Schools Defenseless, Teachers Need Guns There have been many school shootings, and many times students, teachers, and staff have been injured or dead. They have nothing to fight back with. So why not give them the one thing that will help them, guns? Teachers should be allowed to have guns in their classrooms, so when a shooter comes into the school they will be able to defend themselves, as well as the students. Teachers are responsible for people’s children. A teacher’s job isn’t only to just…
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School shooting statistics have been on the rise in the past few years. Many schools have hired resource officers for their school and Hugoton High School in Hugoton, Kansas, is one of them. Instead of going through the hassle and expenses of giving guns to teachers, they hired a full-time resource officer. Although teachers having guns would be good defense against criminals, teachers should not be allowed to conceal and carry because many schools have resource officers for these situations with…
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Why teachers should not have guns in school Cruz L. Suarez Marine Military Academy English 1 (H) Mrs. Martinez March 7th, 2024 Why teachers should not have guns in school In recent years, issues about arming teachers in the classroom have led to many problems, arguments, and disputes. Although some people say arming teachers can boost the school's safety, from countless perspectives, no teacher should be allowed to have guns in school for many reasons. One reason is the…
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opinion teachers should be allowed to carry guns in school. Honestly, I think teachers should bring guns to school because you never know what person will come into the school. Someone could come into a school with any kind of weapon, what are you going to do without a gun or weapon. How are you going to protect your students. You have to protect your students somehow. Would a school be safe without guns the answer would be no. If a teacher has the proper training absolutely they should be allowed…
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number of school shootings that occurred in 2023. 365 days of the year. 350 school shootings. Education systems across the nation have strategized precautions to protect themselves from gun violence; most include additional security personnel, cameras, school officers, and security tools. However, a few schools have gone as far as having teachers carry guns on their person while in class. Understandably, we are desperate to stop these attacks, but arming educators with firearms should never be resorted…
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are trying to give school teachers guns. Many tragic events could happen with guns. One big one being that a student could steal the gun or maybe even bring a weapon like a knife to stab the teacher and steal the gun. In many cases some students could create a distraction and others could steal the gun. Or a teacher accidentally sits it down and forgets about it. A teacher at a Pennsylvania Christian school accidently left her loaded pistol in a bathroom, where elementary school children found it…
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A school is a place where you as a parent, teacher or child is expectant to feel safe. No one expects the unexpected to occur. December 14, 2012 marked the deadliest school shooting in US history. On this day at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, 20 children as well as 6 adult lives were taken in this horrific event. Following this event, were several other fatal school shootings, crippling within the past few years in the US. This nation has experienced tragedy after tragedy within the…
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Should Teachers Be Armed? The National Rifle Association (NRA) wants to train and arm all public school teachers and administrators. As the NRA plans, this action would protect students and school faculty who encounters serious danger such as a shootout or an armed intruder. Let’s say the NRA provides proper gun trainer to teachers. It is hard for me to imagine my sweet, elderly, loving second-grade teacher properly using a gun and shooting an armed intruder. Not everyone is capable of properly…
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Every school has more than one way to protect its students against possible threats. For example, police officers make sure that no unauthorized figure enters the school, and the cameras are the eyes of the adults to see if anybody has snuck in drugs or weapons. Unfortunately, the cameras might become hacked to change or erase footage, people can break into the school during the night to hide drugs or weapons and the on campus police officers could get shot. We have seen on TV and in newspapers that…
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Why teachers should not have guns in school Cruz L. Suarez Marine Military Academy English 1 (H) Mrs. Martinez March 7th, 2024 Why teachers should not have guns in school In recent years, issues about arming teachers in the classroom have led to many problems, arguments, and disputes. Although some people say arming teachers can boost the school's safety, from countless perspectives, no teacher should be allowed to have guns in school for many reasons. One reason is the…
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