caryking said:
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packgrad said:
Steve Videtich said:
packgrad said:
Steve Videtich said:
The main concern I would have is the ability of an armed teacher to use it properly in an active shooter situation. I have heard of studies that talk about the low rate of accuracy that trained officers have in a high stress situation. So, how would a teacher perform in these situations?
I think that depends on the individual, the same as it does with a police officer.
Of course it does, as with anything. But, one is more trained than the other. I think it's a reasonable question. But, as we saw in Uvalde, you don't know how people will react when real bullets start flying.
States can mandate how much training the teachers receive. Uvalde just had their active shooter training in March.
And look how that went...
Exactly. There needs to be a threat of response on campus.
agree. I'd like to k ow how most accidental shootings do happen? Usually it's someone not being responsible or during cleaning and forget there's a chambered round.
I would think a teacher wouldn't have a side sark on her hip during class, but it would be in a locker or lockable drawer where they could get to it in an emergency.
And honestly, the threat of an armed persons on campus would deter 99.9% of people who thought about shooting at a school.
Will it really? We all want to blame this on the person being crazy with a death wish. Why would that person be deterred?
Now, IF they had to go thru a front door only and IF that door had a guard there, and IF that guard was awake and trained and engaged to be actionable, then yes, that likely helps.
Brett Jensen, a local reporter at WBT here in Charlotte has been reporting on all the guns found on campus this year in CLT --- 2 in the last week or of school totaled to 30 for the school year. All those kids had to know they were more likely than not to get caught, yet they brought guns to school anyway.
Now...woudl a properly armed teacher who responds properly help mitigate an actual event...maybe. But is that knowledge going to help prevent? I'm not sure.
Chem, we certainly don't know if teachers, being armed, will deter anything. So, that I agree with you. Now, we do know that teachers not being armed hasn't deterred any of the mass school shooting, right. Also, where do a lot of mass shootings happen? Well, they happen at schools, grocery/shopping stores, theaters, and other areas that do not allow guns on the premises. This doesn't include shooting in the inner-city... well, we don't care about them anyway 
So, at this point, what do we have to lose? I say, each State, that feels comfortable allowing Teachers to carry, they should do it...
The one in Tulsa happened at a hospital a couple weeks ago. Never been to a hospital where there weren't security guards (now, some looked like Asa, from the AG Show, but there were guards).
The one in Uvalde occurred in a school district that had its own police force. Call me crazy, but a thinking person might logically assume a school with its own police force would have a police officer at the school.
Look....I get your point that it may help. But, we also thought at some point that death penalty woudl help....but most people who are going to commit crimes aren't thinking that far down the road....so it doesn't help at all.
What do we have to lose? The 99% likelihood is nothing. But oh man, the day some teacher is getting harassed (we know how crazy difficult that must be) and decides to pull a gun, or to break up a fight, or heaven forbid, shoots at a kid with a gun and instead hits an innocent standing by...
*I get it, we can "what if" legislation to death.....I'll just say this -- how sad is it that we have ot have this debate.
