Pakistan Arms Teachers to Protect Schools

Ammoland ^ | 25 February,2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The Khyber Pakhtunkhua provincial government of Pakistan has its taken steps to make its schools harder targets for terrorists.  In December of 2014, it suffered the worst terrorist attack in the nation's history when seven foreign naitonals attacked the Army Public School in Peshawar, the provincial capital.  The seven terrorists killed 141 people, 132 of them school children.  The attack may have been modelled after the Beslan school attack in 2004.  The Government of Kyber Pakhtunkhua has had a different response than the Russian one.  The Kyber government has authorized its teachers and other employees to carry guns.  An editorial writer in Pakistan disagrees with that decision.   From dailytimes.com.pk:

The Khyber Pakhtunkhua government after the APS attack decided to allow employs of all educational institution including teachers to carry licensed arms on the premises to respond in cases of terrorist attack. Carrying guns remained common after Charsadda attack. Although self-defense is crucial, at a larger sense its state responsibility unharming its institutions and citizens. With regard to education institutions, the respective administration should have a tight security management instead of allowing teachers to carry arms.

Somehow, the writer thinks that allowing people to be armed to defend themselves is harming them.  At least that is how I interpret the statement

"..its state responsibility unharming its institutions and citizens."

Allowing people to defend themselves seems to many to be the highest order of good, not harm.  Pretending that the state can protect them better than themselves is a high level of harm.  A little Internet searching confirmed that this has been the policy for more than a year.  From dawn.com:

[marktwain]

Allowing school staff to be armed to add security to schools is real common sense.

The idea that arms add danger instead of security is a modern mythology promoted by the left.

[Pollster1]

It’s about time they showed a little common sense. A good guy with a gun is a whole lot better than a good guy with nothing but prayers to “Allah”.

[DoughtyOne]

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[cloudmountain]

Allowing school staff to be armed to add security to schools is real common sense.
The idea that arms add danger instead of security is a modern mythology promoted by the left.

All you say is true.
Nevertheless, it's a sad commentary on the chaos in Pakistan.

Children ought to be able to grow up feeling loved and wanted, of course, but they also ought to grow up feeling secure, safe and protected. Our Western children generally have that compared to other continents, so when I see these young women, undoubtedly mothers, having to ARM themselves for children/self protection I feel a certain sadness that THIS is their lot in life.

[CrazyIvan]

The one on the right definitely got first choice.