Second Opinion

October 05, 2006

Should teachers carry guns?

In the wake of school shootings in Wisconsin, Colorado and Pennsylvania during the last two weeks, a state legislator says he plans to introduce legislation that would allow teachers, principals, administrators and other school personnel to carry concealed weapons.

Do you agree that teachers, principals, administrators should be allowed to carry concealed weapons?

posted by A Second Opinion at 10/05/2006

40 Comments:

  • Hi.
    I have to sides to this story. In small towns such as the one I live in I don't think teachers,principals, etc. should be allowed to carry guns because no one in this school brings or carries guns in school. I also beileve that if you are under 30 years of age you should not be allowed to have a gun even if it is registered. I think in bigger cities, such as Colorado and Pensylavania teachers, principals, etc. should be allowed to carry guns and weapons because students bring weapons and guns to school and hurt people that they don't even know and haven't even given a chance yet. They are so young and all they want is to get a good education and live their lives to the fullest and some kid brings a gun to school and ruins your life, I think that is not fair at all. I think teachers should bring a gun and the students that bring a gun to school and ruin the other person's life should have to have their life ruined even more than it already is.
    -Anna

    By Anonymous Anna, at Friday, October 06, 2006 7:33:00 AM  

  • WeLL I thinK there is to sides to it. I don't understand why in the world someone would come to a school and shoot some people... this is insane. All in all, teachers should be allowed to under certain surcumstances. Most likely, yes.


    ~kAla BrowN~

    By Anonymous ugqt2011, at Friday, October 06, 2006 8:57:00 AM  

  • NO!!! they mite get mad and pull out a gun or sumn!! u never know or there mite be like a drive by n then he mite pull a gun out on him so yea n tehn plus ur not supposed to have guns at school neways so yea thats wat i think

    ♥SARAH

    By Blogger **~_SpOiLeD_4_LiFe_~**, at Friday, October 06, 2006 10:07:00 AM  

  • No i dont think they should. what if a studdent in high school got mad at the teacher an pulled the teachers gun out of his pocket and shot the teacher. people dont think about it but it could happen.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, October 06, 2006 11:02:00 AM  

  • Absoultely! Teachers should be allowed to carry guns. We have had Columbine, Wisconsin, and that little Omish school that have been shot in. If teachers had guns there wouldnt be near as many shootings as there are now. But the teachers, to be allowed to carry the gun, should take a gun safety course and have a background check to make sure that they wouldnt just start shooting at people.
    ~Tyler S.~

    By Anonymous Tyler S., at Friday, October 06, 2006 12:28:00 PM  

  • Teachers shouldn't be able to carry guns. Teachers might not like a student and shoo them or they might "accidently" shoot someone or theirselves.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, October 06, 2006 12:30:00 PM  

  • I think that in really small schools like ours the principal only should be allowed to bring guns to school but in really big schools i think that the proncipals and teachers should be allowed to bring guns to school caouse this is just crazy!!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, October 06, 2006 12:47:00 PM  

  • No way! I don't think that teachers should be able to carry guns in a big school or a small school... only because if you carry a gun your at risk of accidently shooting someone else on accident. I don't think this should be aloud because carrying a gun in a school is plain nutty and, I think every single school, should have a secrutiy center, like from the airports, that way you know if they have any weapons such as guns, knives etc. whether the school has 2000 students or 200 students, I still believe you should have security, just becuase our school has like 175 stduents, anything can happen, you never know, anyways... I think that teachers and stuff shouldn't be able to carry guns! Thats just infulincing kids to do it... they'll be all "hey our teahers can carry guns, we can too yay :D"

    By Anonymous Hillary, at Friday, October 06, 2006 1:07:00 PM  

  • No I don't think it would be that good to carry guns around, i mean, what if one accidently went off.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, October 06, 2006 8:09:00 PM  

  • HECK NO!!!!
    I DON'T WHAT SOME TEACHER GETTING MAD AT ME AND PULLING OUT A GUN AND PUTTING IT IN MY FACE!!!!

    AND IF YOU THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE GUNS AT SCHOOL UR JUST WEIRD AND FREAKEN INSANE!

    By Anonymous B, at Saturday, October 07, 2006 4:13:00 PM  

  • This is a tough one. There's two ways to look at it. Teachers, principles, etc. in a small town, where not much crime goes on, I don't think teachers should be allowed to carry guns and weapons to school. Bigger cities where crimes have been committed in schools and shootings may have gone on, the teachers should be allowed to carry a gun. But think about it. If a student murders someone, why should a teacher punish them by killing the student? What does that teach people? To kill someone if they've done something wrong? That's why this question is a toughie. Teachers should be allowed to stand up for themselves yes, but maybe in a less dangerous way. If a student brings a gun to school and things go too far, maybe the teacher should kill the student. But that's just showing other students to punish people by killing them if they've shot or hurt someone. That's something else to consider. So do I think teachers should carry guns to school? In a place where not much crime goes on, no, but in a bigger area where crimes get committed everyday, yes. The guns should only be used IN HUGE (I MEAN HUGE) EMERGENCIES. Whether the teacher uses it is completely up to them. They have to defend themselves yes, but they also have to consider what they are showing other people/students.

