Teachers to Carry There was a time when your home and schools were safe places. That is no the case anymore. With school shootings like Sandy Hook and Parkland High, what can we do to protect our children. The only way we can protect our children is to have teachers carrying a concealed weapon at all times. When you go to school, you expect to be safe. You don’t go worried for your life. However, students are being harmed and killed. Simple lock downs don’t work to protect our children. During the
majority of teachers want to be armed with textbooks and computers, not guns,” said Kenneth S. Trump. Bang bang, you’re dead! There have been approximately 387 school shootings since 1992 all resulting in one or more fatalities. Gun control in school ought to be handed to security rather than the teacher. Providing teachers with armed weapons for protection will both increase the chance of bloodshed and fatalities. Therefore Arming teachers can have many disadvantages, for example, not all teachers may be
Kendra Gallos English III H 3/21/18 Gun Control Will Not Solve Anything Guns are given a bad reputation because of the terrors that can be committed by people who want to cause harm. Those who are gun control advocates wish to ban certain weapons without basis, ban certain weapon attachments, and restrict the rights of the second amendment. Gun control supporters base their opinion on statistics about gun violence that use a portion of data that is not about gun violence just to boost the value of
is a growing concern about school shootings, and how we should go about ending this crisis. There have been fourteen school shootings in 2018 alone. This number should scare you. When will we put our foot down and stand up for the parents of the children who live every day knowing that their son or daughter never made it home that dreadful day? The best way correct this hypocrisy is to arm our teachers. One of the biggest concerns about teachers with concealed carry is the training. Training
be higher when a teacher is armed. Teachers, just as much as students, have the potential as well to start a school shooting. Although, teachers would have an advantage over the typical school shooter by starting a school shooting from the inside and not from the outside, since a typical school shooter arrives at a school and is not already there when commencing their rampage. A teacher causing a school shooting would be due to the guns that would have already been inside the school if federal legislation
Connecticut, home. He then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School with the rifle and other guns from his mother’s collection. After shooting the principal and school psychologist, he walked into a first-grade classroom, where he shot and killed the teacher and fifteen of the sixteen students. Only one person in the room survived, a six-year-old girl who played dead until Lanza was gone. Lanza continued his killing spree throughout the school, killing a total of twenty children and six adults, wounding
While discussing the issue of teachers arming themselves in the classroom, one may experience confusion with all the data, articles, and research that has been posted or published on the internet, common social media, and even newspapers and magazines. However, after reading “Teachers with Guns” by Wade Livingston, my standing opinion has been reinforced. Teachers should not be allowed to carry weapons in school, at all. Too many risks are involved with this establishment, and they out-weigh the
paragraph journal, give me your opinion on students being able to carry legal guns on college campuses. Paragraph 1 State your opinion: In my opinion being able to carry legal guns on college campuses is an awful idea and many innocent people can get hurt from it instead of the opposite. Give a piece of evidence to support your opinion on the topic: Police officers and school security systems should provide public safety in school because students and faculty with not much or no expert training
Satirical Essay Guns are a huge problem within the United States and need to be dealt with because too many lives have been lost due to recklessness of the profoundly good-hearted officials in congress . The ability to gain and purchase a lethal weapon is so easy it’s like breathing, effortless, especially in states like Florida where the tragic events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School occurred. With all the hoopla and the controversy and debate surrounded around gun violence a plan needs
Gun should not be abolished Did you know that there is a group of people in the United states that want the Government to strengthen gun laws even though that would violate our constitution right to bear arms. People want to strengthen gun laws to protect the people and try to end terrorism. When come to find out gun laws have been strengthened many times in our nation's history. On Friday, December 14, 2012, cauas wrang out in Newtown Connecticut when an elementary school by the name of Sandy Hook