Quote Originally Posted by Atrain
Fair enough. Assuming the teachers carrying are well trained...I also feel that bad guys need to be stopped before they can get inside the school where an exchange of gunfire can happen around kids. Teachers in classrooms carrying guns are not going to be able to do that so it doesn't make it a viable solution to me. A shootout in a classroom full of kids will likely end up in trajedy...especially when the bad guy entering the classroom already has the weapon drawn and the teacher is still holding a piece of chalk.
My thought of it is this: We can't/shouldn't be giving up on school security. I wouldn't want my mother (a retired teacher) being expected to be the schools first line of defense. As someone stated earlier, I agree that security is more of a deterent than a solution, but I think that deterent is needed to keep the shit bags within the student body in line. I'm all for arming the guards as well (I think that anyone that is legally allowed to carry should be allowed to do so).

I also think that schools need to have a warning system. A Denver school that my mother was an administrator at put something simple together for this and it worked very well. Every room had a remote radio in it, as well as all the administrators and security guards. At the first sign of a disturbance, the teachers would know immediately and could act accordingly. My mom's school was shot up numerous times and one couldn't count the number of times an unruley family would cause a problem. This cuts down the likelyhood of the scenario that you posed with the bg in opening the door with a drawn firearm and the teacher with a piece of chalk in his/her hand still.

In my opinion, if a teacher has done what is necessary to obtain a CCW, then they should be allowed to CCW in class. Additional training wouldn't be bad idea, though.