a small pocket of blue in a sea of red.

Like one of the many editorials found in our local Sentinel-Record (affectionately dubbed the Senile-Record by local residents)

That was my first thought, too! What could possibly go wrong?

Go figure...

go figure indeed.

The recoil just about took there heads off.
The only solution to gunners is more guns.
If I were a shooter and knew teachers were armed I'd shoot them first.

Arming teachers? These gun lovers are insane.

.45 automatic pistols and training for all teachers.

In exchange I'll take a wholesale ban on everything that shoots bullets with the word "tactical" in its name.

Sounds fair to me.

Wow they cannot even keep their stupid in a straight line.

The teachers have been denigrated and practically called subhumans where I live, and now they want to arm them. Pretzel-like logic, that.

Dear arm the teachers gun nut,

Your stupidity burns.

then whom can we trust with them?

ones you can hang stuff from. Not a ballistic vest.

It's just a terrible idea. I don't want a bunch of stressed out English majors, fresh off of teaching Moby Dick to start getting idle thoughts when their 3rd period class starts getting out of hand.

Holy shit, that's pure crazy.

After two deaths. The shooter had wanted a lot more.

(No, I don't support "arming teachers", let alone students, before you ask.)

And I realize you are not advocating for that, but I think if we had the ability to arm all teachers and then somehow quantify the number of lives saved vs. the number lost due to the consequences of it, the numbers would lean heavily to the latter.

But personally this is still to raw for me to do an objective risk analysis. Maybe I'll have an idea in a few days