We have to stop school shootings from being so devastating; teachers are our answer to this problem. School shootings rarely occur, but when that first shot is fired, there is no turning back. There has been many people trying to solve this problem, but the only solution that would work is slight different. Although most people do not want guns in schools, teachers will be our best security when they are armed with a firearm. The simplest solution to this problem is to outnumber the bad guy with good guys armed with guns.
School shootings have been happening since the 18th century. A possible solution to this problem has not ever been tried and everyone is suffering because most Americans are not educated enough on weapons, and how the good guys can use it to defend themselves. If most Americans knew how teachers would use the weapon has a way to defend themselves and the students, then I think this method would be in effect right now. People think that arming teachers is a way for more shooting to occur and more accidents to happen, in which they are wrong. Teachers would have to have the weapon locked up in a gun safe until it is time to take it out and use it. Teachers and students are sitting ducks when a shooter comes into a school. Just as Representative Mark McCullough said “It is incredibly irresponsible to leave our schools undefended—to allow mad men to kill dozens of innocents when we have a very simple solution available to us to prevent it” (1). As of now, teachers are unarmed and have no method of defense, although they do tell all the students to hide in the classroom and lock the door, that won’t stop a determined shooter from getting into the room. Students and staff would have a better chance of su...
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... school. Robert McDonnell said, referring to Sandy Hook’s principal, “If a person like that was armed and trained, could they have stopped the carnage in the classroom? Perhaps” (2). In the near future, hopefully someone proposes this law again and it passes, so that the current students are safer and the future generations feel comfortable going to school without worrying.
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Michael Eisinger an eighth grade science teacher says, "If a gunman is going to cause violence in a school, they are going to have the element of surprise," "My guess is that they would still be able to shoot teachers, students or whoever else they wanted before some sort of coherent response materialized. (Huffington Post) Arming teachers isn’t going to solve the problem. We still will end up with deaths in schools. The gunman may decide to take the professors gun as well, which will result in the enemy having another harmful weapon.
That is why Rebekah Elliott’s article “The Real School Safety Debate: Why Legislative Responses Should Focus on Schools and Not on Guns” would be valuable to include. Elliot writes that to properly provide safety into schools is to put more funding into higher security and individual school safety programs. Like many writers, she agrees that the Sandy Hook incident shifted America’s views on the second amendment but she believes that having armed teachers could be a safety risk in itself. Her argument is that although it would be more cost efficient to arm teachers than to hire more security, it could increase the liability for negligence if there was a result in injuring a student (2015
Throughout the years of education, kids go to school to get an education, to hang with friends, to get excise, and many other things. America should have armed officers in in public schools. Since kids are spending a majority of their time throughout the day and year at school, they should feel safe in that environment. That can soon change with school security falling behind with this current growth of school shooting. Schools shootings have begun occurring more often in the United States from elementary schools all the way up to colleges. How should school systems fix this problem? One solution that could be the most effective is having multiple armed officers in schools. Let’s begin with some major school shootings that were lacking armed officers, when the resource officer successfully stopped a potential shooting, and reasons why we should have an armed officer.
There's a problem in America. Children, defenseless are being shot one by one. They go to their school and the schools are a gun free zone. The shooters take advantage of it and take the children's lives. Teachers should be able to carry a handgun to protect their children. This is very important, to all teachers and students for their safety. Shooters wouldn't come in the school knowing that the teacher had a gun. Students would feel way safer. There would be a lot of safety that would go into this.there are a lot of facts that can help us make the decision.
... a high school student, I don’t take much stock in the safety codes and drills in place to keep students safe in the event of a shooting. I would feel much safer knowing my teacher has the ability to protect the class, rather than hide and lock the door. An educator is responsible for the students in their class. They are responsible for their education and their safety while the children are in their classroom. The safety of fifteen or more students would be much more easily secured by one person if that person was armed. Promoting teachers to arm themselves also prevents school shootings; criminals don’t attack a victim that can fight back. At least 60% of school attacks would be prevented with an armed faculty warning sign. School faculty members should be armed to secure the safety of the countries students, and in hand prevent the majority of potential shootings.
School shootings are still happening and we have to put a stop to it. We need to have these teachers prepared and ready to fight. Students to deserve to have their lives out to rest knowing something could have been done that’s why we need to have these teachers armed. This is a cold world if someone enters a school with a weapon teachers need to have their weapon ready too for the sack of their children. A school is a fun place to learn but to also keep safe. This is why teachers should be armed.
