What is your reaction to be arming teachers, staff, and administrators and other adults in school with guns? President Trump recently suggested providing teachers to carry guns around school campus. This decision brings a lot of risk with it. Some of the problems that this idea would bring is that it would make schools more dangerous, and jeopardize relationships between students and teachers.
To start off, having staff members and teachers walking around school with guns will put the school in far more danger that we already are. Teachers enter their career to teach children, as police officers choose to protect citizens by force if necessary. No amount of training will be enough for a teachers to grab their gun and answer to a mass shooting, instead one day the teacher may be out of the class or distracted, and the student might end up taking the gun and do something dumb with it, his
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“In an under-publicized study that appeared in the journal Pediatrics in 2001, Geoffrey Jackman and a group of his associates asked twenty-nine groups of two to three boys, most of whom were around ten to sixteen years old, to wait for fifteen minutes in a room with a one-way mirror. Two water pistols and an actual .380 caliber handgun were partially concealed in various locations in the room. The handgun was rigged to make the sound of discharge when the trigger was pulled with sufficient force, forty-eight out the sixty-four boys found the handgun. Thirty boys handled the gun. Sixteen boys pulled the trigger. Approximately half of the boys who found the gun thought it was a