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Originally Posted by meritmat
yes yes I agree, but were at a worst case scenario. We have an active shooter and face it, I would say one with mental issues. The target has to be neutralized. Would an armed teacher help? Maybe but that's asking a lot of somebody whos trained to educate people. Security guard? maybe but we all know that costs money. No easy answers
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An armed teacher wouldn’t be an option in my experience. The majority of the teachers I worked with don’t have the personality/disposition to use a gun to neutralize a shooter. It’s just not who they are. I owned guns and shot regularly; as a principal I would have been willing to neutralize a shooter to save kids. But it comes back to dynamics. I certainly wouldn’t have a gun on me all day. If the firearm was in the office, that would be useful about 25% of the day for me. While the kids were in class, I was making my rounds and interacting. Typically, I was in my office sporadically throughout the day but mostly when the kids were not at school yet in the morning or after they had gone home. Guards would be the answer but that makes for a very unfriendly teaching environment. Obviously if my choices were guards vs deaths, I’m taking guards.