Teachers Should Be Allowed To Carry Guns In Schools

I am writing to you concerning the issue of teachers allowed to carry guns in our schools, specifically grades kindergarten through eighth. As an eighth grader, I do not believe that teachers should be allowed to have a gun in school and also do not feel comfortable going to school in an environment that contains guns. Our country is at a point of crisis where we are trying to solve gun safety in schools, many people believe that arming teachers is the solution and some districts have already armed teachers. But is bringing guns into schools the solution, if we want to keep them away and out of schools? Many people want teachers to possess guns in schools as a way to keep the students safe, but it comes with many cons. Having students in an environment with guns is dangerous and students can get injured. Just recently on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 a teacher accidentally fired a gun in a classroom mildly injuring three students. An article by Star Telegram stated that “Alexander was pointing the gun at the ceiling Tuesday to make sure it was not loaded when it discharged inside his classroom at Seaside High School.” Although Alexander did not intentionally fire the gun, it is clear evidence of why …show more content…
Many of those districts live in very rural areas where it takes several minutes for police to reach the school and some don’t have a local police station at all, relying only on the county sheriff. These schools would need to take action before the law enforcement arrives which backs up why they allow teachers to have guns. But Keller ISD is not in that position and we do have a local police station nearby. We do not need teachers with guns to protect us, we need teachers to teach. What we need is campus security officers to protect us as they are trained to protect and defend the students and staff because that is their