While most of states oppose arming teachers, there is a handful that have embraced the opportunity to provide a safe place for children with little to no backlash. Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas and Wisconsin have passed a law allowing teachers to conceal and carry weapons within certain conditions per state. Kansas will allow it only if the campus buildings do not have “adequate security measures” (Concealed Carrying On College Campuses 1). Which would be great and easy adapte into the smaller school districts enabling them to provide a form of protection, something is better than nothing right? Kansas has taken the situation one step further and have drafted a proposal making schools within their state lines “legally …show more content…
Another teacher states “Anyone who pushes arming teachers doesn’t understand and doesn’t understand our schools” (Johnson). His outlook on the situation is that schools are to be for learning and places of encouragement not for a “Rambo” type atmosphere. Again, this teacher turns the issue of protecting the students into a question of understanding the teachers and the complexities rather than looking at the issue at face value and focusing on a resolution of the need to protecting the children against mentally ill people trying to kill them. A very interesting poll was found during initial research, “six out of ten teachers think schools would become less safe if educators armed themselves, though seven out of ten think it would be effective in stopping the next mass shooting” (Abramson). Clearly a conflict in the poll results; teachers believe carrying guns will cause more violence, but also believe it will stop a mass shooting? How can this be? One teacher states “if I am armed and I have a weapon, my students no longer respect