Teachers Should Be Armed In School School shootings have been happening a lot lately and people have been questioning if teachers should be armed? There have been 11 US school shootings this year. Is it really time to arm teachers? Teachers should be armed with guns because many people and kids have been dying from shootings, also many kids need to be protected at school. Parents want to know that their kid will be alright and will not be at risk of getting hurt. First, teachers should be armed…
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Should Teachers Be Armed? The National Rifle Association (NRA) wants to train and arm all public school teachers and administrators. As the NRA plans, this action would protect students and school faculty who encounters serious danger such as a shootout or an armed intruder. Let’s say the NRA provides proper gun trainer to teachers. It is hard for me to imagine my sweet, elderly, loving second-grade teacher properly using a gun and shooting an armed intruder. Not everyone is capable of properly…
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Teachers have guns. In other news, pigs are flying. By Beth Littman, Helen O’Shaughnessy, Zahcy Sefer, and Elijah Wolf The recent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has sparked a national debate about guns that America knows all too well. Across the country, schools are scrambling to do something that will reassure both parents and students that they will be safe at school. Ideas such as raising the age to buy a gun and expanding background checks have been thrown around but…
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school with a gun and shot over a dozen children and teachers. After this tragedy, the government stayed busy contemplating ideas about how to keep schools safer and to prevent shootings from happening. A theory was discussed about the possibility of teachers being armed in schools. In reality, it is impossible to prevent school shootings by arming teachers because teachers lack training, students are involuntarily being put into danger, and it would be difficult to justify a teacher shooting a student…
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Arming teachers who are qualified to be armed should happen because shooters will be less adamant to shoot at a school has armed teachers, teachers can intervene before the police get there, and students should feel safe at school. Schools will be safer with teachers who are armed. They will have a chance to intervene and save lives before the police can be there to intervene. Yes, one downside is that some students may see guns and become scared but if you slowly allow the kids to become comfortable…
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Arming Teachers; a Plausible Defense for Unthinkable Dangers Imagine a student in class, silently yet hastily completing their work; their determination interrupted by a blaring alarm they’ve only known in drills. A panic runs throughout the school, fear running alongside with it; stealing the color right from people’s faces. This is not a drill. The student’s teacher is frozen with fear, and they survey the room. They watch as another student goes to shut the door, but they were unfortunately one…
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Arming Teachers: Yes or No? With school shootings on the rise, is arming teachers really a good idea? We believe that arming teachers would not be the preferable choice to protecting students from school shootings. In fact, the act of arming teachers may be even more detrimental than not arming teachers because there would be an increase in safety problems, a hierarchy which would be built off of fear, and the expense as well as training. As we know, school shootings in the U.S. continue to rise…
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opinion teachers should be allowed to carry guns in school. Honestly, I think teachers should bring guns to school because you never know what person will come into the school. Someone could come into a school with any kind of weapon, what are you going to do without a gun or weapon. How are you going to protect your students. You have to protect your students somehow. Would a school be safe without guns the answer would be no. If a teacher has the proper training absolutely they should be allowed…
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The levels of gun violence in the past few years have reached an alarmingly high level. This creates challenges to everyone's safety and well-being. The consequences of gun violence have reached far beyond just the immediate families of the victims. Communities can be left traumatized with long-lasting emotional effects. One key factor in the increase in guns is the easy accessibility to guns. Gun ownership is becoming more normalized and therefore, violence has increased as well. As of 2022, the…
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far outweigh the benefits. It is a risk that they are trying to give school teachers guns. Many tragic events could happen with guns. One big one being that a student could steal the gun or maybe even bring a weapon like a knife to stab the teacher and steal the gun. In many cases some students could create a distraction and others could steal the gun. Or a teacher accidentally sits it down and forgets about it. A teacher at a Pennsylvania Christian school accidently left her loaded pistol in a bathroom…
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