Argumentative Essay On Armed Teachers
Becca Peterson
December 14, 2014
Analytical Writing
Theresa Schnieder
Armed Teachers
A recent tragedy in a Connecticut elementary school has Americans looking for a better way to protect its school-age children. The brutality that occurred in Sandy Hook elementary school shook Americans to the core, making many people push for stricter gun laws. One proposal that has become popular is to allow faculty to have access to a gun in the classroom. “In response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 that left 20 children and six staff members dead, some school districts in Missouri have started training teachers to carry concealed weapons in classrooms” (Ashtari). Teachers should be armed for the children’s safety because it would make intruders think twice before entering the school. One advantage to having teachers carry guns is that criminals would not see schools as such an easy target and casualties will be reduced, especially if you could take down the shooter quickly before the shooter kills any more people. An armed teacher provides more immediate protection for the students than a police officer on the phone. It will take probably 5-10 minutes before the police will …show more content…
It is becoming more and more of an issue and you keep hearing about more school shootings every year, so why doesn’t everybody try to prevent it by supporting such a huge issue. Armed teachers would benefit the schools security system if they took the proper precautions and it would make parents and families feel better knowing that they are bringing their children to a school that has their students protected with the appropriate weapons or having their wife or husband going to work protected rather than worrying because of all of the school shootings lately. So if it wasn’t supported before, it should be
December 14, 2014
Analytical Writing
Theresa Schnieder
Armed Teachers
A recent tragedy in a Connecticut elementary school has Americans looking for a better way to protect its school-age children. The brutality that occurred in Sandy Hook elementary school shook Americans to the core, making many people push for stricter gun laws. One proposal that has become popular is to allow faculty to have access to a gun in the classroom. “In response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 that left 20 children and six staff members dead, some school districts in Missouri have started training teachers to carry concealed weapons in classrooms” (Ashtari). Teachers should be armed for the children’s safety because it would make intruders think twice before entering the school. One advantage to having teachers carry guns is that criminals would not see schools as such an easy target and casualties will be reduced, especially if you could take down the shooter quickly before the shooter kills any more people. An armed teacher provides more immediate protection for the students than a police officer on the phone. It will take probably 5-10 minutes before the police will …show more content…
It is becoming more and more of an issue and you keep hearing about more school shootings every year, so why doesn’t everybody try to prevent it by supporting such a huge issue. Armed teachers would benefit the schools security system if they took the proper precautions and it would make parents and families feel better knowing that they are bringing their children to a school that has their students protected with the appropriate weapons or having their wife or husband going to work protected rather than worrying because of all of the school shootings lately. So if it wasn’t supported before, it should be