When I first heard people talking about arming teachers in schools as a deterrent for school shootings I thought it was a good idea! Only for a very short moment in time until I thought about it and literally used logic and common sense in thinking it through! My ex husband and my husband are both war vets and many family members are too and I have several friends that have been in Iraq and Afghanistan also and several family and friends in law enforcement and they also do not agree with arming teachers! There are things that people do not even realize about aiming a gun at another human being and pulling the trigger! In most cases for military and law enforcement it is a stranger that they pull their weapon on and even some homeowners that have pulled a gun on a burglar BUT we are talking about a teacher who probably knows the shooter or taught the shooter at some point in their time at the school or the kids running for their lives they are trying to keep out of the line of fire! Teachers are already overworked and underpaid and now you are asking them to train to be able to carry a weapon and shoot a current or prior student! Officers and military are training for this all the time and according to several LE they would need 6 months of training so how are they training AND teaching????? Approximately 28% of the time trained professionals miss their target so you are hoping that a teacher that will not get the same type of training because of the length of time it takes and the fact that there is no way to teach and train enough to even get to the same point as military and LE! We are asking teachers to take a life or have theirs taken because of the split second they freeze because they are looking at a current or prior student that they should shoot to kill! The number of military and LE that end up with PTSD because of having to shoot another human being is extremely high as well as the suicide rate for them! As crappy as our mental health system is and a huge reason these mass shootings happen is due to mental health issues its not a very comforting thought for our teachers! If a teacher has to shoot someone they will more than likely NEVER teach again and even if they tried you need to remember that the students they teach more than likely saw their teacher who they liked and respected shoot somebody right in front of them and will now be afraid of that same teacher! I sure do not want our grandson (when old enough to go to school) to have a first grade teacher carrying a gun all the time! It is an absolute awful idea to have teachers carry! In my opinion from the start of school all the way through high school it would be bad and I don't like the thought of Colleges doing it but at least these students are adults!
This is NOT a deterrent and in fact could literally make things even worse! Think about it, the teachers are armed so then the person that is wanting to shoot decides against going into a school with armed teachers so they decide to do what the Vegas shooter did and shoot from a spot further away as people are going into or out of the school in large groups to take people out! We can have metal detectors and armed guards, etc, etc but until we get better mental health services and quit acting like mental health disorders are to be hidden instead of dealt with this will continue!
The safe rooms that I believe are being put in or developed in KS are a great idea because they are foremost weather safety related for some of the worst tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes and that can be the focus for the kids! Instead of having shooting drills at the forefront of their minds it can be weather drills and used for both! Parents need to become more involved with their children's lives where they know who they are interacting with and if they are victims of bullying or are actually being a bully! Schools when they claim to have a no tolerance policy about bullying need to follow through and discipline the bully instead of victimizing the victim all over again! Get these kids the help needed for their mental health!
Parents are too busy for their kids anymore it seems on one side and then there are the parents who think they know their kids every move and swear that their child would never do..... Unfortunately this happens more often than not and the kids pay the price! You have to actually pay attention and stay off your own phone and be a good example instead of worrying more about the phone in front of you instead of your children on the other side of that phone! Quit allowing your young children to play games like Grand Theft Auto and Sniper Rifle type games because it really is sad to see 3,4,5 plus year olds mad because they didn't "kill enough to get to the next level" and when asked why you allow these young kids to play the game you claim "it's just a game"! Not to those little ones because they can't tell the difference between reality and fiction and unfortunately we as a society have become so desensitized to everything that this is just beginning younger and younger when kids are allowed these things that young! No it is not just video games but movies and TV shows that the graphics have become way too realistic and even the news no longer blurs out certain things because it wouldn't be sensational enough! things have got to change and soon because we have become a society that cannot work together and our old bad history of hate is coming to the forefront again and this is not going to end well if we as parents, government and society in general do not stand up for what is right! Seriously! What happened!?!?!?!?
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