Arm the teachers

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That's so stupid! Every aggressor would shoot the teacher first.

Does violence in the American society really increase? I cannot know, I'm in Europe. But if it does, arming more people is counterproductive. Guns may help to defend for a while, until everybody is armed. Then everybody will need bigger, faster, more-deadly guns to defend against the people with normal guns. But soon everybody will have those bigger, faster, more-deadly guns... and so on... and so on... but they'll never find out:

What complex of social changes causes the increase of violence in the USA?

As long as nobody seriously tries to find out what is happening in your culture, you cannot do anything. Do you want a whole war equipment around every classroom? Fine, that will teach your children that violence is the solution to everything. Surveillance, control, counter-aggression, surveillance, control, counter-aggression ... the solution to every social/cultural problem, great, that's your future. Have a lot of fun!

Sadly, if you go on like that, one day you might need foreign historians to find out what the h*ll is happening in the American culture right now that makes young people more and more aggressive?

You don't have a problem of more/less guns. You have a complex set of social and cultural problems that nobody wants to see.

I too think arming teachers is a really bad idea, an totally impractical from a suitability standpoint.

However, because of the rise in popularity of school shootings increasing security at schools may be necessary for the time being. Some schools in our area already have local police stationed on the school campuses every day.

I think hiring a couple of uniformed security guards per school that can be funded by local councils or something would be a sensible way to go that may just be one of the only ways that will have any effect. State or Federal police might create a sense of "police state", whereas security guards [whom have the same training] aren't seen as such.

They can sit in their own little station, monitoring approaches and whatnot, and responding to an active threat (each with a personal vest and defensive handgun in addition to possibly having a long arm of some form in a locked safe in said station); it's been shown that confronting these individuals with force can stop them in their tracks and also stop it from becoming worst. They can hopefully contain the threat until the state police and/or whatnot arrive.

It'll create jobs, it'll create genuine safety, and teachers can best focus on teaching rather than worrying about possible combat.

http://newsthump.com/2012/12/15/us-nati ... n-schools/

Why not just ban schools? Makes as much sense!

Any school employee with a CCW should be permitted to carry a concealed handgun on their person.
The idea of frangible bullets is a sound decision as well.
In a nutshell no school should be a "gun free" zone.

I tend to concur with that opinion. How many of those kids would be in therapy, instead of in the morgue, if there had been just one competent armed guard in Sandy Hook school?? I know an armed guard would intimidate me...

...but at the same time I'd feel a hell of a lot better sending my kids to school. I wouldn't be poring through my stack of homeschool materials with renewed determination to make it work, executive functioning deficits or no.

In other thoughts...

http://www.armstrongmywire.com/news/rea ... wed&page=1

They thought I was nuts when I taught my kids, "Get down, get out, get help." Like, "Stop, drop, and roll." They said I was paranoid. They said it was inappropriate. They said I'd scar them for life.

Really?? Three little words. First word: You. Second word: Were. Third word: Right.

The banning schools thing is satire-- but then I hate the school system anyway as I think it diffuses responsibility and weakens the family unit. And I do sadly wonder if this will be the event that persuades my damnfool relatives to help me work out a homeschooling program instead of just squalling that I'm shortchanging the kids by even thinking about it.

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Yes, some schools around here have cops assigned. That is a very good defense as long as police department (or school) budgeting allows for it.
If things get tight that could be the first thing they cut from the budget depending on who's decision it is.

The notion which seems most sensible and obvious to the rest of the world, fewer rather than more guns? No, not an option? More and more guns, that'll fix it?

There's always the possibility that one of those teachers could snap and start killing students. Only one of them would have to snap, and a number of kids would be killed before anyone would be able to get there to stop them. I wouldn't suggest arming teachers with lethal weapons, but maybe tranquilizer dart guns.

I can't see arming teachers as working AT ALL. Perhaps (and that is a very remote perhaps) you could deter one school shooting every 50 years, but at what cost in the way of accidental shootings? When there are guns, accidents happen, just like when there are cars, accidents happen. Not to mention, what about mixed messages to kids?

Security guards are different, but even then I'd want to see statistics.

Didn't start the incident with a school teacher with three weapons in her house, with at least one semi-automatic...

Maybe a metal detector with a guard would be more useful, also blocks people with knives.