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Teachers packing heat.
A lawmaker in Michigan is taking worries about school safety into his own holster. Rep. David Agema, a Republican from Grand Rapids, has introduced a bill that would allow faculty and staff to carry concealed weapons on school grounds, according to an ABC News report ABC News
The bill specifies they’d only get to pack heat if they already owned the firearm and had proper training on its use. They’d also only be allowed if approved by the principal, who could also carry.
Many educators balked at the proposal, including the Grand Rapids superintendent who told ABC News: “If that’s what we’ve come to, I need to find a new line of work.” Another educator called the proposal “knee jerk” and pointed out that “if you miss, your backstop is other kids.”
Supporters are worried more about the recent school-safety backdrop: Virginia Tech, Lancaster County, Pa., and Colorado’s own Platte Valley and Columbine. Agema told ABC News: “What motivated me is a form of disaster preparedness. To me, it’s about safety for kids first. I just think we have to have something like this if something starts happening with Al Qaeda.”
On first blush, the bill appears loaded with all kinds of potential hazards. There’s a reason schools are made gun-free zones, save for the school resource officer often roaming the grounds. If anything, school districts should put more resources into cops in schools rather than firepower in teachers’ hands. Greeley-Evans School District 6 has roughly a half-dozen resource officers assigned to secondary schools.
I can think of some teachers who wouldn’t mind playing Dirty Harry, and I don’t consider it a good thing.
I had a teacher in junior high who packed wooden ruler and wasn’t afraid to use it. He frequently smacked the desktop of the brazen student who dared goof off in class.
I shudder to think what that “health” teacher might have been capable of if he had a heater in his waistband.
What do you think about allowing teachers and principals to carry concealed weapons in schools?
A lawmaker in Michigan is taking worries about school safety into his own holster. Rep. David Agema, a Republican from Grand Rapids, has introduced a bill that would allow faculty and staff to carry concealed weapons on school grounds, according to an ABC News report ABC News
The bill specifies they’d only get to pack heat if they already owned the firearm and had proper training on its use. They’d also only be allowed if approved by the principal, who could also carry.
Many educators balked at the proposal, including the Grand Rapids superintendent who told ABC News: “If that’s what we’ve come to, I need to find a new line of work.” Another educator called the proposal “knee jerk” and pointed out that “if you miss, your backstop is other kids.”
Supporters are worried more about the recent school-safety backdrop: Virginia Tech, Lancaster County, Pa., and Colorado’s own Platte Valley and Columbine. Agema told ABC News: “What motivated me is a form of disaster preparedness. To me, it’s about safety for kids first. I just think we have to have something like this if something starts happening with Al Qaeda.”
On first blush, the bill appears loaded with all kinds of potential hazards. There’s a reason schools are made gun-free zones, save for the school resource officer often roaming the grounds. If anything, school districts should put more resources into cops in schools rather than firepower in teachers’ hands. Greeley-Evans School District 6 has roughly a half-dozen resource officers assigned to secondary schools.
I can think of some teachers who wouldn’t mind playing Dirty Harry, and I don’t consider it a good thing.
I had a teacher in junior high who packed wooden ruler and wasn’t afraid to use it. He frequently smacked the desktop of the brazen student who dared goof off in class.
I shudder to think what that “health” teacher might have been capable of if he had a heater in his waistband.
What do you think about allowing teachers and principals to carry concealed weapons in schools?
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