It amazes me that folks who are against teachers carrying arbatrairly decide that when an active shooting starts the 40 or 50+ teachers necessary to staff a school w/ "hundreds of by standing students" will all rush into halls, through gyms & cafeterias & leave their students defenseless & alone in the classroom.dac1842 wrote:Good morning. I knew when I wrote this that there would be disagreement. I still stand by my position. In my opinion the correct response to the increase in school shootings is to place a police officer in the schools.
To clarify one point. A few that responded compared my not wanting teachers to carry to many other professions not carrying. Here is the difference, when it is a one on one situation such as a clerk in a store, taxi driver in a taxi, etc, I have no issue. However, when the environment is anyplace where there are hundreds of bystanders such as a school, church, or mall type setting I do not feel that a CHL holder has the proper training, except for strictly defending yourself or those in a your immediate area, to respond to that event. I am not saying you should not defend yourself, I am against having people start looking for shooter, that creates more problems than it does solutions.
Again folks, just my opinion. Be safe.
Armed teachers can be trained easily & quickly to secure the room & defend it. They will not "fan out & flush him out boys" so the teacher possey can surround him w/ all guns ablazin as nay sayers seem to always see.