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I appreciate the point of arming school staff. I think this is one thing of many things that could be a solution to stop the monsters but....has anyone asked the actual teachers if they want to be armed though? I did. I asked 9 staff members at my kids' school. 2 said they already have firearms at home. 1 said she would not feel comfortable having to engage an active shooter while trying to manage a class of panicking students. The other said she would consider it but she has a lot of reservations & concerns. The rest said they studied to be teachers & they signed up to teach, they did not study to be police officers & take down a threat while trying to control their frantic crowd of students. l asked on Facebook and Miss Jessica replied: In sorry, but all this for the lowest professional pay on Earth? You must think us teachers are magic unicorn super spy mercenaries. Silly me- studied how kids learn to read instead. Its ok to put this in the job description, but I better get combat pay as well.
And Miss Trish said: I don't understand when it became part of a teacher's job to be personal bodyguards and security teams for kids. Isn't their job to teach? Instead of hanging out online calling people names & blaming this or that & only talking about personal responsibility, how about we take some personal responsibility by at least talking TO the teachers and staff that we are talking ABOUT.

This is where people are not listening and instead hearing what they want to hear. No one is saying a teacher must be armed. What is being said is if you are a school employee and you can pass a background check or get a concealed carry permit and you would like to participate, YOU CAN! No extra pay, but I do think local law enforcement should provide some basic training a little above and beyond a conceal carry class. Perhaps allow them to use Law Enforcement ranges on weekends or something.

NO ONE is saying that all teachers must be armed. Same thing with the FFDO program that arms pilots, some participate and others don't and a terrorist never knows who is armed and who is not.

ETA: I am not directing that at you but the teachers and lefties who seem to want to shoot down this idea of arming teachers. If 2 out 9 are willing to do this, that may be about all you need. Just knowing that there are armed teachers at the school would deter most of this crap.