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Never understood why Republicans think issuing guns to teachers is a good idea. Letting teachers conceal carry if they want to? Now that's something I think could work. Provided the teachers get some sort of extra certification that proves they're extra responsible and not a nut.
Most teachers are amazing people that I trust completely. I still don't want them to be carrying guns around my kids. For one, there's always the remote possibility that the teacher flips out and uses it in anger on a student or another faculty. Secondly there's the possibility that a student gets their hands on it. The bad things that might happen are far more likely than the slim chance of an active shooter showing up and a teacher actually being able to stop them.
Oh I agree, children are more likely to be killed by lightening then a suicidal person hellbent on taking others with them. There's a reason the news media gleefully shove those events in our faces, they're incredibly rare. The way I personally see it, a teacher is already trusted spend a lot of time with children. And a person with a concealed carry license is trusted, and routinely vetted, to carry a gun at the grocery store or bank or whatever. Not only that, concealed carriers are less likely to commit a crime than cops. If someone is both a teacher and a licensed concealed carrier, and is willing to spend their own time and money proving that they're extra responsible and of sound mind, why not give them the option to take their pistol out of their parked car and keep it on their person while at school? Make a system where individual teachers have to continuously prove they're responsible enough to be trusted with a pistol on school. That would most likely weed out a lot of teachers.
We already "trust" police departments to make one of their least competent cops stand around a school all day with a gun.
I'm not sure where you live, but in my state the requirements for a CCW are ridiculously low. Literally anyone who can legally own a firearm can get one. You don't need to have any training at all. You just have to pass a background check and pay a fee. There is no "routine vetting".
I'd love a source for that. I know it's true that, statistically CCW holders are less likely to commit a crime than the general population. However, it's also true that there are thousands of documented cases of CCW holders using their weapon for murder or suicide (or both) rather than self defense over the last two decades: https://concealedcarrykillers.org/
There is no comprehensive list of instances where a CCW holder actually used their weapon in defense, so we really don't know what the statistics say about likelihood.