Arming Teachers

Should Our Teachers Be Packing?

Well, arming teachers may not do the trick, at least not in every case.

 

But changing our attitudes is very important.  We have altered police attitudes nationwide so that police now engage school threats immediately.  But ours is a nation built on patriots and patriotism.  “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot” does shrink.  The attitude of the whole town must be turned.  We must all learn immediately to engage threats to children, the weak, and the helpless.  We must cease standing idly by while another human being is being abused.  We must learn and know how to engage threats.

 

That’s a pretty personal decision for us.  We must plan ahead and decide what we will do with a given threat.  If you decide to huddle with the children in a safe room, that’s fine with me.  If you vote to have an armed police squad in every school, I’ll support you.  But if you decide that you want either a taser or a 9mm or both locked in a secure place, and are willing to take the training to use whichever you choose, I’m with you all the way. 

 

We need a plan that stops perpetrators from getting into schools to begin with.  If an alert armed teacher on the playground can stop a perpetrator before the perpetrator gets in the building, before the police can possibly get there, I’m all for it.  We need to do something, and we need to do it better, right now.

 

That does not mean that I should force you to pack a Glock against your will.  But both of us need to be active participants, willing and able to engage any enemy.

 

Your weapon of choice might be words.

 

I’ll take the guard job armed with an assault rifle, shotgun, 45, taser, cuffs, club, and uniform, thank you.