In response to:
"I am to the right of Free Republic, and I teach. By the way, there ARE a number of conservative teachers. You'll just never see or hear them in the media.
A main reason it is not sensible to arm teachers, as I have posted elsewhere, is the responsibility to safeguard a firearm in a room full of children cannot fall to girls in their early 20s with some quick rush training procedure. However I am all for having a good number of key personnel armed."
Agreed, my wife teaches also and though I have taught her how to shoot and protect herself, most young educators wouldn't have the experience and training needed to counterattack. A well trained group of teachers,(like armed forces veterans) with quick access to a weapons vault, could possibly defuse a situation a little faster. Vigilance by educators as well as parents and their children can go along way towards thwarting a situation but a fast response force is needed when things intensify quickly. Fortunately, we live in a small town and things out of the ordinary are noticed fairly quickly, but I do sympathize with the larger Metro areas. It would almost be impossible to recognize a threat before hand...eternal vigilance is the key along with educating our children about the threats that could confront them and action plans for emergencies.
You are delusional. Your post makes so much common sense that no thinking teacher or educator would follow it.
People defending themselves??? Are you crazy
A teacher shooting a gun??? Guns cause violence - didn't they tell you that??
Don't you know it is always better to succomb to the attacker than to, God Forbid, attack the attacker??
You know this is sarcasm - right????
It is against the law, of course, to bring firearms onto a college campus. It is possible, however, for certain faculty members to do so, with a written waiver from the Chief of Police. I have such a waiver, but it only applies to my vehicle. I have an AK-47 locked in my trunk and a colleague has 2, with one being for use by an especially trusted grad student. One of the doctors at the university hospital routinely carries half a dozen assorted guns in his car, without a waiver. We don't answer to the NEA/K-12 establishment, however.