Anti-Gun Rhetoric On Armed Teachers Doesn’t Match Reality

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

I understand that the idea of armed teachers is controversial, though I don’t fully understand why. You have to go through a background check to be a teacher and another to buy a gun. The Left is constantly lionizing teachers as unsung heroes who can do no wrong, at least as a group.

Now, we talk about allowing them to carry guns if they so choose and you’d think we were talking about allowing prison inmates to vote or something.

The problem, however, is that many of the arguments against allowing teachers to carry don’t square with reality.

Take this tidbit:

There is absolutely no reason that teachers should ever have guns in the classroom, a place of learning and not combat. Arming teachers is the government’s way of pawning off the responsibility of gun control onto civilians instead of taking initiative and passing laws. It is the government’s responsibility to protect its people, not the teachers’ responsibility to shoot down someone in the event of a school shooter.

This is a common train of thought, the idea that it’s the government’s job to protect people, but it’s not true.

Let’s look at a hypothetical example, for a …Read the Rest

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