>> I've heard all the arguments about students getting ahold of a teacher's gun, accidental discharge, etc. If you're making those sorts of arguments, do you al

>> I've heard all the arguments about students getting ahold of a teacher's gun, accidental discharge, etc. If you're making those sorts of arguments, do you also carry a gun? >The teachers I know dislike this idea for those reasons: it makes them targets and in a non-prison environment the gun would either be easy for a student to get or too secure for them to get in an emergency situation, especially when they’re supposed to be managing panicked students. Count in there following accidents: teacher shooting teacher, teacher shooting kid, teacher overreacting (false alarm), teacher misplacing gun, kid getting access to a gun locker, police shooting teacher or kid (kids will decide at that point to play superheroes and go for a gun). People complain in this country about police officers shooting kids. People that are trained for years and are reviewed (supposedly regularly) for their ability to carry a firearm and play judge, jury, executioner in a stressful situation as a team. People just don't get how impractical and unrealistic this idea is. You want an average Jane/Joe to coordinate with their peers and dependents (kids) to incapacitate a person armed with an assault rifle (does not matter if it is semi-automatic if you are trained really) armed with a handgun. You ask superhuman feats from the teachers: i) to be paradigms and caretakers and nurturers for our kids ii) to be trained, tactical and cold blooded killers. I don't want any kid of mine near a teacher trained to respond to these situations (I accept there are people that are able to cut themselves emotionally and react with cold blooded clarity and precision, while not being on their guard and paranoid: call them naturals and good luck...).