as a teacher, i would say this is the most assinine adea ever. how about you arm the schools with social workers and classroom aides? How about eleiminate standardized testing? Better yet, let's get rid of Pearson, the megaconglomerate that controls WAY to much. Also let's throw Betsy DeVos under a bus and maybe let a teacher be Secretery of Education. I could go on and on and on but I have a lot of grading to do, you know work that teachers do at home!

Its absurd .More guns in the school can lead to more violence . The gun can be stolen by a student or used by the teacher inappropriately.

Awful-worst idea ever

I am a teacher and i think this is a preposterous idea .Giving more guns to more people is counterproductive. There are plenty of teachers that should not be in the vicinity of a gun.

I have a concealed carry licence. The worst case senereo that I can think of is to be a teacher,, and carry in a school. I would hate to be disarmed by a couple of very powerfull students! Teachers have to build rapport with the students, and a gun wouldn't help develope that kind of relationship. I think that the honorably discharged vets in unform would be a much better choice for gaurdng schools. They would be off limits to the student population. They would be there for one purpose only, and that is to keep the campus safe.

Teacher Barney Fife reporting for duty!

Anyone who can remember what high school was like thinks this is a bad idea. So many kids would have been shot by teachers in my class.

Bad idea, especially if the teacher is a minority.

Somewhere I read, in a shoot out, police only hit their targets about 18% of the time. I teach and have a CPL but don't want to take a gun to school. Too many things to go wrong. My gun could be taken off me, I could mistake the target, the incoming law enforcement could mistake ME for the target. Listening to NPR, I heard a POC mention their fears about being mistaken for a shooter. Bad idea. So is making our schools into prisons.

I believe it's a really bad idea 1.) because the school boards have already cut so many budgets and now all of a sudden there's money to give all faculty members a glock??? Really?? and 2.) Who's to say the teacher would not turn it against one of the students, I know for a fact that one of th teachers that used to work at my old high school was terrified of any student that was even close to his height, why would you arm someone who's initial response is to try to deflect/defend himself against a student walking over to his desk

There are tons of unemployed veterans why not give them security jobs guarding schools 24/7

Well, we have done an excellent job of training police officers to make fast and accurate judgment calls about firing their weapons in high pressure situations, so why not teachers, too? Oh, wait...
There are SOOO many problems with this idea.

I didn't agree with guns N teachers right after Columbine (first time this idea popped up) and I don't agree now.
BTW, I am republican and I voted for Trump.

Of course it's a shit idea. It's a typical response though. It's also so much easier than
addressing the reall problems.

Desperate, and sick. The US gun lobby is a powerful animal, though. Backed by gun worshipers attempting to reenact a ‘wild west’ mentally using tactical arms inconceivable by Our Founders; and having stockpiled them for decades … they’re itchen for a fight.

Freshly familiar with public schools in the USA, it’s as sick an idea as I’ve yet to hear. My mind drifted a lot in school … like placing the map of continents ‘together’ like a puzzle before Continental Drift was acknowledged by our religious/ political leaders… Now what - forming their opinion of humanity or community while staring at a sidearm? ...and linking the aspirations of teachers, often the most humanitarian members of the community, to carrying guns..?

...you’ve got me started, which isn’t all that difficult.. And I can imagine the responses of our resident gun worshipers, but we’ve a Constitution in need of amending - and a body count to prove it. The blood is on their trigger fingers… No guns in schools - and a permanent ban and confiscation/ buyback of any of the family of weapons having been used in the now countless massacres within our nation - period

[and if you’re a Russian worm looking to rile our masses, too late]

I think this country is going crazy.

Every teacher I know has said "Hell no!".

If we put security in schools we'd need really well trained individuals who are mostly seperate from the Student Population. Not people who are there to teach them.

So you think that all veterans have PTSD, rhetorical. Just like saying all cops are corrupt or that all judges are unfair. Perhaps honest politicians well may be somewhere in a galaxy far far away. Just because one nut job causes a problem you want to band them all?

One of the things that bothers me abut atheists is that most are left wingers. The new left is actually a religion. facts, unless they "fit" the dogma, are ignored.

Just imagine what’s going to happen to that poor black teacher should the cops be called for any reason.

I think you have to take into account ALL gun deaths. Not those just from mass shootings.

So taking into account accidental gun death rates, even if you mitigated mass shootings (which I don’t think the data is there to prove that case), you would still have a higher death toll due to gun accidents with children being in the vicinity of guns.

Then take into account an increased suicide due to guns being in the hands of more adults and the death count goes even higher.

Bad idea

We use guns to protect us from bad guys. Used properly guns are great. Some are so simple minded - "guns bad" I suppose fire is bad too if its misused, maybe we should get rid of gasoline - it might explode and burn or kill you.

Its the use or misuse that makes something good or bad - teachers and admins are generally very responsible - I would trust them to not misuse their weapons.

Fortunately, I am retired from teaching. As I said before, the idea of arming teachers popped up right after Columbine. I don't know a NYC teacher that agreed then with this suggestion. I am sure no one would agree now. Is dangerous. Very dangerous.

only an american could have come up with that one