I think they need to make a law that anyone making a GUN FREE ZONE needs to be required to provide armed guards for that zone to keep it safe.
IMO, armed guards in gun free school zones makes more sense. It is suppose to be a gun free zone, and yet kids are still caught with guns in schools. We would be assuming that guards would be able to check and detect a concealed gun on a kid in school and not just stopping a random shooter.
Having taught secondary school for 5 yeatrs, driven a school bus for 4 years and then working juvenile cases for 20 more, kinda gives me some insight at least in this rural area. Wife was also an elementary teacher for 32 years. Many of the schools here had no fences or even security until about 5 years ago. Even so, the gates at all the entrances in the fence were OPEN until enough irate parents making threats of violence forced the district to order the gates closed. After that, anyone entering had to check in, but there was still no armed security. Just an off dury officer in a unifoerm with a radio at her elementary and one in a guard house checking cars at the local high school. Not armed either. Older kids still drove cars in with guns in them. At least if the guys at the high school had firearms, he might stop a random shooter that had no business there at the check in.
The bus runs I did were whole other story. Rural areas, rough people, kinda wish I was armed. Like a bunch of drunks wanting to bash me over the head with axe handles cause I ran over their old **** hound. Don't know why they sent me to pick up their kids cause they hardly ever went to school. When they were there, they usually got suspended. Also would have to worry about being disarmed by fighting gang kids. Potential lawsout there if anyone got shot with a weapon I lost control of. They finally got a bus monitor to do discipline while I drove. The monitor gave up and quit after 2 months.
Even with all the training needed, there is always the possibility of someone loosing control of a weapon in the school. I am assuming that concealed carry for teachers would be all the time. Or check them in or out at the office like an overhead projector? Ya just can't "leave it in yer desk" like like your stapler while ya go to the bathroom. Gotta take it. Or to just tell another teacher that doesn't carry or student to hold your gun for you while you go stop a fight.
yeah, concealed carry at school had crossed my mind at times cause I was there for a while. Not as long as my wife, but I still handled some of the crininal garbage that the school couldn't handle after I started working for the court system.
But even if I was teaching again and allowed to carry, I would be uneasy about actually doing it. i would do my best at keeping my weapon under my control at all times.. But would everyone else that was carrying be as responsible with their weapon? Supervising kids, monitoring, grading, etc. is what teachers are suppose to do. Now I would be adding the job of an armed LEO. Not really what a teacher is suppose to there for.
Just some variables I thougt I would throw in the mix from my perspective.
