All the articles and Facebook posts and whatnot I’m seeing claiming that the solution is to arm teachers are really something. There are always people arguing that this would never have happened if everyone was armed but the current arm the teachers embodiment is especially awful. Typically, the people making this case are the same ones who think teachers are a bunch of lazy overpaid union creeps who are just out to brainwash our kids into socialism and then steal all the government money, but put that aside and take the proposal at face value.
How would it work? Will we train the teachers in tactics and make them prove their marksmanship at the range? Better yet, let’s just put them through SWAT school. Would the teacher wear the gun in a holster? What’s to stop a pissed off student from reaching for it? Should the teacher keep it in a drawer? It would have to be locked. Will a shooter wait patiently as she fumbles for her keys to unlock it? Should we implement the fingerprint sensors so only the teacher can fire it? This will all be very expensive, can we raise taxes?
As is typical for this type of argument, there’s no real thought involved.
520 Chestnut 
http://gravelkraken.com/2012/12/yes-let-teachers-bear-arms
Of the world’s 23 “rich” countries, the U.S. gun-related murder rate is almost 20 times that of the other 22. With almost one privately owned firearm per person, America’s ownership rate is the highest in the world; tribal-conflict-torn Yemen is ranked second, with a rate about half of America’s. From The Alantic, July 2012
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