The Pros And Cons Of Arming Teachers

Is arming our teachers really a good idea? As you may have heard over the news, Donald Trump has proposed that arming teachers would be the best solution for the irrational amounts of school mass shootings. Students from Stoneman Douglas High School had made this issue a whole lot more relevant by marching for their countless fellow peers that had been shot down on February 14th of this year. I strongly believe that arming teachers would be completely absurd and illogical. Arming them could result in situations where the teacher could shoot their own students, violence certainly does not solve violence, and are teachers really prepared to shoot? Firstly, arming teachers could potentially backfire because the teacher might be having a bad day or might just have some sort of mental illness which would cause them to shoot their own students. Teachers can commonly get annoyed with their students or have the blues some days, and in a situation where the teacher is armed, could possibly lead to harm. For example, a professor might have just been dumped out of a relationship and her class is being noisy, that could trigger her to grab the gun and start shooting. Armed teachers could shoot their own students out of annoyance or stress and anxiety. …show more content…
It will just result in violence against violence which would just result in a more chaotic and corrupted world. Imagine that a school shooter comes to your classroom and starts shooting. Your teacher grabs the gun and starts shooting back and now everyone is just praying that their teacher doesn’t get shot. What are the chances of a teacher against a shooter, who most likely has experience with a gun? It would just result in the teacher being more vulnerable and helpless. Teachers being armed will not guarantee safety for anyone and will just result in a battle to who dies or gets shot