I mean, asking teachers to all carry and be comfortable using a firearm is kind of like asking all police officers to be trained in and capable of diagnosing and dealing with people with mental health issues. Let's be realistic. A weekend gun class is going to train someone to do something that the ****ing police on site were too afraid to do? Miss me with that nonsense.
People bristle at the idea of restructuring how the police force is trained and funded, yet still want to use mental health as an excuse for why guns aren't the problem. I own guns, pro gun rights, but why can't we look at changing a system that seems to fail a ton of people it's supposed to protect? Why can't we look at ways to better control or limit access to weapons? Why can't leo be redistributed in ways to potentially protect more vulnerable people from violence, and allow trained professionals to help deal with and perhaps preemptively identify mental health cases properly? Because that's not how it's always been done? It emasculates the police force or something? Because you may have a few less weapons to angrily shoot at the nuke dropping on you in the event a conflict ever escalates to the US? I legitimately don't understand.
Teachers with guns lol. I just picture my 65 year old 2nd grade teacher trying to pull a gun out to stop an armed shooter. You guys are really grasping at straws with that one.
I hate the "all teachers should have guns argument." I think it was stated above, but a lot of people are not, nor ever will be, comfortable handling a firearm.
I just think that teachers in all schools should be allowed to carry and that they are able to receive free training to help in shooter situations if it's something they wish to take on. It's the Gun Free Zone stuff that makes me crazy. If a teacher feels competent enough they should be entirely allowed to protect their students with the best tools available to them.
As a college instructor I have to sit through all kinds of mindless trainings and am also required to seek out other trainings to improve my ability not only to teach my trade, but also to deal with student stress, emotions, suicide, Etc. Why isn't it also encouraged that I take an occasional class on how to best physically protect those students as well.
Sorry that was a long winded way to say:
No one should be required to carry protection, but it should be an option, and training should be readily available.