Is Arming Teachers Practical?
3rd June 2023
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
The most obvious response to school shootings is to allow teachers and other employees who are licensed to carry firearms to do so. Would-be mass murderers are drawn to schools largely because they are usually “gun-free zones,” which means the shooter’s gun will be the only one on the scene. But some have questioned whether many teachers would actually be willing to arm themselves, so as to make this a practical solution.
The Rand Corporation conducted a nationwide survey of nearly 1,000 teachers, which is reported on by Catrin Wigfall. Most teachers are liberals these days–no surprise, given the far-left orientation of universities’ education programs and the teachers’ unions. So 54% of Rand’s respondents said they thought arming teachers would make schools less safe.
More to the point, however, 19% of those surveyed said that if they were authorized to bear arms at their school they would do so.
History teaches us that the solution to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, be it a police officer or a public-spirited citizen. All of the handwavium in the Narrative media can’t obscure that simple truth.