There are teacher who would give their lives to protect their students so why not let them carry guns. There are 28 states that allow teachers to carry gun on campuses if they have a private conceals weapon license. There are open records laws in these states that don’t require the teacher and staff to tell the principals, other teachers or parents that they are carrying weapons. How safe is that?
After the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School prompted five states to give school administrators the authority to allow their teachers to carry weapons. The teachers that carry the weapons have to go through specific training. But even without training they can still carry the guns …show more content…
But should we add that kind of pressure on a teacher. One of the cons would be, what if the teacher is having a bad day or something is going on in their lives that they can’t deal with. Do we went a teachers with issues to carry a gun to class? Can we trust that person to do the right thing?
There are school and congress are looking at way to help protect students. There is a bill in the state Senate Education Committee that would allow school faculty to carry guns in schools. This bill is to protect students and teachers. There are still people who don’t believe in the bill. They believe that allowing facility to carry weapons on campus wouldn’t make it safer but cause more problems.
After the shooting at Columbine former police officer Greg Crane and his wife, who is an elementary school principal founded the ALICE Training Institute. They designed a training program for school that would teach staff how to confront intruders without using weapons. Greg Crane and many other people don’t believe that carrying a weapon is a good idea. Some questions that has come to the forefront are “way are we asking teacher to be security guards, if there’s a shooting in another part of the school, what are the teacher supposed to do? Leave their students to go take care of the problem? ALICE Training Institute has trained teacher in 49