Most of us remember a few teachers from grade school on up, armed with rulers, then boards. Now some want them to carry guns …. for our safety? NO! Teachers are supposed to be nurturers, supposed to be people that our kids can trust, and turn to for support. Some schools still use corporeal punishment; now students can also fear that the meanest teachers are ‘packing heat’? Even if all the level-headed, wonderful teachers across the nation could be trusted to never pull a gun on an unarmed student, how do they protect their firearms so that students can’t gain access to them? And the great safety training will be standard across our nation? Who remembers the ‘good guy with a gun’ …. the plain-clothed, black, armed serviceman who was shot down and killed by police, at a shopping mall, where the serviceman was spontaneously chasing down a murderous mall shooter?
Trish Forsyth Voss
May 24 2019
Do you think schools should allow teachers and staff members to carry guns?
Most of us remember a few teachers from grade school on up, armed with rulers, then boards. Now some want them to carry guns …. for our safety? NO! Teachers are supposed to be nurturers, supposed to be people that our kids can trust, and turn to for support. Some schools still use corporeal punishment; now students can also fear that the meanest teachers are ‘packing heat’? Even if all the level-headed, wonderful teachers across the nation could be trusted to never pull a gun on an unarmed student, how do they protect their firearms so that students can’t gain access to them? And the great safety training will be standard across our nation? Who remembers the ‘good guy with a gun’ …. the plain-clothed, black, armed serviceman who was shot down and killed by police, at a shopping mall, where the serviceman was spontaneously chasing down a murderous mall shooter?
Trish Forsyth Voss
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