Should Teachers Be Armed In Schools

On December 20th 2012, an armed gunman walked into Sandy Hook elementary school and shot twenty seven children. This event had a huge impact on people’s emotions. However this is not the first shooting that has happened in schools. Furthermore, bullets are not the only weapons that are being carried into school campuses and class rooms. These types of crimes have happened too many times in the 20th century and this shows how weak the school safety plans are. In order to decrease the cases of violence in public schools: more police officers should be hired, metal detectors should be posted, teachers should be armed with Tasers, more cameras should be installed in classrooms and other places, and parents should be educated on their role in keeping

In order to make schools more and more safe, teachers should be armed. "Our children are grossly unprotected from an active violent threat," said Rep. Mark McCullough, R-Sapulpa, who introduced the bill in part as a response to the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. "We don't need to be willfully ignorant of the fact that this could happen." Armed teachers can play a big role in school safety; they can stop any crimes and deal with emergency cases. "Principals and office staff should be trained and armed," wrote Shelia Fleming-Herman of Huntsville. Guns are not necessary to be the first option for a teacher in an emergency case; teachers can be armed with Tasers or pepper spray. Not like any other gun, a Taser or a pepper spray doesn’t make a student fear or panic whenever it’s showed. Tasers are small enough and helps to shut down any attack immediately without any long time injuries. “A taser is designed to send electrical currents to a person’s muscular system and constrict the muscles used for motor functions. A standard police taser contains 2,500 bolts of electricity. That is enough ampage to take down a man 6 feet tall, weighing 200 pounds! Tasers are used nationwide by police, security guards, and citizens alike.” Teachers should also be trained how to use it the right way to provide protection to

Many school administrators say that video cameras makes schools safer and cuts down on any number of crimes from gangs to theft to violence. Cameras should be installed as a part of school safety systems or as streaming webcams that are connected to specific websites which are controlled by a specific number of officers. After testing cameras in certain places which showed positive results in schools now cameras should be installed in classrooms. "The children are very happy here because they know they are on a school site where they are safe. They are in a position where they are not going to be robbed and harassed and so on. The parents are very happy with it. We've had no complaints from the teachers ... they were the ones who suggested the cameras as a solution to people coming into the building, and disputes and problems with theft." An additional benefit of cameras in schools is to prevent cheating, since cameras are able to identify cheating more easily than teachers. Cameras also help solving problems and conflicts that happened in the classroom "It's like truth serum," said Laurie Pitre, principal of North Bay Elementary "When we have a he-said, she-said situation, nine times out of 10 all we have to do is ask children if they want us to go back and look at the camera, and they 'fess up." More cameras should also be installed in parking lots, in hallways and cafeterias specifically. "If