Argumentative Essay: Should Teachers Carry Guns?

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I think that teachers should NOT be able to carry guns in school and that instead they should be able to improve their safety against shooters without having the need to shoot back. I believe that it is absurd to think that arming teachers with more guns with actually make school shooting numbers go down. What if a small child gets ahold of it and started shooting. Or if somehow a teen got ahold of it and commited suicide. And yes, I know that those things are not likely to happen especially if the teachers are trained which I understand that they will be but the odds of that happening are probably about the same as the odds of a shooter coming in, probably higher. Think about it this way, there have been 297 people who have died in school
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