People like you are the problem. How many people are going to be killed before the liberal idiots realize that a no gun sign will never stop a dearranged or criminal person! @Lancer, @Captain_Feelgood

Imagine this scenario ....suppose teachers are armed.....what happens when police arrive and are looking for an armed perpetrator and here are all these people with guns....how do officers tell who is the so-called "good guy" with the gun and who is the "bad guy"?
I think we need to look more into what drives these people to do killings. Because it is usually buried in the news accounts that the first people killed are the perpetrator's family member/s....most often a wife. So we need to be looking at the drivers of domestic violence. May be described as toxically violent entitled angry males who feel thwarted? Thoughts?

Anyone asking why now? why not in the 20s,30s,40s,50s.60s.

Ya think?

Teachers definitely didn't sign up for combat, so I agree.

I totally agree. I'm a veteran too (Army).

I was shot , but not officially in combat. My extensive repetitive "I can do it blindfolded in my sleep" training enabled me to shoot back and take lives. It also took over 20 years of my own with the resulting survivors guilt and PTSD. Arming anyone unless they are trained almost every day of the responsibility, safety, marksmanship, and consequences/baggage/PTSD and resulting life changing experience involved in taking another life is asinine! Teachers are not police officers or soldiers and have no business playing that role. The near pornographic relationship we have with guns in this country is a true Mental Illness.

As a vet, a gun oner and former hunter, and a retired educator, I totally agree. Only a fool would recommend the arming of teachers.

100% one of the dumbest ideas going.

I'm a vet of years ago and I was never in combat. I traveled and served in the European theater and can certainly agree with you. Arming teachers is just asking for more people to get shot and will cause the confusion that allows police who come into the scene to do so. Cheap assed Republicans think they have a solution. If this is what they want then just put more police in schools and hire them just for security. They would have daily meetings, know each other, and each take care of and watch certain areas.

As a teacher, I agree

Yeah. It is. It should be a no brainer that just giving people more guns is the most backwards "solution". Ever

First, and foremost thank you for your service! I enlisted in 2007. I tried to re-enlist recently, but can't pass the MEPS due to medical problems. Soldiers are trained to protect people. Teachers aren't. They are paid to TEACH! My Father served from 1965-1971. I was three years old when I was taught how to fire a rifle. No, not a Davy Crockett story. It was a Marlin single shot . 22 LR rifle. Here's a good idea... how about we give homeless vets a JOB. They are already trained!

I so agree with that. They are teachers, their degrees are in education not law enforcement. There has already been a report of an accidents when a teacher’s weapon was discharged in a classroom.

I notice that no one is talking about more nuclear armed countries to make the world a safer place. Why would that be?

The gun trouble in America is truly concerning. I looked up,after about two months after the Orlando shooting, and there had been 65 other events classified as mass shootings in the states... Why do people keep thinking more guns will bring safety?

Well, I've been shot in combat, and I must respectfully disagree with the generality of this.
I'd suggest that if a teacher or school administrator is comfortable with carrying a sidearm, and is proved competent to do so, then they should be allowed to.

I work in education as a therapist, so on any given day I see children from under 3 to 22. I have to be mobile, since I have to work in many different rooms. I'd like to know how and where I'm supposed to keep a weapon secure, focus on the kid in front of me, and keep a firearm out of the hands of any of the several young men and women I work with who are larger and stronger than I am!

It is that simple people!!!!

What is the answer?
I have no idea

I am a retired cop and also a veteran and I agree with you.
Firearm definitely should not be in schools.

As a vet who has had interface with trained dogs, I can assure you that a well trained dog can identify a hazard such as a gun and will point it out! And is totally safe in all environments. We had a well trained dog chase an officer testing our outer defenses up a tree and sit there waiting for the light of day and him to be identified! The missile defense world used them without incident for years. A bullet fired with good intentions can hit the intended target pass through and take out an individual quite a ways away from the intended target! That is also something not being considered in arming anyone in a class room environment. I do feel that a well trained dog is the best option!

I am a teacher,and I totally agree.

Thank you for your service, Sister Veteran...I agree 100% with you on this...DANGEROUS Indeed!!!!

I think we knew that too I think the only person who doesnt know it is Donald - Ban guns worked for us in Scotland and England