Reply #29: I understand the concern of "risking the students lives"... [View All]

by carrying concealed. I think it's a bunch of B.S., but I understand the argument made.

Let's say that the teacher is not armed, and her ex-husband, or a student in the school, burst into her classroom with a knife, or a gun, or even a baseball bat. This ex-husband (or student) goes after the teacher because of the messy divorce (or a bad grade). What happens then?

Are you going to call the police, and let this woman or the other students take their beating, while waiting for the police to arrive? And the police are not just going to come in guns blazing, either. They will have to organize outside first, assess the situation, figure out if this is a hostage situation, how many perpetrators there may be, etc.

However, if this woman is armed, she at least has a chance of protecting herself and/or her fellow students from her ex-husband (or the disgruntled student).