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Originally Posted by Wisha Haddan H3
All humor aside, there's a lot of risk allowing teachers to carry handguns.
Just carrying a firearm doesn't make you competent in marksmanship, stress management, crisis management, fire suppression, threat incursion or coordination with police and SWAT. At the very least, police could mistake an armed teacher for the intruder. Plus, there are unstable people in every profession.
My point is that not everyone should be armed. I don't mind teachers carrying firearms ... but imo, they would have to register their carry weapon so the Principal and law enforcement know who's armed on campus. And they would need annual training in gun safety, marksmanship, crisis management and command & control with local police. They obviously would have to pass a criminal background check and have no history of domestic violence.
As for the 14-year-old saving his mom's life ... that is AWESOME. That took a lot of guts and composure under pressure.
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Some points I agree, some I don't. As for the background checks, I agree, but I believe in most states they do this now. Yes, if there is a COP on site and the principle as well as others would need to know which teach has a gun and who doesn't.
The Senator on TV stated it would be similar to the arming of pilots. Totally voluntary, with training. It would be used as the last line of defense. The defense of the kids being shot at by a nut with a gun, while everyone is waiting for the police to respond.
The important fact to remember, is the teacher with a legal gun, would have to abide by all state laws, and be aware, he or she may have to shoot a kid someday, in defense of other kids or adults. This would be the hardest part to overcome.
In most states, almost anyone can obtain a permit to carry a gun. In 2001, FBI statistics mentioned that 28 percent of handguns pulled on a criminal were taken away and used against the owner. However, that means 72 percent used the handgun in self-defense; whether they had to pull the trigger or not. (Note: the study mentioned that 17 percent of police officers also lost their gun to the criminal.)
Many carry a gun, but quite few will never pull the trigger even to save their life or the lives of their love ones.
Practice is good, since during a time of extreme stress when you have to pull a gun in defense, the response of pulling a gun is mostly muscle reaction; muscles trained by years of training*. However, shooting a paper target, does not condition someone to actually pull the trigger on another human being.
(*Years of training is not standing fifty feet away from a paper target. Years of training is defensive training developed and taught by places such as the SIG Academy in Exeter, NH., H&K Defensive Training, Ashburn, VA or Orbendorf, Germany, Thunder Ranch, FBI Training Facility in Quantico, VA. or Academy of Personal Protection and Security. These places are known by me, but there are plenty of other places across the USA.)