Support For Armed Teachers Comes From Unexpected Place: Science!

By Tom Knighton

When we talk about armed teachers, anti-gun activists — and even some who are ostensibly pro-gun in most instances — roll their eyes at the notion. They argue that teachers have no business being armed and that they don’t need the added responsibility of a firearm. And those are just the ones being complimentary toward teachers.

Others have argued that teachers will start shooting minority students as soon as they get a chance, as if all teachers are really raging racists ready to start blasting away at people of color.

However, support for the notion comes from a surprising place.

The Chicago Tribune reported last month that armed teachers aren’t such a bad idea after all (emphasis mine).

When President Donald Trump suggested arming teachers would make schools safer, many educators recoiled.

As the first-month anniversary of a mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school is marked Wednesday, the debate has gone nationwide.

“If you had a teacher who was adept at firearms, they could end the attack very quickly,” Trump said last month following a Feb. 14 shooting rampage that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

While some rolled their eyes, a graduate research project at Purdue University’s Homeland …Read the Rest

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