God, no.

That is a fucking fantastic idea. 

Hey, I’d much rather take a class from Dirty Harry than Mr. Feeny.

As a school teacher, I say this is a horrible idea! If the school is so concerned, then they need to try every method possible rather than this. How about spending money to invest in metal detectors? Forbidding clothing in which a weapon can be easily concealed? Forbidding the use of backpacks within the building? There are a number of deterrents that other districts use.

Reality: We had a student in our district arrested for bringing a gun to school and carrying it on his person throughout the school day this last year. As soon as his peers realized he had it, they turned him in. Fortunately, in this case: No harm, big foul. The kid was indeed arrested and expelled despite the fact that he had no intention of using the gun and it only contained blanks. (And he should have had both of those things happen to him.) When the administration and campus officer pulled him out of class, he did not fight it. Even knowing that a teacher would have the safety of the school in mind, I hate to think of what might have happened if an over-zealous, gun-toting teacher would have found out first.  The process works when everyone is on board. It did in our school.

Let’s not even mention the fact that schools are supposed to be safe-harbors for students. They should feel safe in our classrooms. If they have to wonder whether or not their teacher has a gun and where it is hidden, they really can’t feel safe. Let’s face it: it’s only a matter of time before the wrong person finds that gun (if it’s hidden in the classroom) or takes that gun (by overpowering the person with it before they ever get the chance to react).

No. I see more potential danger in this situation than in the current. If the school is so concerned, they need to figure out better deterrents to bringing weapons to school and a tough process concerning how they will handle it when/if it happens anyway.

@saintvi - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I LOVE IT! You are right. The term “going postal” could become “going classroom management on your ass!”

@Xcholo4u - If it makes them feel more secure then let them.

Just because they would feel more secure doesn’t mean that they are more secure.

No, some teachers are quite violent already.

@AllMyNamesAreTaken - But I think it’d be a good deterrent if the kid knows, “Hmm, my first, third, fourth, and sixth period teachers have guns and know how to use them.

1.) The homicidal student, then, would have ready access of a gun from a teacher.

2.) The sort of students who go on a shooting rampage are the sort of students ready to die. They won’t be deterred much.

3.) Even with “evaluation” and “training,” the teacher would not be as nearly as effective as a career police officier in handling a weapon. Why not leave it to the professioanls?

Uh, no. I’d be transferring out. haha

WHAT THE F**K!

DOUBLE U TEA F!

@saintvi - what do you mean noboddy steals from teachers like every day our teachers complaining how somthing got stolen!

@evoulionary – what about those happy trigger emos?

only in Texas.. God I love it here, to me yes that is common sense. I watched a documentary on msnbc last night, that was a bout unruly teens, and one attacked his teacher, had that teacher had gun… wouldn’t been no problem

No because I’m sure somewhere along the line it would get stolen.

I’m against concealed handguns for ANYone.

And more guns are not the answer. They should utilize a tougher policy towards those who DO take a gun into a school- any age.

…Please don’t go to faceyourmanga.com, Dan. It’s all I ask anymore.

no way because what if ur teacher was mental and no one knew it? They would shoot you for a punishment.

I bet a 5 year old has a gun in Texas. Hahah.

Teachers should be able to have weapons in schools. Armed teachers are the best defense against attacking gunmen. I think that teachers shouldn’t be armed all the time, though. I think there should be a secured box in some or all of the classes, and only the teacher of that class has the key/combination to that box. It should have a gun, some ammo, and a vest. In the event of an alarm, all of the teachers go to their boxes. There should be either a good enough communication system in place so that the teachers can coordinate their movements, or there should be a plan that the teachers follow to secure the building. I don’t know. There’s a lot to this issue, and I’m very passionate about it. Schools are ripe targets for homicidal individuals because they’re virtually helpless, and that has to change.

@TheWorldsOfficialCritic - How trustworthy are teachers in comparison to police officers?

As a teacher, I would be more terrified to carry a gun or know that other teachers had them on them.

Isn’t it easier to steal a gun then sneak one in? What are they supposed to do, carry it in a holster?

GREAT IDEA TEXAS!

I don’t know. That would scare the hell out of me to know that my professor has a gun.

Well if all of the cops they had around the place did their damned jobs, we wouldn’t need to worry about that.

 What kind of a message is this sending to kids, seeing their teachers with glocks all strapped onto their belts?

 ”Learn or the teacher might just get fed up with you and shoot you”?

 And have you SEEN some of the people they’re letting teach these days? There are some pretty eccentric people in charge of classrooms. And not eccentric in a good way.

God, no. If you feel the need to have a gun at the school, I think a police liaison (is that the right word?) would be a much better decision. We had a cop at my high school and he got along with mostly everybody.

@rachelangel24 - Psychological tests would be used. There’s more to this idea than the face question. Of course precautions have to be taken. Teachers would have to be put to standards similar to policemen.