    -April

    By Anonymous April, at Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:00:00 PM  

  • Despite the positive impact that it would likely have on classroom discipline (haha), I find the idea of teachers and administrators carrying firearms to be awful.

    Giving teachers weapons is effectively authorizing them to engage in gun battles in schools. They would have guns to protect themsleves and students from people who might enter the school with guns. We would be telling teachers that we want them to start shooting if faced with a gun.

    Imagine. Your school has teachers with guns. One day you hear gunfire in the school. Now you know there might still be an attacker with a gun in the school, but there would certainly be several teachers, frightened and under pressure to protect the students, moving around the school. And now the police arrive.. more guns are on the scene. Plus the police are not aware of how many guns there are "on the loose" in the school. Under ideal circumstances, guns could make the school safer, but I think that in reality, guns would complicate events of gun violence in schools and often lead to more uncessary deaths.

    Furthermore, the value of teachers with guns as a deterent has to be shaky. People who bring guns to school are not thinking straight. They would not be thinking, "Oh no, I might get hurt. Better not." They might even be enouraged by the fact that the teachers would have guns. It would make their attack more of a challenge - more like a video game.

    The goal is to reduce the number of shots being fired in schools. I don't believe that adding to the number of guns in schools will achieve that goal.

    Mr. Hide's Class

    By Blogger Mr. Hide, at Sunday, October 08, 2006 8:43:00 AM  

  • Hay I think that teachers should not be able to take a gun to school cause you never know when a teacher could be a perve and he could lock some girls in a class room and raip them and mabe even kill them cause you dont really know them.

    By Anonymous cheergurly#11, at Monday, October 09, 2006 10:37:00 AM  

  • I have a comment about why should teachers carry guns in school.What I think is that they should not carry them because it might be dangerous for someone especially a
    student.For example the teacher might not like the student and try to shoot him for no reason.

    By Anonymous karen, at Monday, October 09, 2006 10:39:00 AM  

  • yo yo, whats up I relly dont care if they have guns. It could go ethier way. In one situation it could protect us but in another it could hurt us. I say let the teachers that want to have a gun have them. As tyler s said they shood be made to take a gun safty course and how to handle a real shooting. I dont want to die because some teacher had a gun but didnt no how to use. plus guns arent as bad as kids walking into a school with a bomb straped to their chest.

    By Anonymous Billy Joe, at Monday, October 09, 2006 10:39:00 AM  

  • NO, i dont think that teachers should be able to carry guns around school! One of the reasons is some teacher might decide to go crazy and shoot someone! And another reason is what is the purpose for a teacher to bring a gun to school its not like theres shootings going on every day! I mean theres no point in it! Exccpesially not here at Union Grove!!!

    By Anonymous bandnerd777, at Monday, October 09, 2006 1:10:00 PM  

  • NO, i dont think that teachers should be able to carry guns around school! One of the reasons is some teacher might decide to go crazy and shoot someone! And another reason is what is the purpose for a teacher to bring a gun to school its not like theres shootings going on every day! I mean theres no point in it! Exccpesially not here at Union Grove!!!

    By Anonymous bandnerd777, at Monday, October 09, 2006 1:12:00 PM  

  • No teachers shouldn't be able to have guns, because if a teacher gets made they could kill the students.

    By Anonymous boodroh, at Monday, October 09, 2006 1:15:00 PM  

  • Teachers should not be allowed to carry guns because some can snap and start to shooting at teahers, and students.Also they could start to shoot people.

    By Anonymous Bigboy2011, at Monday, October 09, 2006 1:18:00 PM  

  • No teachers shouldn't be alowed to carry guns at school... Some teachers might be crazy and decide to just right out and murder one of the students....If its illegal for students to have weapons then it should be for teachers...

    By Anonymous cheergurlluvsyew, at Monday, October 09, 2006 1:22:00 PM  

  • No teachers should not be allowed to carry guns. What if a teacher decided to shoot somebody or a student stole the gun or a guy walked in with a gun and forced the teacher to give him their gun. I think the teacher would probably give it up instead of getting shot.

    By Anonymous resas-pices, at Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:49:00 AM  

  • Absolutly NOT. aome kid could decide to go crazy and pull the gun (if the teacher had put it like in a desk or kept it in their pocket they could go up behind them and pull it out) and shoot the teacher.

    By Anonymous ugcheerleader22, at Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:51:00 AM  

  • hay billy joe you need to learn how to spell u dont spell should like shood just to let you know.But i still love you!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:03:00 PM  

  • NO. That's the school's security's job. If a school wants authorized guns on campus, hire a police officer.

