as worried about keeping guns out of school as they were the Bible our schools would be a lot safer. If a teacher was carrying a taser then that may be another argument. They would be just as able to stop most people. As to stopping school shootings, why do you people keep acting like there are yearly massacres that need stopped? Oh it could have stopped things like Columbine and Virgina Tech. So events that were EIGHT YEARS APART is what we are going on as the proof we need this? I could rant and rave all day, but I feel my essential point it already out.

One more thing. I'm an armed gun man. Someone has a gun and is after me. I take a HUMAN SHIELD HOSTAGE. Are you going to shoot that INNOCENT PERSON? Not many would, and TEACHERS AREN'T SHARPSHOOTERS. So you risk the teacher killing an innocent person in the crossfire of trying to stop the ORIGINAL shooter. Yeah I'd want that on MY head as a teacher.

Answer 2

If you're worried that the average teacher is going to shoot Little Johnny for not doing his homework, I'd say your school district has bigger problems than the obvious. A gun is a simple tool, and it does nothing unless the person carrying it puts it to use. Saying it's a step back because of some potential harm would be more appropriate if used on something more dangerous, like a set of car keys. It's really a non-issue, except that on the rare occasion when you need a handgun, you need it very badly, and immediately. I just don't see any real downside to the allowance, though I doubt many teachers will actually carry a gun.

Answer 3

I could not disagree with you any more. Unfortunately, many schools are in fact battlegrounds. There is nothing irrational about their thinking. If a teacher feels the need to carry a sidearm I am in full support. I would maybe suggest some special training or something along those lines to gain a special license but teachers these days risk their lives walking into the doors of many schools.

It is not the fault of teachers that they work in a combat zone, it is the result of a lack of funding and poor parenting. On the contrary to your point about the mind set brought on by carrying a weapon, I believe it would improve their ability to teach rather than hurt it given that they feel a certain degree of security.

I don't know how old you are or where you went to school, but this is not just an inner city, urban issue any more. The problem is prevalent almost everywhere.

Answer 4

For my personal opinion, yes its its not professional for you to have a gun in school and or in churches. you should only if you're certified , and everyone has the right to bear arms, with a license right? what I'm saying is that most people let their guards down and too many school incidents have been happenning, and you are wrong about the fact that school is a safe place. imagine a reserve police officer whose also a teacher in a school ( because of you called him an idiot) left his gun at home. coincidentally that day a psycho ravaged the school with a guns with large amounts of ammo.he would kill a lot of students and this particular teacher could not protect himself and his students from getting killed.only if he had his gun he would have shot him with well aimed shots just like what he was trained to. but no lots of people died and you don't give a crap. so please don't respond back because you are a waste of time. thank you.

Answer 5

O.K. then, how about this: We'll have you be an unarmed teacher in a school full of students carrying weapons of all sorts and see how long you hold to your idealistic fantasy.

This isn't the 1950's anymore; kids will and do find ways to get guns and get them past whatever security measures are out there, so the only thing not having a gun is going to do for a teacher is for them to be another school shooting statistic. I believe teachers SHOULD have guns because gun laws have never stopped a school shooting, and arming teachers is a necessary step forward.

Answer 6

As a substitute teacher I'm offended. I think all teachers ( and subs) should be allowed to carry a gun. Too many students are violent assholes w/weapons. If a teacher had had a gun at Columbine and Virginia Tech then fewer people would've been killed b/c a teacher could've shot the jerks.

Schools are battlegrounds. I know from being on campuses for 3 yrs.

Answer 7

i agree completely. i went to DC public schools so you can be damn sure that I've seen my share of violence in schools. if teachers have guns in an easily accessible place for them guess what's gonna happen? it's gonna get stolen. at the school i went to they had a hard time not getting security cameras stolen. what do you think a pissed off disturbed kid is gonna do if he knows all he has to do to get a gun is go up, pretend to ask his forty plus year old teacher a questing, punch her in the face and open a drawer to arm himself?

Answer 8

True. True and true. But one factor cancels out some of the high-minded and idealistic point you make: Bottomline, a teacher must sometimes protect himself against very dangerous and brutal students. I have seen serious injuries to teachers and terroristic threatening by students who would be every inch capable of killing a teacher.

What are we to do?

Answer 9

I think that if someone legitimate had a gun in the many cases in schools were shooters go on shooting sprees I lot less innocent people would have not been killed.

Answer 10

Haven't been to school lately, have you? I wouldn't walk into any average middle or high school without a gun myself so I can't blame teachers for wanting to defend themselves. If there had been guns in the teacher's desks, do you think some of these slaughters with Columbine would have happened?