Why Is It Important To Have Gun In Schools

Trusting someone with a gun. Many kids, especially boys, learn to handle their problems with their hands, not their minds. Hence, the elementary school mantra, “Use your words.” Still, children generally make good use of good counsel. The NRA recommends that SROs be employed not only to serve as guards and law enforcers, but also to serve as educators and informal counselors within the school. Educators and counselors who are armed leaves us to question not only the adequacy of their training, but also what it means that they counsel from a position of imminent force. Engaging children in meaningful dialogue on their level is hard work that requires translation, time, patience, and trust. How exactly is a kid supposed to understand that a relative stranger with a gun will offer trustworthy counsel? Children do not live with the same mental boundaries that we as adults live with.
What message does it send if we suggest through armed school personnel that our minds are not enough? “Clearly our students and staffs need to study, work, and play in safe surroundings; chances of having any breach of security need to be diminished. However, classroom teachers are not called to perform such duties.”, Lloyd E. Sheaffer. The students need to know that they are safe and with guns on campus they fear they are not safe. Kids also have a conscious too they know when something's up they will not feel safe with their conscious telling them they have guns around them. Today's teachers build emotional connections with their pupils; they encourage feelings of trust and confidence. Guns and other excessive security measures do not make kids feel safer and they increase their perception that they are unsafe," she said. If they have to go through metal detectors or pass by an armed guard, they believe they are not in a safe