On a cruise ship a man let his friends know that he brought his pistol in his luggage. This was long ago when this was actually possible on cruise ships. His friend’s wife was very upset with him, you see, she hated the idea of guns. However one night she ran to his room and woke him, get your gun she said, someone is in our room and he is beating my husband. The story ends happily, and her husband was not too badly hurt, but when she needed a weapon, who did she run to? This guy with the gun was well trained, back then we had a shooting range at our workplace. But he did not even have to use the gun, just showing it was enough to stop the fight and have the guy taken into ship’s custody.
As I have said on other postings, I am now a retired teacher but I would have taken the training only to be able to protect myself and students in the classroom. The worst thing I can imagine in a school shooting situation is to have the shooter enter my room and all I could do was throw my computer at him. Given a choice to be armed, — or to have the teacher in the next room armed— or to wait for the police and crawl under a desk, what would most teacher’s prefer? I bet that is not the question they asked.
Yes! When it is your own fat in the fire, it would be better to have some recourse for self/student defense. That would go well beyond deputies waiting outside with no stake in the skin game.