Should Teachers carry weapons?

BuzzStPoint · October 7th, 2006, 01:07 AM

If you follow the news around the US you have heard in the past few weeks that there have been a number of School Shootings.

Here in Wisconsin, we have a Rep that is trying to get a bill passed that will allow teachers to carry guns for protection with proper training.

here is the question.

Should teachers be allow to carry weapons?
Please give a brief explaination to why you voted the way you did.

*Not for debate, please just give your answer.

BuzzStPoint · October 7th, 2006, 01:12 AM

I voted no..
If you ask me, I am all for gun rights, I have a few myself and feel any law obiding citizen should have that right.

Now when you talk about teacher carrying in schools, I dont think we should allow teachers to carry that responsibility. You get into the area of who should carry, when they should pull and use the weapon.

I think if weapons are allowed into schools it should be done by a professional security firm. This would release the teachers from the responsibility of whom or when to use force. After all, they are teachers, not security.

SetiShock · October 7th, 2006, 01:27 AM

No.
Being in the front of the class shooting back in to the class makes for an innocent getting hit. This is unacceptable. The teachers would have to under go heavy training and carry person liability insurance. Some kid gets drilled by a teacher and you can bet your ass the **** is gonna hit the fan.
If the circumstances in a classroom have eroded to the point that teachers have to carry guns then it's time to take a cold hard look at the way schools are run today. I think today that schools are micromanaged too much and with the feds saying monetary support is based on the kids performance then something is really fracking wrong. You have one kid that needs extra help with something and they can't get it. They get frustrated and you have a bomb ticking. That's just one scenario but the theory holds true. You read the kids involved in the shooting were underachievers and outcasts. Something has to be done to bring these kids back in to the fold. If schools are continued to be run like corporations then you're gonna get unwanted backlash. Bodies...

Ronn · October 7th, 2006, 01:47 AM

Just for the reason that teachers are meant for teaching, not for shooting and stuffs. Its not a teachers job to carry weapons. We should be going towards lesser weapons in the community. This is like promoting more weapons. And what if a teacher cannot take care of the weapons. Who is going to bear that responsibility. Sounds like asking for more trouble to me.

Jon · October 7th, 2006, 02:36 AM

Like Seti said, if we have to worry about teachers carrying guns, we have bigger fish to fry.

lhuser · October 7th, 2006, 04:57 AM

I said no simply because if the teacher loses it, he/she can take the gum and go BOOM HEADSHOT on a kid.

Tommy Boy · October 9th, 2006, 09:29 AM

No, absolutely not.
Guns have no place in a school, not by teachers, and not even by a security firm. I think they need to stop the problem before it starts by stopping the students from even bringing them to school by installing metal detectors, allowing searches of students cars while they are on school property..etc.

If you have any kind of guns in a school building, there is always going to be that one time where a student attempts to steal the gun and start shooting at people. Thats what I'd be afraid of. I'm sure parents would be worried about sending there kids to school if they knew there was going to be a gun there.

Like I said before, guns have no place in a school building.

wooonelly · October 9th, 2006, 11:40 AM

I agree with all of you, and also thought of Tommy's point that if there are guns in school, some teacher is going to leave it in his/her desk and some kid is going to take it. Then who knows what is going to happen.

ArrizX · November 7th, 2006, 06:26 PM

Yes and no.

In a big innercity school such as one in Seattle then yes, id say go for it with proper gun handling and as long as the gun is carred ON the teacher because a kid will find a gun anywhere else.. But if they know about it and see it, they will literally be scared into place.

However in my school it is tottally unneeded as I got to a school in a town of like 4000 people. Small town, small school = no need.

Edit-
Whoops I just saw the poll on the first page and replied in the thread when I cliked see results. My bad..

SetiShock · November 7th, 2006, 06:51 PM

No harm done as it's still up, it's fair game.
I've been thinking if it was possible in any city to build a school complex that is run as tightly as a prison but not as obvious, then it may just make it easier to maintain the peace. Something out away from downtown. We have a middle school nearby that is newer than most. It's set on a main highway but in a rural setting. The outside is patroled by off duty police and the halls have cameras. No visitors unless you have an apointment or you're a vendor.
It has not had any problems since it was built.