Argumentative Essay: Gun Control In Schools

Besides essential skills of firearms, teachers have to have a stable mentality to completely control the shooting or gun violence. Teachers are not always mentally prepared to handle stressful situations, like school shootings because their strength is to teach rather than to seek out for opportunities to use guns in schools (Oltman 172-176). If not having a stable and calm mentality, teachers would not remember what they have learned in firearms training courses, and then they would react as naturally as people, who have never been any training. Moreover, when joining the gun control courses, teachers practice using guns with comfort because they know that they are practicing in made-up situations. Then, how can they remain calm and accurately shoot the right targets in stressful situations like violence on campus? They

Not all teachers have the same kind of physicality qualifications as police officers in order to handle situations that are involved with guns. Police officers have to use their special skills, such as self-defense and a proficiency with guns, to keep safe for the society in emergencies, and teachers use their knowledge and their dedication to nurture the future of students. Specifically, police officers have to solve problems rationally, and they do not let their emotion at the moment to interrupt their jobs. Nevertheless, the way that teachers think might be different from the police officers at some point, and eighty hours training is not long enough for teachers’ mindset to adapt to a part of a mindset of the police officer, such as using rational thought to handle with a serious problem. Russ Moore, who is the principal of Shaker Junior High School in Latham, New York, said that “changing laws to allow educators to be armed in schools is flatly bad policy and a bad idea” due to the fact that “most [teachers] would not have rational thought [in stressful situations like school violence]”