@IAmPositiveILostAnElectron - If I truly wanted to attack a facility, I wouldn’t have to get anywhere near it with today’s technology, but you and I are talking apples and oranges.  My only point is that based on the facts we’ve been given, a solid step in the right direction BEFORE giving a teacher a gun, is to prevent them from entering the school by using guards, x-ray machines, and metal detectors.  This won’t stop a terrorist, but it will stop the average kid from bringing a gun/knife to school for reasons other than show and tell.  If you want to get technical, what’s to stop some kid from beating the hell out of another kid, or even a teacher, with a wooden baseball bat…or even a band instrument?  Nothing will ABSOLUTELY stop this problem…these are just preventative measures.

@la_vida_linda - True, but the safety feature can backfire, too. Nothing in life is perfect.

Well actually this could go either way in my opinion. Maybe make sure the teacher is mentally stable to handle the responsibility of bearing arms in public. Obviously leaving the gun in your desk isn’t proper conduct. They could start making all school’s like the one’s for juvies. Teachers lecture behind a bullet proof panel or have devices on their person that can easily be set off to inform the guards if a student is trying to restrain the teacher or whatever. I had a substitute who taught at a juvie or something of that nature and told us about that stuff. haha. But yea, I’m up in the air with the gun thing…we’ll see

No, this a BAD idea…..The guns are going to end up in the hands of students…….who might do something absymally stupid with them….as a frat prank maybe…….God, what are they thinking?

@stalkdebbie - They aren’t promoting violence; they are preventing it. Who would be dumb enough to bring a gun to school when he knows teachers have the ability to protect themselves and their classes?

It’s not “common” sense, but it is sense.

“Sit down, pay attention or I’ll fucking shoot you” is what most teachers want to say in the first place.  Put a gun in their hands?  I don’t think that’s very intelligent.

There’s a kid somewhere inside the school, armed and dangerous; all the classrooms are on lockdown, and every teacher in every single classroom is armed with a gun.

He says, “It’s common sense.”

So you’re telling me that it’s common sense to arm a teacher with a gun? How much better does that make the teacher than the armed-and-dangerous student outside? Even if it was for the safety of the students inside the classrooms, you’d arm a staff member with a gun ready to shoot, just in case, god forbid, a crazed person tries to harm someone? How is that supposed to teach the students to deal with a situation like that?

Violence is not the solution. Fear is not the solution. Guns are most certainly not the solution.

This man’s logic is flawed.

What if the teacher goes crazy? Starts shooting up the place? What then? Will he arm the students with guns then? Oh, but wait.. that’s just preposterous isn’t it? Well if that is.. what about the teacher?

There should be another way.

@mikaisaotome - 

“But having the guns there is certainly not
preventing violence, nor is it comforting anyone, nor will it prevent
violence in the long run in schools.”
Certainly? Have you researched this? In places where alcohol is legal at much younger ages, there are not more crimes involving alcohol (in fact there are less), and in places where guns are legal, there are not more crimes either (in fact, in many I think, there are less).

“I just want to point out one flaw in your logic”
I read that whole paragraph and I didn’t see you point out the flaw… You merely disagreed with me. However, you did say “in fact it hasn’t happened”, implying that research has been done to prove that criminals do not die sooner when people have guns, yet you contradicted yourself by saying no research had been done…  You are not convincing, only passionately disagreeing because of your bad feelings associated with guns. (There have been more crimes committed with other weapons than there have with guns, AND one reason crimes go down in areas is because they employ more police there, and police have guns.)

“Criminals really can give a damn less if
they’re attacking a school that has guns, mostly because those kinds of
people, who are violence driven psychopaths/terrorist believe the more
violence the better. If you’ve ever sat and talked to these people,
you’d know how wrong you are. (I have, it’s very disturbing)”
Actually, I have a degree in Psychology and am currently working on my Doctorate in Psychology… The people that talk so violently like that are not likely to do it. It’s usually people who don’t talk about that somehow snap and go on those killing sprees. It’s true that they usually have a death wish and would do it anyway, but it’s also true that they would be stopped sooner. It takes less time for a brave teacher to unlock his gun and go stop the guy than it does for the police to arrive and do the job themselves. Each minute more kids could be getting shot…

“Guns in the hands of the teachers adds to the chaos, and puts blood on the hands of innocent people.”
“Blood on the hands” suggests that the person whose hands those are is not innocent but guilty… But I know what you meant; and no, it puts blood on the heads of the guilty people.

@mikaisaotome - “First of all, Alcohol is another issue entirely, and recent cross
cultural research at UC Davis by a grad student named Michale Bheil
shows otherwise to everything you’ve said regarding this issue.”
Okay, although the older research I have seen contradicts this, I’ll take your word for it.

“The Flaw that you appear to have in your logic is that if teachers have
guns it will deter crime.”
I’m not arguing that guns in the hands of teachers will deter crime. I am arguing that it will ultimately save more lives. I do submit that there will be psychopaths with a death wish that will do the school shooting thing – however, I argued that they would be stopped sooner if the teachers had guns.

I’m sorry for being rude as well; I was merely trying to show you that I’ve examined that aspect of psychology and know what I’m talking about.

So you have a Psych degree too?