Teachers play a very important role in our kid’s lives on a daily basis. Not only are they there as educators, but they are also there as protectors as well, especially for our younger students. They are not only there to watch over them and make sure that they get home safely, but they are there to protect them from any harm, including a gunman. If a gunman were to enter the school and some if not all of the teachers were licensed to carry, he could be stopped before harming or even killing several people, including our children.
Gun laws are an important key to consider. There are pistols and machine weapons as well. If a teacher were to carry a gun, it would be a handgun type and an attacker could easily carry a machine weapon. A handgun is hardly a legitimate defense mechanism against a machine gun. A machine gun can carry forty five to sixty rounds, whereas a handgun can only carry about nine bullets (Glennon). If a machine gun that an attacker brings has that many bullets and is automatic, a pistol isn’t going to do anything unless shot first. Also the government interferes in the problem of guns because the need for gun control. “Roughly sixteen thousands two hundred and thirty seven murders were committed in the United States in 2008 of these about ten thousand two hundred eighty-eight, or 67% were committed with firearms” (Agresti,Smith). Also the government has right to carry laws which enables citizens the right to carry a firearm if one can pass a background check and a gun safety course. Forty out of the United States fifty states has agreed to let people who meet certain criteria to carry firearms, and the other ten are indecisive or completely disagree (Agresti,Smith). This shows that the population as a whole has the right to carry guns if legally allowed, but not teachers just because s...
Schools were once traditionally viewed as a safe place for children, teenagers, and adults. The educational setting coupled with community involvement gave no reason for violence to occur in schools. As years progressed, the occurrence of violence in school shocked communities across the nation, calling for state lawmakers and school districts to produce a solution to prevent these acts from occurring. Events such as the 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado urged schools throughout the U.S. to increase their security measures with more stringent policies and procedures while spending millions of dollars on security equipment from security cameras to metal detectors. While schools increase their safety measures to prevent another major incident from occurring, such as a suspect with a firearm (active shooter) from entering school property, some of the security measures have not been effective. An example is the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, where the shooter was able to bypass a locked door which is one of the security measures the school had in place, making personnel visiting the school required to request entrance into the building (Barron).
In the past years, there have been many school shootings that have happened. People are starting to think that arming teachers will stop school shootings. Others are opposed to arming teachers for many reasons. Armed teachers could stop or create more violence in schools. Due to all the recent school shootings, many people believe school teachers should be allowed to carry weapons, others believe it would lead to more shooting incidents.
On December 12, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School was invaded by an unstable, armed man. Earlier that year the principal of the school, Dawn Hochsprung, implemented a new security system that required all visitors to buzzed into the school by visual identification. Many schools have also put in similar security systems to have school doors locked at all times during the school day, helping insure students’ safety. For Sandy Hook this minor security system would not be enough. When the gunman arrived to the school, he shot his way through the front do...
In today’s world most schools do not have any form of security other than leaving the doors locked during the school day. Locking the doors can keep non students out of the building but it can’t stop students on the inside from taking out guns and shooting others. On the day of the Columbine High School shooting the two students were able to just walk right into their school and that’s when they began killing. If schools had every single student and staff member walk through a metal detector, everyone would feel a lot safer going to school. The federal government should ensure the safety of students and teachers by providing schools with this equipment to end any possible chance of another school shooting. School safety is important and that’s why schools require you to do fire drills and evacuation drills, but to really be sure the students and staff are safe, metal detectors at the entrance doorways of schools should be required to detect guns, knives and other weapons that could potentially harm
Imagine walking down the hallway with a group of your friends while you're changing classes, and out of nowhere you hear people yelling that there is a lockdown because someone has broken into the school. As hectic as everything is, you try to get to safety while the sound of gunshots fills our ears. You look back while trying to escape and the gunshots are getting closer and BAM! You look back and there they re the group of friends you were walking with collapsed on the floor. You panic and immediately run out of the school. There are many ways to reduce school shootings like having the teachers armed ,and having any type of scanner at the doors.
Why do parents have the need to buy a firearm?The kids see that their parents have a gun so they think it’s okay to have a gun and use it. While gun can be used for safety, parents should not buy a gun cause most of the school shootings come from children with parents that have a gun because it would give them a less chance of using it in school, The children would not think about doing anything with it, and If the parents did not have a gun children would not have a temptation to use it at school at all.
Allowing teachers to carry guns could help lower school shootings. “While some believe tighter gun controls are the answer, others believe the best solution comes in giving more people — like teachers and administrators — more training and more access to firearms that can save lives as well as take them away” (Evensen guns and teachers). “Our organization