71% of active school shooters can flee the scene, while 32% are never even caught. This alarming fact leaves parents, family, and friends of K-12 students alert when sending their children off to school each morning. To prevent school shootings, districts have been allowing teachers to arm themselves in the classroom. With this policy in place, school shootings and fleeing perpetrators will be threatened, even if they attack the school in the first place. Teachers have to protect their children, and carrying a firearm creates a vast amount of safety and stability for the students in the classroom. Teachers should carry firearms with them. With the rise in school shootings and threats in schools in the past decade, all students need to be protected.
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By ensuring that only qualified individuals are allowed to carry firearms, schools can alleviate the risks associated with introducing weapons into the educational system In certain cases, law enforcement may not be able to arrive at the scene quickly enough to prevent and de-escalate a school shooting. Thwart says Harrods' teachers must protect their students. The school is 30 miles from the nearest police station. "The only thing you'll get if you scream out here is a rattlesnake or a coyote looking your way," he says” (Scholastic). Some school districts in more rural areas are scared that if a threat enters the building, they have too much time to harm the student and facility before police are on the scene. The fear is logical, for a school 30 miles away from a police station, they would rather run the risk of having to defend themselves than wait for responders who are already too late. By making it known that either your school or school district allows for personnel to carry firearm, attacks are less likely to occur. By creating this scare factor “Would-be shooters, know that they are less likely to be confronted by armed …show more content…
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who recently proposed a bill to eliminate gun-free school zones” (Blad). This idea of a scare factor is real, as in the Sandy Hook incident in 2012 the shooter originally went to the high school but soon realized he would be stopped after seeing armed police officers, He instead went to the elementary school where 26 innocent lives were lost. Some critics often argue that the presence of guns could undermine the trust and sense of community within schools. This argument is groundless as no teacher will be armed with a firearm that isn't properly trained, checked, and mentally sane.“Two weeks of intensive deadly force, firearms, and tactics training would put these volunteers at skill parity with the best-trained rookie police officer. The armed teachers would not be identified, except to one another, senior administrators, and on-campus police and security personnel” (Ayoob). While it is likely that the kids will go around trying to find out "which teacher carries" guidelines and personal security, the only way students would find out would be in an active shooting
By ensuring that only qualified individuals are allowed to carry firearms, schools can alleviate the risks associated with introducing weapons into the educational system In certain cases, law enforcement may not be able to arrive at the scene quickly enough to prevent and de-escalate a school shooting. Thwart says Harrods' teachers must protect their students. The school is 30 miles from the nearest police station. "The only thing you'll get if you scream out here is a rattlesnake or a coyote looking your way," he says” (Scholastic). Some school districts in more rural areas are scared that if a threat enters the building, they have too much time to harm the student and facility before police are on the scene. The fear is logical, for a school 30 miles away from a police station, they would rather run the risk of having to defend themselves than wait for responders who are already too late. By making it known that either your school or school district allows for personnel to carry firearm, attacks are less likely to occur. By creating this scare factor “Would-be shooters, know that they are less likely to be confronted by armed …show more content…
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who recently proposed a bill to eliminate gun-free school zones” (Blad). This idea of a scare factor is real, as in the Sandy Hook incident in 2012 the shooter originally went to the high school but soon realized he would be stopped after seeing armed police officers, He instead went to the elementary school where 26 innocent lives were lost. Some critics often argue that the presence of guns could undermine the trust and sense of community within schools. This argument is groundless as no teacher will be armed with a firearm that isn't properly trained, checked, and mentally sane.“Two weeks of intensive deadly force, firearms, and tactics training would put these volunteers at skill parity with the best-trained rookie police officer. The armed teachers would not be identified, except to one another, senior administrators, and on-campus police and security personnel” (Ayoob). While it is likely that the kids will go around trying to find out "which teacher carries" guidelines and personal security, the only way students would find out would be in an active shooting