Should Teachers Bring Guns to School

Jacobi Matthews

March 2, 2011

Mrs. Gray

H. English IV/ D3

Should Teachers Be Allowed to Bring Guns to School

When you think of school, a safe environment for students to learn comes to mind. When you think of a gun, you think of violence, danger, unsafe environment. Therefore an environment for safe learning should not have guns. The question is should teachers be allowed to bring guns to school. Honestly, there is no reason as to why teachers should be allowed to bring guns to school. The school system hire school security for a reason and it’s dangerous that they can walk around the school with guns. That can make a student uncomfortable, and if a teacher brings a gun to school what does that say to the student.

Most school systems hire police or some type of security to watch after students during the day. Security should be enough protection, so a teacher still shouldn’t feel the need to carry a gun. It’s still not fully safe for a security to carry a gun. On January 27, 2011 a policeman was arrested for shooting his gun inside of a school building. Not only did he fire his weapon, he also lied about the situation. If the same situation took place and a teacher had control over the gun it actually could have been worse, because a school policeman just watch over the student who are most likely in the hall, a teacher actually is in class with the students.

All this going on around a student could make them very uncomfortable. Personally speaking, I wouldn’t want to come to class everyday if I know my teacher had a gun in the class. The fact that a gun is in the class can mess with a student’s learning, because instead of focusing on their lesson, they would be focusing on the danger they could possibly be in. As student, we should feel comfortable around our teachers if we don’t feel comfortable around anyone else; teachers bringing guns to school shows students that they don’t trust them nor feel comfortable around them. How are students suppose to trust their teacher if their teacher don’t trust them? The idea of teachers bringing guns to school would change the entire prospective of school. When you are at school it shouldn’t feel like your in jail.

The biggest question is why would a teacher feel the need to carry a gun? If the school do what they are suppose and have security checks in the morning, this wouldn’t be an issue. There isn’t anything I can think that a student can do that would make a teacher want to pull a gun out. Any negative situation that takes place when the student is out of hand can be handled many other ways without using a gun. Ever since school has been open, there was never a need for a teacher to bring a gun to school. Yes, incidents have happened such as students who have brought a gun to school and have went on rampages, but I believe if there were security searches those mornings; those incidents could have been avoided.

The whole idea of teachers having weapons in the class sets a bad example for the students. If a teacher feels the need to have a gun in a class, in makes at no different from a student feeling the same ways. Students may even have more problems were they may feel the need to have a gun than a teacher would with situations such as bullying and gang activities. A teacher having a gun in the class may even provoke a student to bring a gun to class. It may make a student feel like there is no other than with violence. They already see violence everyday so they need to see something different at school, since it’s suppose to be a safe environment. They need to see something positive.

Teachers are humans too. They make mistakes just like everyone else. One day a teacher may snap and uses the gun on a student. Just because they are certified and eligible to teach a student doesn’t mean that they won’t make humanly mistakes. Something can be going on inside that teacher’s mind which causes them not to think straight, which may cause them to commit a crime they didn’t mean to commit, or take there frustrations out on the students.

In conclusion, it would unnecessary for teachers to bring a gun to school. It could be just as dangerous as a student bringing a gun to school. A teacher can be just as careless as anyone else who carries a gun. In the end, teacher shouldn’t need gun due to fact school systems already have a protection system. Violence isn’t needed, especially in school.