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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elementary 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…
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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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Schools Defenseless, Teachers Need Guns There have been many school shootings, and many times students, teachers, and staff have been injured or dead. They have nothing to fight back with. So why not give them the one thing that will help them, guns? Teachers should be allowed to have guns in their classrooms, so when a shooter comes into the school they will be able to defend themselves, as well as the students. Teachers are responsible for people’s children. A teacher’s job isn’t only to just…
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shootings have posed a problem in schools throughout the United States, solutions to try and keep students and staff better protected are being investigated. From imposing more gun control safety measures, to questioning if gun laws need to be changed. Recently, the state of Tennessee passed a bill allowing teachers to carry concealed guns. Teachers themselves have been left asking the question of whether arming teachers is the correct response to the problem of school shootings. This allowance may have…
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Haczynski, a high school teacher, says “I don’t care how much training a teacher goes through, in that moment, if they’re trying to stop an active teacher, what happens if they miss? What if they hit a kid?” (qtd in Chambers). Even if teachers did have trainings a gun could still misfire or hit a student. “He says he polled his students more than 80-percent say teachers with guns would not make them feel safer” (Chambers). That is over half of his students would feel unsafe with armed teachers. We did a…
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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, where elementary school children found it…
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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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Would arming teachers decrease the perishes in a school shooting? Or would it only deprive the school of the safety that they need? From perspective, there’s a chance that it would. Arming teachers would most likely cause harm due to its risk. Schools arming teachers would possibly decrease the safety for the children in the school grounds across the world, and there are a various reasons why. Since school shootings are so rare, arming teachers would only increase the rate of harm than safety for…
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Do you carry a weapon for self protection? Do you think teachers should be able to protect the students better? Teachers are trained to take the students in the room to a hiding spot and try not to be found by an intruder trying to do harm. In 2012 one person killed 26 people in a school. These are my reasons why school personnel should be able to carry a firearm on them to protect themselves and the students in the school build form intruders that are trying to do harm to others. To protect the…
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