After watching this weeks president's weekly address with, for the first time a civilian, Francine Wheeler, mother of six-year-old Ben Wheeler who was tragically killed in the Sandy Hook shooting. She was encouraging the people to push for stronger gun control.You make watch the video at: Sandy Hook Victim’s Mother Calls for Commonsense Gun Responsibility Reforms
As I support the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, I am completely against the idea of putting guns in the hands of teachers. This puts immense responsibility and a potential liability on the teachers. Even though, with the numerous school shootings this has become a close debate. This would be putting the everyone in more danger.
Gun reforms necessarily will not help the situation. These people who are planning on attacking already have guns supplied, and if they don't they will always find a way around it to get what they need. The only way to prevent the outbreaks of shooting is to provide high security. Most of the people doing this are just driving by (Columbine High School Massacre in 1999), rarely do these people ever go into the school unless it is a student doing it (Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007).
Legislator Proposes Having Teachers Carry Guns also happened in 2006. It was obviously discussed and unapproved or else teacher would be concealing their guns. It overall is not safe. Let professionally, trained people secure the school and leave educating the students to the teachers.
