The Pros And Cons Of Arming Teachers

This year alone there have been over twenty mass shootings (“2018 School Shootings”, Para. 1). Mass shootings have been a major problem for decades, it all started with the shooting at Columbine the most famous one. Ever since that shooting things have been spiraling out of control with no fix. The fix that we have needed for decades was arming teachers.Teachers should most definitely be armed because it would prevent more people from being killed, deter shooters from entering schools in the first place, and increase school safety overall. One of the main reasons teachers should be armed is because it would prevent deaths. Donald Trump states, “If you had a teacher that was adept with the firearm, they could end the attack very quickly” (“Trump arming teachers”, para. 2). President Donald Trump is one of the most famous supporters of the theory about arming teachers, and his quote strongly says that the quicker the shooting ends the less deaths. Armed staff on site could easily respond to the shooter quicker than a police could. (“Arming Teachers Pros”, 19-20). The longer it takes for the police to arrive the more people dead their are when the police arrive, while if we have trained teachers already on site than we are in much better shape reducing the amount of deaths. One of the few reasons why arming teachers is much needed is it will prevent more deaths to happen. The more teachers with a firearm the more people that will be saved. Arming teachers once again has many more benefits, and one of those being that it might even deter the shooter from entering schools in the first place. …show more content…
Arming teachers would prevent shooters from coming if they were looking for an easy target (Hagin, Para. 14). This intimidates the shooter because they know that they won't have an easy target at all and that they would most likely die. Matthew Santoni, a well known journalist states,“Gun-free zone to a maniac -- because they're all cowards -- a gun-free zone is 'let's go in and let's attack because bullets aren't coming back at us. If we did not arm teachers then the shooter would know that it is a gun free zone and come (“Arming Teacher Pros”, 18-19). Not arming teachers in this situation is an absolute disaster, thinking about it a shooter could come in as a free soul with no problem to kill anyone they see, but with teachers armed and trained then the teachers could easily rush to the situation and take care of it. With teachers armed everything is much better knowing that a shooter can’t walk in and shoot whoever they want. Arming teachers is one of the best solutions to the situation of mass shootings in school, not only are we saving kids but also our future. Zilinskas a senator said "I'm not just going to sit and hide and accept waiting, and seeing kids get shot or listening to kids die,” (“Arming teachers pros”, 35-36). Kids are the future to this generation, we can not let maniacs come in and kill off all students, it is immoral and the one thing we can do to change all of that is to arm teachers. Innocent lives are spared every shooting and we continue to do nothing