    By Anonymous Only_me, at Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:42:00 AM  

  • I belive teachers should carry guns because if someone should threaten the school in school they can take care of the problom and go on with their day

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:32:00 AM  

  • No, im with B on this one,i mean if a teacher gits really mad at a student its possible that he mite shoot sooooo......straight out NO!!!!!!

    By Anonymous The_Dragon, at Monday, October 23, 2006 2:22:00 PM  

  • I think that it is completely madness to leave a professor to carry weapons. Close to the number of accidents that can happen, the number of attacks are very small. The school turns a prison, the professors can do what they want and the student are always afraid of their guns.

    By Anonymous mandu, at Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:38:00 AM  

  • of course not!!! Many accidents could happen and we don´t know how they would react. Guns make people get crazy.

    By Anonymous thierry, at Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:57:00 AM  

  • Maybe, YOU should just ban guns altogether, and you wouldn't get regular school shootings... is that beyond the american state of mind?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, November 27, 2006 4:11:00 PM  

  • NO !!!
    teachers could get really mad at there class n decide to pull it out on the class .. so NO !!
    n if the student got a hold of it .. that wud not be good !!

    NO NO NO

    By Blogger Brooklyn*6*, at Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:16:00 AM  

  • Yes there is TWO sides to this story. But I also believe that people should learn how to spell.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:31:00 PM  

  • Well hounestly i think my teacher math teacher would shoot me and everyone else in there. but yeah i think that teachers should be able to bring guns to school, but onley if like 6 teachers did because if one teacher goese crazy, then the others have to defend the students and the staff. I would NOT have said yes if i hadnt just read the WHOLE THING of the {{{{{Columbine High School massacre)))))) and that would sukkk

    By Anonymous Brandon, at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:20:00 PM  

  • I don't thinks teachers should carry guns in school because they could have in not on safety and a student could pick the gun up and accidentally shoot them selfs or another classmate and seriously hurt them or Kill them.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, April 07, 2008 10:53:00 AM  

  • no i dont think anyone should be allow to have guns in schools b/c if we want to prevent violance in schools maybe we should have more and better security in schools. I think that allowing teachers carry guns in school is a way to trying to cover up the fact that schools r not doing a good job protecting the staff n students. This goes 4 small town schools n big cities.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:32:00 PM  

  • NO!!!
    what if a student finds there gun and then shoots the teachers?
    what happens if the teachers trys to shoot the shooter and ends up hitting the child?
    or what if the a student and teacher fight with the teacher and he ends up pulling out a gun and shooting the student?
    what happens when the shooter sees the teacher has a gun? they are still going to try to shoot the kids!!!
    two wrongs dont make a reght!
    an eye for and eye makes the hole world blind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:38:00 PM  

  • I beleive teachers should be allowed. Of course extinsive training should be done. teachers need to be evaluated of course, and they shoudn't be put into a situation to kill a person its to stop a shooting. A fist fight should be dealt with a different way. If prinicipals and parents di their job we would not have to do this. stop sending these bad behind children to school just to get them out the house. Yes, I beleive everyone and any can change but until that process happens, I want my 3 kids to be safe. PARENTS, monitor your responsibilty, cuz if you notice, you don't the streets will. Then you can monitor them in at their grave site. It starts with the parents. If everyone listens to psychologist this world would be a mess. If you don't discipline your child, they will not have that respect thats suppose to be instilled in them. thats what makes us guardians and not friends.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, November 10, 2008 6:21:00 AM  

  • DMITRY
    YEAH WHY DONT WE GIVE GUNS TO TEACHERS? GREAT FCKUEN IDEA! MAKE IT EASYER FOR INSANE FKUSC TO KILL PEOPLE, NOT ONLY LET THEM COME IN THE SCHOOL, HAVE TEACHERS SERVE THEM GUNS ON THE SILVER PLATTER! HONESTLY HOW HARD WOULD IT BE TO TAKE A GUN FROM A TEACHER? OR IS THERE A SCHOOL WHERE PRISSON GUARDS TEACH? GOD I HATE PEOPLE WHOEVER SAID TEACHER SHOULD HAVE GUNS MAKE ME WANT TO EAT A BULLET GO FLY TO THE MOON OR SOME SIHT UMBD SASES

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, January 19, 2009 9:10:00 PM  

  • YEAH WHY DONT WE GIVE GUNS TO THE MONKEYS AT THE ZOO TOO>?
    IM GONA GO EAT A BULLET NOW.
    people make me wanna heve

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, January 19, 2009 9:12:00 PM  

  • i dont think its right to bring guns at school becase some one can shoot someone they can even die for the shooting that is my opinon

    love brenda

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:37:00 PM  

  • i think they should

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:18:00 AM  

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