Argumentative Essay On Guns In Schools

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After the most recent mass school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, there have been increased arguments about how to solve gun control issues. One very controversial idea that President Donald Trump proposed, almost immediately after the Stoneman school shooting, was that he believed that arming at least 20% of our nation’s teachers would help solve all of our gun related school disasters. His argument is easy to disagree with because we the people, cannot believe that it would be the best solution for our nation. Having every teacher in America carry a gun during school is not economically feasible. Trump argues that teachers should be armed because having more people with guns in schools would deter shooters from wanting to attack (Korosec 1). However, we should not agree with what he is …show more content…

If he cannot undoubtedly show that a reasonable number of school personnel are prepared and/or qualified to carry a concealed weapon in a school, where there are hundreds and hundreds of young kids, then we as a nation cannot support him in this or believe that this is the best option for our country. Trump is presuming too much when he says that there are already almost enough teachers who have the right qualifications to carry a gun. There is no way or even any evidence that he has done backgrounds checks on every one of the nearly 3.1 million teachers that are currently employed in America to know who is or more importantly who isn’t mentally and physically able to take on this task. Therefore, we do not know for certain who would be the right candidates to carry guns in schools and we cannot just let anyone get trained to carry a gun because that would cause more problems instead of solving the ones we are already

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