A Pragmatic Argument in Favor of Letting Teachers be Armed

By MyLegalHeat.com

This is part two of a five-part article series discussing the merits of, and debunking, arguments in favor of further gun control. You can read article one here.

Preface: This article is intended to make a logic driven argument, supported by evidence and reason, that teachers, faculty and administrators should be allowed to take individual accountability for their safety, and the safety of those in their classrooms. The reality is, short of dispatching with evil there is no good solution to this problem. There are two terms often used when discussing mass shootings, “stop” and “prevent”. Those terms are not synonymous in this context. Prevention of mass shootings is a social science discussion that involves a potentially infinite number of variables. I am not qualified to speak on that topic, therefore I won’t. Stopping mass shootings, however, entails a discussion of how to quickly and decisively end a violent attack on our schools, a much more reactive analysis. In that regard I am qualified to speak, and that is the only topic discussed in this article. I am a college professor. I am a parent of small children who I drop off at school daily. I have hundreds …Read the Rest

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