People who grow up without guns get so freaked out about them. My dad grew up in a time and place in the American West where lots of the kids and teachers broug

People who grow up without guns get so freaked out about them. My dad grew up in a time and place in the American West where lots of the kids and teachers brought guns to school as their parents and grandparents had. Walking home from school, they'd shoot potatoes for fun. In the entire history of the town, nobody ever shot anybody, in anger or by accident. Guns were just tools like knives, trucks, or farm machinery. You learned to use them carefully, and you used them all the time. I agree that arming an untrained hothead like this professor would be a mistake. He would probably laugh at a fuzzy studies colleague who noticed a radiation warning on some chemical in his closet and freaked out about RADIATION! RADIATION! Yet he's just as superstitious about his gun taboo. Letting him near students at all is probably a mistake. But allowing some people to go through reasonable training and, if certified and background checked, be allowed to carry a weapon would probably be fine. I suspect it just wouldn't make any difference. On rare occasion, an armed staff member would save or rescue somebody. On other rare occasions, somebody would grab a teacher's gun, just playing around or seriously, and hurt somebody. Statistically, it would probably be a wash.