I Don't Want Your Gun
The idea of me walking around a classroom with a side arm is funny in a way that it should not be. The thought of me coming to school in a carpool or sitting in a staff meeting of individuals with enough hardware to spontaneously pull off a bank robbery, borders on the absurd. The people that even entertain these thoughts are dangerously delusional and have zero idea about what goes on in a teacher's day, and are basically saying that they would rather plant the seed of an even bigger problem than talk/compromise on a more realistic solution.
Outside of the armed forces and law enforcement can you think of any area where people are subjected to staring at someone with a gun walk around in front of them all day. Despite what movies may show, even in jails corrections officers do not normally walk around armed. Do you truly believe that when armed teachers, en masse, walk into classrooms that these guns will just stay holstered until such times that an armed shooter engages the school.
I've been involved in breaking up fights, I've been threatened with violence on numerous occasions, and I have seen the glasses get squarely punched off a teachers face. I've seen several of my students get jumped by large groups. A gun has been discharged outside of a school that I was working. I have stood back to back with a security guard as we tried to separate two fighting girls that would not let go of each other's hair. Many schools moved to having teachers meet in a communal room for report card parent conferences not because of convenience, but because teachers were being assaulted by parents over their kids grades at times.
Does fire alarm now mean hands on holsters and deployment of SWAT tactics? Have you walked through a school during passing period recently.
A teacher friend of mine the other day said "I have 180 micro-interactions a day. Just based on percentages I'm not going to get all of them right." This conversation had nothing to do with armed teachers btw.
As an aside this argument is not congruent with your mental health argument. Threat of counter violence, as far as I understand psychology, is not an effective counter measure to dealing with mental illness.
Do you truly believe that if people started being expected to carry weapons at your job that things would be the same. Think back to your days in school. Then imagine 20% of your teachers with handguns. #Idontwantyourgun
Good post and your absolutley right. It is absurd to have guns at school, it will only fuel the violence further. I live in auz where guns are not common in the average household. I am glad as it would only make things worse. No gun will protect you by the time a unexpected aggressor shoots at you, most of the time you shot by the time you even have a chance to pull a weopon. Guns are a big problem in my opinion and glad we didnt have guns surrounding us. I have been threatened with a knife when I was a teenager and that was bad enough. Crazy talk allowing teachers to carry a gun, what kind of example is that for the kids.
I agree 100%! Thank you for expressing your opinion as someone who is actually teaching in schools and would be directly effected by this ridiculous idea of arming our school teachers. For the record, I am not anti-gun and I respect each American citizen's constitutional right to bear arms. However, like you said,
And it is the mental health argument that needs our focus. NO ONE in their right mind would go and shoot up a school. No one. That's pretty obvious, but the background information on these shooters have also proven the same point. Most if not all of these mass shooters do, in fact, have diagnosed mental health issues. Many are not getting the help they need and THIS is where we can change things.
We need to destigmatize mental health and start treating mental illness with the respect, care, compassion it deserves. People need help before they get so far lost that they commit horrific acts the ones we keep seeing in this country. It's is just heartbreaking. Thank you again for posting! ❤ Upvoted & Followed ❤
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Totally agree if you're not comfortable with firearms, you absolutely should not be the one who would carry. Maybe there are other teachers that are proficient and maybe they already conceal carry in their life outside of school.
I'm not certain of many teachers proficient in close quarters combat, but I imagine they do exist.
good post
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