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Originally Posted by drugsarebad
Could someone in the "arm the teachers" camp tell me:
1. How many teachers are licensed to carry, what % of those teachers would avail themselves of the opportunity to bring their gun to school?
2. Is your specific argument that whatever your answer is to 1, this amount of armed teachers will 1) keep the innocent death to a minimum once a shooting happens, 2) deter psychopathic shooters from even entering a school in the first place, or both?
3. Are you willing to acknowledge a significantly non-zero risk of accidents or gun violence that otherwise wouldn't have happened resulting from teachers keeping a gun somewhere in their classroom?
And also, citation needed on this:
By state it's impossible to say considering you can't conceal carry in some states. It's probably different here in suburbs of Michigan.
Answer would be both. If you wanted to shoot up a school would you go into a school where you know no one is allowed to carry a gun and its a virtual lock to have zero opposition there or would you go to the school that allows teachers to carry and 1-8 teachers could have a gun.
Concealed carry has pretty much a zero risk of accidents. You could provide training for these teachers as well. I know firearm training companies here in Michigan that are willing to train teachers for a massive discount but its irrelevant because they're not allowed to carry either way. Basically the gun would be holstered the entire time and has no chance of going off while holstered. The gun would be kept concealed on the person in a holster, not just chilling in the desk.
Again this is not a one all solution but I believe could be a part of the solution along with a number of other things and could save and could have saved a lot of lives.
Obviously in regards to the citation it's not guaranteed but if teachers were allowed to carry and someone was carrying its very likely they would have stopped him. He is shooting and would not be able to hear a thing and would be relatively easy to catch him by surprise. If teachers were brave enough to take him on with out any weapon they surely they'd be brave enough to engage him of they had a gun.