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Originally Posted by MrMaxwell
We can't afford armed guards in every school. If we had them, any accidental deaths would be so extremely rare that the lives saved would far far far outnumber them.
You or anyone would agree that police officers running around with guns hasn't caused more accidental deaths than it has saved innocent lives, right? And that is even considering that most of them are the worst shooters on earth.
I am saying that adults who work in schools should have the choice and be allowed to arm themselves. Calling for a mandate to arm faculty is a far cry from what I'm talking about. I am saying that if someone on our side is in there armed, we at least have a CHANCE.
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While you could make the argument that allowing adults who work in schools to carry guns could help, I personally would likely be more worried about sending my kid to a school where the staff was packing than risking the very unlikely chance someone is going to shoot up the school.
I look back on my high school and there really were only a couple of teachers that I would have felt comfortable with being armed. Many of my teachers were odd, burned out or simply didn't care. Also, having a gun and properly using it when needed are two different things. If you are armed and you hear gunfire in another area of the school you have to be willing to move towards it, put yourself in harms way, and shoot the person responsible for it. Most people aren't built that way. They would hear the gunfire and haul ass to protect themselves or they would get themselves and the students in their area out.
Sure, maybe a teacher could take one of of these shooters out and it could reduce the amount of damage done, but in my mind the potential for other bad things to happen (like in the chaos the teacher shoots the wrong person) or nothing to happen are just as likely.