[Barnacle]

I had a teacher who’d throw chalkboard erasers at kids. I can just imagine that guy packing heat. It would be a .44 Mag. for sure.

Seriously though, I’d say yes under certain circumstances. I wouldn’t want my kids going to a school where teachers were compelled to pack heat to begin with. But, such schools are out there and if you want teacher to teach there, you should allow them to defend themselves.

[Iwo Jima]

Your post is consistent with my own thoughts. A gun in the hands of someone who is not prepared to use it is a gun that is likely to be taken away by one of the bad guys and use for evil purposes.

If I ran a school, I would allow teachers to apply, qualify, and be trained to carry on campus. It would be their duty -- part of their unofficial job description -- to carry and to respond to threats. I would try to keep the ratio of carriers to something like 10%. AND the identity of the carriers would be known only to the principal and his assistants. That way, no one intent on evildoing could "take out" the armed personnel and maybe get a gun that way because they simply wouldn't know who they were.

Because it wouldn't be just teachers. The little gray haired librarian, a janitor, that lunchroom lady -- it could be anybody. That's the beauty of concealed carry. The bad guys have to guess who's carrying and who's not.

Now that's the kind of achool that I would want my child to go to. I would also like to see airlines adopt the same approach.