Are Teachers Really Against Carrying Guns?
As the gun debate rages on, there has been a pocket of the discussion that seems to be the most out of control. Marco Rubio signed a law creating a program that can arm teachers in Florida. Naturally, there is outrage. The question is, how do people really feel about the issue? On top of that, can arming teachers actually work?
The Narrative
There has been no shortage of public accounts detailing how teachers are unanimously against carrying guns. Teachers are already responsible for educating and raising our children. How can they also be asked to protect them? It’s far too much, and most teachers would be dangerously inept anyways. There was a teacher in Georgia that already accidentally shot up the school. And, what if the dangerous student gets ahold of the gun? Guns just make every situation more dangerous. They never help.
In addition to all of that, liberal media is pushing the notion that the American people don’t want their teachers armed. As a nation, we are unified under the ideas of adolescents in Florida, and only a sweeping weapons ban can possibly save these innocent lives. Without common sense gun control, they will all perish.
Real Polls
There’s a lot to unpack, so we’ll start with some real polls. You see, the polls used to suggest teachers and the American public are completely against armed teachers are notoriously bad surveys. They usually suggest that the only proposal is a mandatory arming of all teachers. Even in those lopsided polls, 43 percent of all Americans and 30 percent of all teachers are in favor of the notion.
That second notion is important. If roughly 10 percent of school staff was armed, there would be the potential for a rapid response to any shooting anywhere on school grounds. Let’s emphasize this point. There are an average of 25 students to every teacher. That means there can be an armed presence for every 250 students in the nation. And, this number doesn’t count administrative staff.
More importantly, these numbers are completely wrong. When the wording of the surveys is more specific, support for arming teachers jumps. A survey by PoliceOne asked the specific question, “Do you support arming teachers and/or school administrators who volunteer to carry at their school?” The answer, “Yes, if they are vetted, trained, and qualified annually” was checked by 76 percent of respondents. Simply put, anyone with common sense is ok with a voluntary program that empowers teachers to protect their students if they feel up to the challenge.
It Already Works
In the end, public opinion isn’t really important for this issue. Arming civilians has already been proven to work. After 9/11, a program was instituted that allowed pilots to train and then carry firearms in the cockpit. Since it was instituted, there have been 0 accidental discharges, and the pilots have misused or abused the privilege 0 times. There also have been 0 successful cockpit breaches (although admittedly armed pilots is only one part of the total reason for that). The program has been wildly effective, and most Americans don’t even realize that somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of all commercial pilots are armed.
That’s not really the big story. In select areas, teachers have been armed for a number of years now. You’ll find that in these trial areas, there have been no students killed by armed attackers. Ever. There have, however, been attempts. In 2017, 7 different school shootings were thwarted by teachers. Not all of them were armed. In all of those events, the only person harmed was the shooter. In half, even the shooter was unharmed.
These statistics exist even though fewer than one percent of all schools have an armed presence. It’s impossible to calculate how many lives were saved by the decisive action of heroic teachers, but we can be sure that supporting and empowering them is the surefire way to save the lives of children.
Let’s recap. The majority of America is not against arming teachers. While the majority of teachers do not want to be the individuals carrying, a majority of them are not opposed to the existence of a training and vetting program that gives them an option. As always, teachers are in favor of their own autonomy. Most importantly, where it has been tried, arming school staff has only saved lives.
~ National Gun Network
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Something someone said when I was very young and it stayed with me as I grew older (and wiser?)
Before you criticize your neighbor’s back yard , make sure you clean up your own !
The only way to protect our schools is to allow those who choose to protect themselves as our Constitution intended. The common thread of nearly every mass shooting is that they occur in “gun free” zones. We refer to those as shooting galleries for criminals. Case in point, the movie theater shooter in Colorado drove past 4 theaters that allowed conceal carry to carry out his evil at a theater that was a gun free zone. These zones only achieve one goal and that is to give criminals an obvious advantage in carrying out any crime they choose. Make these gun free zones illegal, allow those who choose to defend themselves to do so, and watch these events slow to a crawl. By the way I am a retired educator of 30 years.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Unfortunately, that’s all the mainstream media distributes in their misguided attempt to influence the people of this country to support their own PC agenda. If one does a bit of research it will be revealed that these are the tactics of the majority of Communist countries in the world. Frankly, the mainstream media of the U.S. is despicable!
