Arming Teachers Should Be Allowed In Schools

Nothing is more dangerous than the threat of being attacked by armed gunmen in schools. The school board, educators, and parents are arguing about whether should teachers be armed or not. One side believes arming teachers should be made legal in the state of California because, every single person has a right to defend themselves, the right with it to bear arms, many school districts are in rural areas far from such law enforcement protections, armed teachers help prevent emergency situations, and armed teachers would have minimized mass shootings. The other side believes arming teachers should be continued to be illegal in the state of California because, guns are dangerous, purchasing ammunition and guns for every teacher and training is
The majority of them said they don’t hope to be armed. Guns should not be in the hands of who don’t wish to hold them. It’s unreason to arm teachers when they don’t desire to. In the article, Montgomery writes, “Rep. John Legg, R-New Port Richey, who has taught in the classroom and now is a charter school administrator, said, "I'm not a fan of solving violence by escalating violence on an elementary school campus” (Montgomery). As the lesson that teachers always tries to teach their students, violence is not a way to solve violence. Arming teachers would also give the atrocious messages to the students that being violent is fine, which isn’t. In the article, the author writes, “72.4% of educators say they would be unlikely to bring a firearm to school if they were allowed to do so. 68% of teachers, faculty and education support staff opposed a proposal to arm teachers” (Guns and School Safety Survey Results). Some teachers are elderly. Many of them even have mental health issues. Not every teacher will successfully acquire the skills required to bring guns to school. Arming teachers would not reduce violent crime rate if strangers come to one of those
This is not fully true because, having the right to protect themselves doesn’t mean having the right to cause danger to innocent people as well. They believe that arming teachers should be made legal because, every single person has a right with it to bear arms as long as the guns are concealed. They believe that it’s the law, which is the Second Amendment itself. In the article, Sunday, Salam, and Oham writes, “The students were having their prayers around 7:30a.m. when the armed men suddenly showed up, threatening to shoot anyone who dared to move. On hearing the gunshots, the students ran in different directions for their dear lives” (Sunday, Salam, Oham). They believe that if they had armed teachers, the teachers could have been able to prevent the threat. Strangers wouldn’t come if they know there were armed teachers. They are wrong because, atrocious situations may appear no matter the teachers were armed or not, if they were allowed to bring guns to the classroom, they would need to put the guns somewhere safe to prevent students from getting them and that will cause them difficulty assessable when the shooter comes in. By the time the teachers getting their guns, they might already get shot. In the article, Grossman writes, “Parents of Utah schoolchildren have no way to tell which teachers carry a handgun. By law, Utah gun permit records are closed to the public”