I don’t believe the polls. I would want to carry a sidearm if I was a teacher.
Of course any law abiding American has the right to carry a gun whether they are a teacher, school bus driver or principal. But only if they want to and are willing to get the training and are willing to take on this responsibility. No teacher should be required to carry a gun. Way too many teachers out there are left-wing wacko, as we can see from what they teach their students …. we really don’t want some of these types carrying guns …do we?
One issue is who will pay for the training if required? Many school systems have dropped Drivers Ed because they say they can’t afford it. And more people will die from bad drivers this year than all school shootings ever … combined. I don’t see anyone marching to end bad drivers, to ban automatic transmissions or raise the driving age to 21. (although I’d be all for that last one)
MSM are just lying to everyone to push the liberal agenda. They will pay for their crimes!
Suggested guidelines:
No compulsion – only those who volunteer may carry
No encouragement – no extra pay, no reimbursement for training – only those whose motivation is a sincere desire to protect should carry
Legal – must comply with all federal and state law
Qualified – must pass same proficiency test as state police, at 6 month intervals
Anonymous – registered with police, but NOT with school – no one in the school (admin, faculty, students, janitorial, grounds, etc) should know who is carrying – with POSSIBLE exception of other registered carriers
Public awareness – police dept may publish the number (but not identities) of registered carriers – the deterrent factor only works if potential aggressors know they will face armed defenders – if any carriers hold advanced qualification, that fact may be published as well
All you would need is several teachers or school administrators to be armed to stop or kill an armed assassin. There are probably several candidates in every school to start with that are forbidden to carry in a useless “gun free zone” like a school, so we would automatically have several candidates to start with. However, these armed teachers/administrators should be “vetted” every six months, not yearly as practice with a firearm is an ongoing process to keep “situational awareness” and “muscle memory” for a real situation.
Also, students should be taught what to do in any attack – one student to lock the classroom door in the seat closest the door, and regular practice of the whole student body just like the old “duck and cover” days in the past. I’d rather my kids be protected by people on scene, rather than wait for the police arrive 10 minutes later when the shooting has already happened and the criminal already gone. While in the school, the armed staff should have their firearms locked down in a very secure but quickly accessible box so that a student cannot get their hands on a firearm easily, but the staff can access it quickly if needed.
Remember this: firearms do not kill people by themselves, people kill people, sometimes with anything that come to hand from cars to screwdrivers to rocks – going to eliminate them all too?
It shouldn’t stop with teachers, Anyone who can legally purchase a firearm should be able to arm themselves, anywhere, anytime.
An armed citizen’s response to an active shooter is immediate, the police response to an active shooter, 5 minutes, if lucky!
I think every male teacher in American should be packing a 45 and have to go to the range
every 6mo. and shoot or learn to shoot. Even our church are starting to arm theirselvs.
If we made the soft target armed Dummies might think twice.
If you want a safe school have trained teachers or others that work in the schools to have conceal and carry licences so it is no longer a gun fee zone which only allows crazy people or jihads to mow the kids down left and right at their pleasure. Our children are our best resource they will lead our country some day if we start protecting them now. A gun does not kill by it self it is an inanimate object it is the person behind the gun that actually does the killing. Chicago has the strictest gun policies on record and they have about as many killed per month as was killed in Vegas every month.
well ye let cps have them they have killed over a thousand this year…Take then out first…They have kijjed more than all
Arming teachers is the ONLY way we can protect our children from the ruthless attack of Satan inspired liberal thugs. The only teacher that would refuse to protect the children are themselves Satan inspired liberals. The number one thing we can do is to put GOD back into our schools.
on this issue…it is important to note that professional associations…like the AFT…do not speak for all of their members
It is not whether or not “Are Teachers Really Against Carrying Guns?”The fact is that political sides try to dictate to their constituents. It could be as simple as if you are a registered Democrat you cannot be a gun owner because when casting your vote you are selecting an anti-gunner. Possibly you hunt and you use an AR15 because you like how it looks. Many teachers are pure antigun, while other teachers choose to say, ignore the party line and own what they want.
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